Between 17 – 19 September, at the Dusit Thani Hotel in Bangkok, Thailand, World Health Organization Regional office for South-East Asia convened global health experts to discuss non-communicable disease surveillance and monitoring in the Asia-Pacific region, as well as create a new partners forum for sharing information and building consensus to tackle cross-border issues.

ESCAP Stats Division staff attended the meeting to support the creation of the new partners forum, make the case that collecting cause of death data from CRVS systems can strengthen monitoring efforts, as well as publicize development partner activity in the region that is supporting these efforts.