Project Unthinkable: A Doctor's Gamble to Save Millions of Lives - Couverture rigide

Yach MD, Derek

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ISBN 10 : 1988025281 ISBN 13 : 9781988025285

Editeur : Barlow Book Publishing inc., 2018

Synopsis

This is the memoir of one of the world's most effective health crusaders and his lifelong campaign to save lives around the globe.  Author Derek Yach started out in a traditional way, at the World Health Organization, where he demonized Big Tobacco for causing the death of millions worldwide. Then, after engineering an international treaty to curb smoking around the world, he crossed the line. In an unorthodox move, he joined Pepsi to help its CEO transform the chips and soda behemoth into a more healthy company. The author's rationale was this: To save tens of millions of lives, you may have to go inside the enemy corporation to help it change. So when Philip Morris International (PMI) announced it was ready to switch from combustible cigarettes to smokeless ones, a move that could save untold lives, Yach made the most audacious gamble of his long career in global public health. Project Unthinkable is a biography embedded in several big themes: - Can a company that causes harm to human health change from the inside? - Can you cross the line and work with the opposition? - Will combustible cigarettes become history?

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Dr. Derek Yach led the development of World Health Organization's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, which imposed strict controls on tobacco throughout the world. After moving to the U.S., he led the global health effort at the Rockefeller Foundation and worked as a Professor of Global Health at Yale University. Then he stunned his colleagues by joining PepsiCo, where he worked with the CEO to turn the chip and soda maker into a healthier business. He served as chief health officer at Vitality, a health and wellness company, and on the Clinton Global Initiative before making his latest move, to lead the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World, funded by Philip Morris International. Its aim is reduce tobacco deaths by eliminating combustible tobacco worldwide. Yach has authored or co-authored over 200 articles on global health in medical journals. Born in South Africa, he is an avid long-distance swimmer and lives in Connecticut, USA.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Barlow Book Publishing inc.
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1988025281
• ISBN 13: 9781988025285
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 216
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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