Update – call for Abstract now open – 4th International Conference on Cancer Prevention 28-30 October, 2024 in Heidelberg

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For further information please visit the conference registration page here

Call for abstracts is now opened.

Abstracts submitted will be considered by the Program Committee for the poster exhibition and most high-ranking abstracts have the chance be selected for a talk within a session (Oct 29/30).

Abstracts must be submitted via the conference website by 17 May 2024.

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.

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