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The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), the World Health Organization (WHO) Global Initiative for Childhood Cancer, and the International Initiative for Pediatrics and Nutrition (IIPAN) at Columbia University Irving Medical Center (New York, USA) will convene a stakeholders meeting on recent advances in nutrition and childhood cancer and how these have affected health outcomes globally. The meeting will be held at 17:00–19:00 CEST on 23 May 2025 at the President Wilson Hotel in Geneva, Switzerland. This will be a side event to the World Health Assembly, which is taking place in Geneva on 19–27 May 2025.
IARC will be represented by Dr Zisis Kozlakidis (in person) and Dr Inge Huybrechts (online), who will provide details of the ongoing InterNatIonal CHildhood Leukemia Microbiome/MEtabolome (NICHE) study. Dr Roberta Ortiz, Medical Officer in the WHO Department of Noncommunicable Diseases, Disability, and Rehabilitation, will provide the closing remarks.
The meeting will convene international stakeholders who are dealing with nutrition within the context of chronic diseases, with a focus on challenges, solutions, and opportunities in building institutional capacity (with a region and country focus), clinical education, and improvements in the delivery of care to advance policy initiatives. The participants will include stakeholders from the World Bank, WHO headquarters, the WHO Regional Office for Europe, and the WHO Programmes on Obesity and Noncommunicable Diseases, as well as national experts from Ethiopia, Greece, Kenya, and Portugal.
