It’s Time to Focus on Health Prevention and Promotion | Derek Yach | TEDxMonteCarlo

Concentrating on promoting health globally, Derek Yach explains just how a change in perspective to condition is needed by rethinking our technique to illness prevention. Yach states that we must redefine the inappropriate, specify what is possible to avoid and that inactiveness is undesirable. The healthy option ought to end up being the easy option.

Dr. Derek Yach is Chief Health Officer at Vitality Group, an organization dedicated to health and wellness promo that is part of Discovery Holdings Ltd

. He is a former Executive Director for Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health at the World Health Organization (WHO).

Derek developed the Centre for Epidemiological Research at the South African Medical Research Council. He has authored or co-authored over 250 write-ups covering the breadth of global health and wellness as well as is consistently mentioned by The Huffington Post, The New York Times and The Economist.

Derek has offered on numerous boards of advisers including those of the Clinton Global Initiative, the World Economic Forum, the Wellcome Trust as well as Cornerstone Capital.

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