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WFPHA is the only worldwide professional society representing and serving the broad field of global public health.

The WFPHA is an international, nongovernmental organization composed of multidisciplinary national public health associations. It is the only worldwide professional society representing and serving the broad field of public health. WFPHA’s mission is to promote and protect global public health. It does this throughout the world by supporting the establishment and organizational development of public health associations and societies of public health, through facilitating and supporting the exchange of information, knowledge and the transfer of skills and resources, and through promoting and undertaking advocacy for public policies, programs and practices that will result in a healthy and productive world. WFPHA is accredited as an NGO in official relations with the World Health Organization (WHO). It collaborates with the WHO to advance the field of public health through the promotion of pro-health policies, strategies and best practices around the world. The Federation also holds consultation status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).

21/10/2026

We're proud to announce our newest Working Group on Migration and Cultural Diversity!

Chaired by Natalia Skogberg and co-chaired by M Sivakami and the secretary is Laura Somersalo-Cavén, this Working Group aims to strengthen health equity for migrant and culturally diverse populations through evidence generation, capacity development, advocacy and policy guidance, and collaborative action across WFPHA member associations, researchers, and practitioners globally.

Its objectives include:

🔹 Advocacy for systematic embedding of equity, diversity, and inclusivity principles in public health practice and policy globally and within WFPHA.

🔹 Strengthening capacity in health equity for migrant and culturally diverse populations through training, webinars, and shared resources.

🔹 Strengthening international partnerships and collaborations among researchers and practitioners working on issues related to health, migration, and cultural diversity

The best part? They're looking to grow their group and are accepting members. If you're interested in joining, then please fill out the form here: https://link.webropol.com/s/WG-migration

20/10/2026

Awareness of HPV vaccination increased significantly among children and parents in Roma communities in Slovakia, following a five-year research project that examined barriers to vaccine uptake.

The RIVER EU initiative worked with Roma health mediators to design and deliver training and interventions for a community that often experiences limited access to healthcare.

Learn more here: https://www.vaccinestoday.eu/stories/increasing-hpv-vaccination-among-roma-communities/

19/10/2026

What if the science is already settled but we're still failing to deliver it fairly?

That's the core challenge of a powerful session from the 18th World Congress on Public Health: HPV Vaccination Strategies and Implementation Progress.

Bin Li shared how China continues to put citizen health front and center, with cervical cancer prevention a key priority under its Healthy China policy. As of November 2025, China has added free HPV vaccination to its lifelong vaccination plan, strengthening the country's broader public health system.

Lwando Maki brought a sobering global lens: persistent HPV drives many of the world's cancer cases, and the real gap isn't scientific; it's equitable delivery. Africa carries the majority of the world's cervical cancer burden, making this clearly an African problem requiring global attention. Women living with HIV are 6x more likely to develop cervical cancer.

But progress is happening: in 2025, South Africa and several other African countries implemented single-dose HPV vaccination. The message was clear: the Global North and Global South need to work together.

We are one world.

Professor Raman Bedi reinforced these points with urgency: the science is settled, and vaccination prevents both pre-cancer and cancer. Yet the most vulnerable populations are hit hardest, deepening existing inequalities. He also challenged the narrative that HPV is "just a women's issue"; only a third of British policy currently includes men, and as a dentist, he's seeing rising rates of oropharyngeal cancers.

His action points included:

🔹 Introduce HPV vaccination into every national program, move to a single dose and to extend coverage beyond young adults to everyone who still needs it.

🔹 Go beyond public health and medical communities; this must be a social movement, engaging schools, faith groups, and communities at large.

His closing message resonated with the room: the science is settled, inequalities shouldn't deepen, and persistence is everything.

As Churchill said, "Keep going!"

18/10/2026

What if we told you one of the most prevalent NCDs on the planet is still being left out of the conversation entirely?

That's the urgent message from a session that challenged how we think about health itself: There Is No Health Without Oral Health — Advancing Integration into NCD and UHC Frameworks.

Sonia Groisman opened with numbers that demand attention: NCDs caused 41 million deaths annually, representing 71% of all global mortality in 2021. Strikingly, 78% of all NCD deaths and 85% of premature NCD deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries.

This burden disproportionately crushes vulnerable groups, including children, older adults, and ethnic minorities, threatening global sustainable development. With over 2.5 billion people affected worldwide, oral disease is a hidden epidemic, among the most prevalent NCDs, yet systemically overlooked in global health priorities.

