We are a group of research scientists from six continents and 20 countries, including Australia, Belgium, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, China, Colombia, Denmark, India, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Korea, Netherlands, South Africa, Tanzania, the United Kingdom, and the United States that comprise more than two-thirds of the world's population. Our work is focused on understanding, treating, and preventing diabetes.

We have assembled in Seattle to form an international diabetes alliance that will develop powerful and unprecedented research projects - with direct links from research into improved practice - and to seek the funding support required for their implementation.

Our objective is to forge the strongest possible response to the growing "tsunami" of diabetes that is taking the lives of millions each year and threatens the well-being of hundreds of millions more in terms of death, disability, economic costs of increased healthcare and reduced productivity, creating the risks of increased social and economic instability.

October 23, 2007
Seattle, Washington - USA