Global Youth-led webinar

When: Monday, 4th March 2024, 14:00 – 15:00 hrs CET 
Where: Register here
Organizers: UNICEF, WHO and the World Obesity Federation 

Background

In 2022, obese have an effect on round 37 million kids underneath 5 globally, and over 390 million kids and adolescents aged 5–19 years had been obese, together with 160 million who had been dwelling with weight problems – 75% of who stay in low- and middle-income nations. This displays a meals system that’s failing to ship nutritious diets for youngsters and well being techniques that fail to handle weight problems previous to people presenting with co-morbidities. In many contexts, this example is additional exacerbated by inequality, together with monetary, social, and structural drivers of weight problems – from pervasive advertising and marketing to poor healthcare protection – which means that many kids around the globe are uncovered to environments that don’t promote well being however as a substitute encourage weight acquire. The prejudice and stigma that many younger individuals affected by obese and weight problems expertise of their day-to-day lives additionally hurt their psychological well being and vanity. 

World Obesity Day – 4 March – is a unified day of motion that requires a cohesive, cross-sector response to the weight problems disaster. This 12 months’s marketing campaign theme is ‘Let’s Talk About Obesity And…‘.  We need to leverage the ability of World Obesity Day to start out cross-cutting conversations. Looking at well being, youth, and the world round us to see how we are able to deal with weight problems collectively. As such, for World Obesity Day 2024, the Global Obesity Coalition – consisting of UNICEF, WHO, and the World Obesity Federation – is internet hosting a worldwide youth-led webinar to unlock conversations about how this subject impacts the lives of younger individuals around the globe and the concrete change younger persons are demanding. The on-line world occasion will function a second for these decision-makers working in UN companies, academia, civil society, and authorities to hear up. 

Objectives

• To obtain a stock-take of the worldwide weight problems disaster, the way it’s affecting younger individuals, and the way younger individuals can become involved with the WHO Acceleration Plan to Stop Obesity 
• To hear and perceive the lived realities of younger individuals in a various set of nations. 
• To examine what it’ll take to spark a worldwide youth motion to handle these realities. 
• To set up what younger persons are asking for, and learn how to ship. 

Chair

• Pierre (Kevin) Cooke, Jr  (he/him) – SUN Lead Group Member, HCC Technical Advisor (Barbados) 

Speakers

• WHO Youth Council: Ishu Kataria (she/her) –Chair, NCDs Working Group, WHO Youth Council & Senior Public Health Researcher, RTI International(India) 
• WHO Experts: Francesco Branca (he/him) – Director of the Department of Nutrition & Food Safety, WHO