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World Health Organization (diabetes programme)

Biography:

Dr Gojka Roglic, MD is the Technical Officer of the World Health Organization diabetes programme, and works in the Department of Chronic Diseases and Health Promotion based in Geneva, Switzerland. She took up the post in 1999 and is responsible for generating and updating global estimates of diabetes, its complications and mortality. Dr Roglic has previously worked as diabetologist and epidemiologist in the University Clinic for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases in Zagreb, Croatia. Dr Roglic participated in several national surveys of diabetes prevalence and multinational studies of diabetes epidemiology (the WHO DIAMOND Study, the EURODIAB IDDM Incidence Study, the EURODIAB IDDM Prospective Complications Study, the EURODIAB IDDM Family Nephropathy Study, the EUCLID Study, the WHO Multinational Study of Vascular Disease in Diabetes).

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