Pascal Bovet obtained his MD degree from the University of Lausanne (Switzerland) and a MPH from UCLA (Los Angeles). He is board certified (FMH, Switzerland) in both internal medicine and public health. He is a senior consultant at the division of chronic diseases at the Center for Primary Care and Public Health (Unisanté) and a professor at the Faculty of Medicine of University in Lausanne. He led epidemiological research in the area of NCDs in several countries, including LMICs. He authored or co-authored over 350 publications (http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0242-4259 or ResearcherID F-4477-2011). He is a consultant for NCDs for the Ministry of Health of Seychelles since >30 years and was engaged in a variety of public health interventions there, e.g. development of national NCD strategy, tobacco control legislation, food labeling regulations, fiscal measures related to NCDs as well guidelines for the management of NCDs. He serves as a technical adviser for WHO and a faculty in international courses on NCD epidemiology and prevention.