Dr. Anselm Hennis is director of the Department of Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health, Pan American Health Organization, World Health Organization. He graduated in medicine from the University of the West Indies and qualified in internal medicine in the U.K. Dr. Hennis was also a Wellcome Trust Fellow to the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine where he obtained an M.Sc. and Ph.D. in epidemiology.