Global Burden of Disease Brain Summit

Left to right: Bill Carrol, WFN, Valery Feign, AUT,
Valeria Caso, ESO, Michael Brainin WSO

WSO President Prof Micheal Brainin was in New Zealand alongside global neurology leaders attending the Global Burden of Disease Brain Summit. Hosted by Auckland University, The Lancet-Neurology and the Global Burden of Disease Working Group from Washington University, the event shared the latest GBD data across a range of brain diseases around the world.

Opportunities to collaborate in particular to address the educational and training needs of clinicians in Africa and other developing regions were discussed with the WFN President Bill Carrol. 

• Latest GBD data on the global burden of stroke and other neurological conditions.