13th European Congress on Global Health, 20-23rd November – Utrecht, Netherlands

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The aim of ECTMIH 2023 is to accelerate the understanding, appreciation, and connections between tropical medicine, global health, and the urgent field of planetary health. It will build on global health traditions to emphasize the importance of health equity and universal health coverage to ensure that all populations – and especially those in low(er) resource settings – have optimal chances of health and wellbeing.

Crosscutting themes supporting this central planetary health focus will include prevention, diagnostic innovation, treatment and care; public and community health; Universal Health Coverage and health equity; health policy and the role of social sciences in global health research.

With this in mind, ECTMIH 2023 will:
• act as a catalyst in the transition and change we need to achieve equitable, just, and sustainable societies
• encourage the active participation of researchers from low and middle income countries, global thinkers, policy and decision makers
• stimulate debate on the role of cooperation agencies and of scientific institutes in all areas of global health

Dr Matta will be presenting an e-poster on Training health promoters on primary and secondary prevention of cancer through the Cancer Prevention Europe multilingual online programme: an impact evaluation

More information can be found here

Publication of systematic reviews

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We are pleased to share with you the articles of two systematic reviews that have been recently published in Frontiers in Digital Health :

– Physical inactivity and/or nutrition in young people, please click here to read more

– Alcohol consumption in young people, please click here to read more

Report launch: physical activity promotion in primary healthcare – 21 June at 14.00-15.00 BST/15.00-16.00 CEST

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WCRF International is pleased to invite you to attend the launch webinar for our 4th Building Momentum report on establishing robust policies to promote physical activity in primary healthcare.

The webinar will take place on Wednesday 21 June at 14.00-15.00 BST/15.00-16.00 CEST

The report addresses key issues and potential barriers to policy adoption and identifies policy processes and components for effective policy design.

The webinar will feature:

    • Presentation of the report by Kendra Chow, Policy & Public Affairs Manager, WCRF International
    • Policies to promote physical activity in primary healthcare in Sweden – Iréne Nilsson Carlsson, Senior Public Health Advisor, National Board of Health and Welfare, Sweden
    • Promoting physical activity in primary healthcare in the UK – Dr. William Bird, GP, CEO and Founder of Intelligent Health, UK
Click here to register to attend

World NCD Congress 25 to 30 June 2023, Toronto, Canada

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The third World Non-Communicable Diseases Congress (WNCD 2023) is scheduled to take place from June 25 to 30, 2023 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre in Toronto, Canada.

The Congress will cover major NCDs (for example, Cardiovascular, Cancer, Diabetes, Respiratory, and Mental Illness) and their risk factors, through the lenses of traditional health sciences (basic research, clinical, epidemiology, physiology, neurosciences, public health, social and behavioural sciences) as well as policy, health promotion and use of modern application tools such as Big Data, Machine Language and Artificial Intelligence, Wearable Technologies to assess NCD, and more.

Dr Matta, Postdoctoral Scientist at the Branch of Environment and Lifestyle Epidemiology will be presenting on the 30th June at 10:30.

Her oral presentation will cover Building capacity for health promoters: a pilot evaluation of the Cancer Prevention Europe multilingual online programme on primary and secondary prevention of cancer.

More information can be found here

Tobacco taxation policies for a smoke free Europe – 7 June 2023

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Fondazione Umberto Veronesi has the pleasure to organize the “Tobacco taxation policies for a smoke free Europe” on Wednesday 7 June, 18.30 – 20.00 CEST at the European Parliament, Brussels.

Dr Joachim Schüz, Branch Head, Section of Environment and Lifestyle Epidemiology – International Agency for Research on Cancer will talk at 19.30 – 19.40.

The event will be streamed using this link