Case studies | GACD

Our case studies highlight where our research evidence is helping to drive the changes necessary to tackle NCDs in different parts of the world, and share insights on what has enabled the project teams to have an impact.

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SMART Mental Health: Using digital and community-based interventions to reach rural populations in India
Mental Health MH23 (2018 — 2022)

Scaling up peer support for mental health recovery globally: The UPSIDES project
Scale Up SU23 (2019 — 2024)

Empowering people with diabetes in South Africa through the GREAT project
Mental Health MH03 (2026 — 2026)

The Friendship Bench: Bridging Zimbabwe’s mental health treatment gap
Scaling up the Community Health Assessment Program in the Philippines (CHAP-P): Preventing hypertension and diabetes through primary healthcare
Scale Up SU16 (2019 — 2022)

Scaling-up community-led diabetes and NCD awareness and response in Bangladesh
Diabetes DM02 (2014 — 2018)

Transforming diabetes management in China through mobile health
Scaling up an mHealth-based school education programme to reduce salt intake in China
Mental Health MH10 (2017 — 2023)

Transforming Mental Health: Standardising the treatment, prevention, and management of depression in China
Cancer CP10 (2021 — 2024)

Assessing the WHO strategy to eliminate Cervical Cancer: Insights from the PRESCRIP-TEC Project
Scale Up SU02 (2019 — 2023)

Strengthening collaboration between healthcare providers and communities for hypertension and diabetes prevention and control in Vietnam
Strengthening collaborative efforts for improved NCD Interventions in Indonesia
Scale Up SU03 (2019 — 2023)

Driving Change: Scaling up an integrated care package for diabetes and hypertension in Cambodia, Slovenia and Belgium
Integrating tobacco cessation within TB programmes in Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Nepal
Lung Diseases LD15 (2016 — 2022)

Co-developing a smoking cessation intervention with Indigenous mothers in Australia
Hypertension HT04 (2012 — 2015)

Reducing salt intake through a school-based education programme in China
Hypertension HT10 (2012 — 2015)

Salt reduction interventions in Pacific Island countries
Mental Health MH27 (2018 — 2022)

Scaling up prevention and management of alcohol-use-disorders and co-morbid depression in Latin America
Diabetes DM17 (2026 — 2020)

A community health worker intervention to reduce cardiovascular disease and complications in the diabetic population of Mexico
Diabetes DM13 (2026 — 2026)

Action for better control of diabetes in Bangladesh
Diabetes DM07 (2015 — 2020)

Self-management for the prevention and management of Type 2 Diabetes
Hypertension HT02 (2012 — 2017)

Hypertension detection, treatment, and control in Colombia and Malaysia
Galvanising the research community in multi-morbidity research
Training upcoming researchers in implementation science

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