Richard Skolnik covers noncommunicable diseases as part of his Essentials of Global Health course, originally produced for Yale and offered on Coursera. This session examines heart disease, stroke, cancer, and diabetes, laying out the burden of disease each imposes, the determinants and risk factors behind them, and which populations are most affected. Skolnik closes with a look at injuries as a global health concern. Throughout, he applies a consistent framework, describing the nature of a condition, its scale, its causes, and the cost-effective interventions available to address it, the same structure used earlier in the course for communicable diseases like HIV, TB, and malaria. The lecture is compact and data driven, aimed at giving public health students a working map of chronic disease burden worldwide rather than a deep dive into any single condition.