Meditation, Geomedicine, and Anticipatory Cities: Emerging Issues and Visions of Futures without Non Communicable Diseases.

This report documents and analyzes the results of a 180-minute online participatory futures workshop on the futures of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) in 2031 that took place on Thursday, 25th November 2021. The objectives of the workshop were to engage global health experts in creating possible, probable, and preferred futures of non-communicable diseases. Using the Six Pillars Approach to futures, participants identified emerging issues, and created alternative scenarios, as well as an action plan to achieve the preferred future. As a result of the workshop, participants recognized that business-as-usual futures could be catastrophic for economic, health and human systems; that long-term strategies and policies to address NCDs must embrace equity from the outset, must be judged on planetary as well as human impact, and proactively pay attention to emerging issues. Finally, partnerships would be absolutely essential if we are to save lives and rid societies of NCDs. This paper features images from an animated video produced following the workshop envisioning a world in 2040 in which NCDs have been eradicated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]