Letters to Taoiseach Micheál Martin TD and to Health Minister Jennifer Carroll MacNeill TD, from Dr Giota Mitrou, Executive Director of Research and Policy at World Cancer Research Fund, in support of Ireland’s forthcoming mandatory health warnings labels on alcohol.
Draft text amendment proposals for the Zero Draft of the Political Declaration for the upcoming Fourth High-Level Meeting of the UN General Assembly on the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases and the Promotion of Mental Health and Well-Being from the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC), World Cancer Research Fund International (WCRFI) and McCabe Centre for Law and Cancer, and integrating text proposals from the NCD Alliance
This Constituency Statement was coordinated by the NCD Alliance and supported by the International Society of Paediatric Oncology (SIOP), the Worldwide Hospice Palliative Care Alliance, World Dental Federation (FDI), International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis (ISTH), Sightsavers (The Royal Commonwealth Society for the Blind), Vital Strategies, The International Society of Nephrology (ISN), World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists, Multiple Sclerosis International Federation (MSIF), International Diabetes Federation, HelpAge International, World Cancer Research Fund International, Humatem, Health Technology Assessment International (HTAi), International Pharmaceutical Students’ Federation (IPSF), International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics, the International Society for Quality in Health Care and the World Federation of Hemophilia (WFH).
This Statement was coordinated by the NCD Alliance and supported by PATH, the Royal Commonwealth Society for the Blind (Sightsavers), Vital Strategies, International Federation on Ageing, International Diabetes Federation, Global Health Council, the World Federation of Hemophilia (WFH), the World Hypertension League (WHL), International Psycho-oncology Society, World Cancer Research Fund International and Amref Health Africa.
Statements prepared for the Multi-stakeholder Hearing on the Prevention and Control of Non-communicable Diseases (NCDs) and the Promotion of Mental Health at the United Nations, New York, on:
Statement 1: Tackling the determinants of NCDs and mental health and wellbeing through multisectoral and effective governance and collaborative action.
Statement 2: Reshaping and strengthening health systems and all forms of financing to meet the needs of people living with and at risk of NCDs and mental health conditions.
Prepared May 2025.
Comments from World Cancer Research Fund on the National Cancer Plan for England, calling for prioritisation on prevention.
Submitted April 2025.
This factsheet outlines how our Recommendation to limit alcohol consumption can be rolled out at a population level. It expands advice in our Policy blueprint for cancer prevention, which combines evidence on cancer risk – our Cancer Prevention Recommendations – with policy advice for population-level prevention.
Published January 2025.
Our Policy blueprint for cancer prevention brings together World Cancer Research Fund’s expert Cancer Prevention Recommendations with population-level policy advice. It outlines a package of policy recommendations to promote healthy diets and weight, support breastfeeding, increase physical activity, and reduce alcohol consumption. Its goal is to prevent cancer and support healthier environments for people living with and beyond a diagnosis.
Published January 2025.
World Cancer Research Fund Internation’s comments on a working document to strengthen implementation of the WHO’s global strategy to reduce the harmful use of alcohol.
Submitted December 2020.
The breast cancer report and systematic literature review were published in 2017 and revised in 2018.
Joint statement by World Cancer Research Fund International and Union of International Cancer Control to WHO Executive Board 150 on agenda Item 7. Political declaration of the third high-level meeting of the General Assembly on the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases, focusing on the draft action plan (2022-2030) to effectively implement the global alcohol strategy as a public health priority.
Delivered January 2022.
Driving action to prevent cancer and other non-communicable diseases is a policy framework for promoting healthy diets, physical activity and breastfeeding, and reducing alcohol consumption. The policy framework can be used to consider policy actions that will help make environments conducive for people and communities to follow our Cancer Prevention Recommendations.
Published in 2018.