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.
Individual statement to the WHO’s 156th Executive Board meeting on agenda item 14: Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health.
Delivered February 2025.
Individual statement to the WHO’s 156th Executive Board meeting on agenda item 24.3: Global Strategies or action plans that are scheduled to expire within one year. Supported by World Obesity Federation.
Delivered February 2025.
This factsheet outlines how our Recommendation to limit consumption of “fast foods” and other processed foods high in fat, starches and sugars, 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.
This factsheet outlines how our Recommendation to be a healthy weight 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.
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.
This paper examines legislation as a potential tool to advance more effective policy. The paper was prepared for the workshop “Using the law effectively for cancer control in Europe” co-hosted by the McCabe Centre for Law and Cancer and the Norwegian Cancer Society in Oslo, Norway, 6–7 March 2013.
Published 2013.
World Cancer Research Fund’s written evidence to the UK House of Lords Food, Diet and Obesity Select Committee inquiry on food, diet and obesity.
Submitted April 2024.
The breast cancer report and systematic literature review were published in 2017 and revised in 2018.
World Cancer Research Fund International comments on the public consultation on the Norwegian government’s proposal for a new regulation on the prohibition of marketing of certain foods aimed at children and a proposal for a new authority, in the Food Act Section 26 a, to be able to impose fines for violations of the regulation.
Submitted November 2024.
Our general submission to the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) interim market study report on infant and follow-on formula, in which we advocate that infant formula should be treated differently from other consumer goods due to its essential role in infant nutrition, its importance for cancer prevention for both mothers and babies, and the potential long-term consequences of inappropriate use.
Submitted December 2024.