Dr. Abdul Malik is the co-founder/president of the Maldives NCD Alliance; a member of the NCD Alliance’s “Our Views Our Voices” Global Advisory Committee for People Living with NCDs; a former minister of state for gender, family, and social services in the Maldives; and a former undersecretary for health and social policy at the president’s office.
Opinion: U.N. high-level meetings are considered a rare and important opportunity to raise the political priority of a global health issue; realizing that potential will require a series of reforms.