Prajjwal Pyakurel offered a framework for action at every level:

Upstream: policy and fiscal/regulatory measures on sugar, to***co, and alcohol; food labeling; action on social and commercial determinants of health

Midstream: schools, workplaces, and care settings

Downstream: individual and clinical-level advice on diet, to***co, alcohol, oral hygiene, and health literacy

Abiola Adeniyi highlighted WFPHA's role in keeping oral health on the public health and policy agenda, connecting with other groups on shared priorities, translating research into practical action, and supporting associations in embedding oral health into NCD and UHC work.

If you haven't caught our Oral Health and NCD podcasts, now is the best time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hw04LoMQkvI&list=PL48oRhLSQVD0ejnNzVmNfCxmwdUWLV4FZ

17/10/2026

🔮 What does the future of public health actually look like? And, are we brave enough to build it?

Plenary 8: Imagining the Future of Public Health brought together bold, systems-level thinking from four voices challenging us to move beyond incremental fixes.

Dr. Nathina Pakade asked how we build public health functions into infrastructure, not bolt them on.

Her call: embed the WHO's 12 essential public health functions directly into district health services, connect what happens in people's homes to the broader system, and shift the workforce mindset from program-driven data to local, contextual, lived experience.

Her challenge to the room: move from curative care to genuine prevention and rethink what capability we actually need to reach communities on the ground.

Professor Tolullah Oni posed a bigger question: how can public health shape a more equitable society? Her answer: shift from health systems to systems for health. With Africa's cities growing fastest globally and most of the continent's 2050 infrastructure still unbuilt, what gets designed now will shape equity and climate for decades.

Her three propositions:

1️⃣ Urban infrastructure is health infrastructure, design once for health, climate resilience, and sustainability.

2️⃣ Community intelligence must become collective action, those with lived experience understand the challenge best, and knowing isn't enough without the power to act.

3️⃣ The future needs durable institutions built for discomfort — training the next generation to go beyond technical skills alone.

Alessandro Berionni (Young WFPHA) zoomed in on the gaps holding us back financial gaps entrepreneurs could help solve, and a deeper cultural gap in how we teach.

His provocation: we shouldn't rush to make people "experts," because expertise often means siloed knowledge. Instead, we need critical thinking over content absorption, and public health taught far beyond medical schools in geography, architecture, and beyond to finally break out of its own silo.

16/10/2026

What if the key to reversing the obesity epidemic isn't a single fix, but tackling it across an entire lifetime, starting before birth?

That was the central theme of a compelling session: Preventing Obesity Through a Life-Course Approach — From Women's and Children's Health to Chronic Disease Management at the 18th World Congress on Public Health.

The data tells a striking story.

Between 1982 and 2015, the prevalence of overweight in China rose from 11.4% to 28.7%, while obesity climbed from 2.3% to 12.5%. And the trend isn't slowing; it's expected to keep accelerating.

What's driving it?

Both energy intake and physical activity expenditure have declined among Chinese adults, but not at the same rate. Expenditure is dropping faster than intake, creating a widening energy imbalance that's fueling the continued rise in overweight and obesity.

This is a global story, not a regional one. T**i Yang highlighted that the surge in overweight is affecting children and adolescents in every region worldwide, with low- and middle-income countries seeing the steepest increases in school-age children. Globally, obesity has now overtaken underweight as the dominant form of malnutrition among this age group.

No single intervention will solve this.

Obesity results from multiple personal and environmental factors acting together, with with increased energy intake and reduced expenditure driving weight gain and, in turn, disease burden.

Because obesity-related risk factors exist throughout the life cycle, early life is a critical window for prevention,, and schools stand out as a core setting for childhood intervention.

However, policy is catching up. China's "Healthy China 2030" initiative offers top-level strategic guidance emphasizing prevention first, an upstream focus, a whole-life-cycle approach, and multi-sector collaboration, all aimed at achieving healthy weight goals with greater precision and sustainability.

The bottom line: Obesity shows significant regional and population heterogeneity, which means stratified, targeted interventions aren't optional.

They're essential.

15/10/2026

What does it actually take to build a public health workforce that's ready for the next emergency in every country, not just the well-resourced ones?

That was the question at the heart of a powerful session on the WHO Roadmap for Public Health Workforce Development, featuring the WFPHA-GNAPH Implementation Group.

Here's what stood out:

🔹 Geri posed the foundational question: what resources are actually needed to educate and train the public health workforce? As a group of experts focused on public health education, this is why they stepped up to co-chair the WHO advisory group and the global competency and implementation group with GNAPH, leading the decision behind the World Federation's Global Charter for Public Health, which now gives policymakers a briefing document to shape public health policy.

🔹 Laura brought it back to fundamentals: every country needs a strengthened, multidisciplinary workforce capable of delivering essential public health functions, including emergency preparedness and response.

Her key insight? Competency-based education bridges what public health systems need and what workers must actually be able to do.

