I will start, and Phil can pick up.
Certainly there is a need for ongoing research toward a cure. That's the best way to stem this epidemic, but even if we had a cure today, there are millions of people with diabetes, or at sufficiently high risk for diabetes, and we will be treating the condition for a long time. So more effective treatments to manage diabetes and to reduce the risk of the chronic complications....
Eighty percent of the cost of managing diabetes is related to the complications, not just to controlling the blood sugar, so better treatments to prevent and manage those complications are important.
Public health approaches and the understanding of the importance of public health approaches.... We focus on diabetes as a condition where people can self-manage and really take control of their health, but if we go too far down that path, we forget the fact that the environment that people live in is critical. Recent research in Toronto has really looked at the built environment and how that impacts on the risk for diabetes.