Derek Yach

Derek Yach is a South African analyst of international health care policy. He has worked to address aspects of global health through advocacy and policy development; research and innovation; and directed actions. He has worked within a national setting; at the World Health Organization; within academia and global philanthropy before joining the private sector. He has focused on mentoring, submitting his ideas to peer review and providing advice to international entities focused on global health and increasingly, agriculture.

Biography

Derek Yach was born in 1955 in Cape Town, South Africa. He received his MBChB from the University of Cape Town in 1979, his MPH from Johns Hopkins School of Public Health in 1985, and an honorary DSc from Georgetown University in 2007. He practices long-distance swimming and has completed several Robben Island swims in South Africa; he has also swum the English Channel and raced in the Hudson River.

External links

Selected publications

Blogs

• PepsiCo Leadership blog
• The Huffington Post
• Stakeholder Engagement

Popular media

• How Private Companies are Transforming the Global Public Health Agenda, A New Era For the World Health Organization, by Sonia Shah - Foreign Affairs magazine, November 9, 2011
• Pepsi and Chickpeas: An Interview with Derek Yach - USAID Frontlines, November/December 2011
• PepsiCo to Foster Chickpeas in Ethiopia, by Stephanie Strom - The New York Times, September 20, 2011
• PepsiCo partnership to boost Ethiopian chickpeas, by Martinne Geller - Reuters, September 20, 2011
• A new kind of benevolence, by Louise Lucas - Financial Times, October 24, 2011
• Obesity: An ever heftier problem, by Louise Lucas, Alan Rappeport and Andrew Jack - Financial Times, October 27, 2011.
• Pepsi pledges healthier foods, by Andrew Jack & Jonathan Birchall in New York - Financial Times, March 21, 2010.
• Health: Fat is a financial issue, by Andrew Jack - Financial Times, September 8, 2010

Scientific publications

• Yach D, Khan M, Bradley D, Hargrove R, Kehoe S, Mensah GA. The Role and Challenges of the Food Industry in Addressing Chronic Disease. Globalization and Health; 2010; May 28; 6: 10.
• Yach D, Wipfli H. A Century of smoke. Ann Trop Med Parasitology. 2006 100: 465-479.
• Yach D, Stuckler D, Brownell KD. Epidemiologic and economic consequences of the global epidemics of obesity and diabetes. Nature Medicine. 2006; 12:62-66.
• Yach D, Mckee M, Lopez AD, Novotny T. Improving diet and physical activity: 12 lessons from controlling tobacco. BMJ 2005; 330: 898-900.
• Yach D, Hawkes C, Gould CL, Hofman KJ. The Global Burden of Chronic Diseases: Overcoming Impediments to Prevention and Control. JAMA 2004; 291 (21): 2616-2622.
• Laurent H, Reddy KS, Voute J, Yach D. Wellness in the Workplace: A multi-stakeholder health promoting initiative of the World Economic Forum. American J Health Promotion, 2008; 22: 379-380.
• Quam L, Smith R, Yach D. Rising to the global challenge of chronic diseases. Lancet 2006; 368(9543):1221-3.
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