🔹 Neil closed with a reminder that resonates far beyond this session: we are stronger together. Common frameworks and shared policies make this work truly global; not a set of isolated national efforts.

The takeaway? Workforce development isn't just a training issue; it's a governance issue, a policy issue, and ultimately, a global solidarity issue.

Read our Global Charter for Public's Health here: https://www.wfpha.org/the-global-charter-for-the-publics-health/

14/10/2026

At the 18th World Congress on Public Health, an interactive workshop titled "From Curriculum to Capability: Developing Entrustable Professional Activities for Public Health Training Programs Across Health Systems" presented a collaborative South Africa-UK exploration of how Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs) can be developed and applied within Public Health (PH) training, led jointly by the South African College of Public Health Medicine (CPHM) and the UK Faculty of Public Health (FPH).

The session opened by noting that EPAs, a competency-based education tool used to translate learning into observable professional work, have so far been shaped mainly by clinical specialties, and that PH poses distinct challenges since competence is exercised at population, system, and policy level rather than through individual patient encounters.

Facilitators outlined the different methodological approaches taken in each country: South Africa has begun drafting PH-specific EPAs following curriculum mapping and is planning a national Delphi process, while the UK is conducting extensive stakeholder engagement to understand how EPAs might reflect real-world PH practice.

Key takeaways include:

🔹 EPAs, well established in clinical training, require substantial adaptation for Public Health, where entrustment must capture population-, system-, and policy-level competence rather than individual patient encounters.

🔹 South Africa and the UK are pursuing parallel but methodologically distinct pathways (curriculum mapping + Delphi process vs. extensive stakeholder engagement), offering a useful comparative model for other countries developing PH-specific EPAs.

🔹 Key structural challenges for PH EPAs include collective/system-embedded practice, political and institutional complexity, and the need for non-clinical evidence to support entrustment decisions.

13/10/2026

Strengthening Capacity for Immunization Advocacy in an Era of Geopolitical Complexity at the 18th World Congress on Public Health.

Some of the most striking insights from this session weren't about vaccines themselves; they were about trust.

Key takeaways:

🔹 Trust isn't built by governments alone. Dominique Kondji Kondji reminded us that populations often distrust government messaging on its own, but credible community leaders and established organizations can bridge that gap when included in real decision-making.

🔹Priorities matter more than we think. Mengistu Asnake made a sharp point: immunization priorities should reflect government priorities, not donor priorities; otherwise, public trust erodes.

🔹Misinformation isn't just ignorance; it's politics. Anna unpacked a hard truth: some politicians undermine vaccination not only from a lack of scientific literacy, but as a deliberate strategy to build political alignment with specific voter bases. Recognizing this (without falling into stereotypes) is essential to countering it responsibly.

🔹Get ahead of the curve. Rather than reactively debunking myths after they've spread, Mengistu argued public health voices need to anticipate misinformation and make accurate, accessible information available before it takes hold, especially for audiences who won't engage with raw data.

🔹 It's a negotiation, not a lecture. Dominique's framing stuck with many in the room: convincing people isn't about forcing scientific facts on them; it's a dialogue that respects existing beliefs while guiding people toward consensus and truth.

The bottom line: immunization advocacy today isn't just a science communication challenge; it's a trust-building, community-engagement, and political-literacy challenge all at once.

12/10/2026

At the 18th World Congress on Public Health, we discussed Health Impact Assessment (HIA) as a policy tool, framing the current push to institutionalize it across East and Southern Africa (ESA).

Rene Loewenson situated this within the broader Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) framework, noting growing political intent to embed HIA in national policies formally.

A key development was the demand emerging from diplomatic channels, referencing the 2025 G20 Johannesburg summit as a catalyst for renewed attention to health considerations in investment and extractive-sector decisions.

Particular emphasis was placed on the underreporting of health impacts associated with critical mineral (CM) extraction, an issue gaining urgency as mining activity expands in support of the energy transition.

The speaker presented a theory of change outlining pathways to institutionalize HIA across ESA countries, along with an assessment of current progress in implementing and reporting HIA processes in the region.

Key takeaways

🔹 There is a growing but still fragile policy window to institutionalize HIA in ESA, partly driven by external economic pressures (G20 diplomacy) rather than purely domestic health agendas.

🔹 Critical mineral extraction represents a significant and currently underreported source of health impact in the region, a gap between extraction-driven economic activity and health accountability.

🔹 A theory-of-change approach structures the institutionalization strategy around three pillars: raising awareness of HIA's value, building multisectoral capacity, and widening the use of HIA evidence in law and policy reform.

🔹 Implementation and reporting of HIA remain uneven across ESA countries, reflecting governance and capacity gaps that the round-table groups were tasked with addressing through concrete, shareable country practices.

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