This case study for international policymakers and advocates shares key learnings, insights, barriers and enablers from World Cancer Research Fund’s June 2025 Cancer Prevention Action Week campaign, which raised awareness of the link between alcohol and cancer and called for a National Alcohol Strategy for England.

Response from World Cancer Research Fund to the UK government’s consultation on the proposal to ban the sale of high-caffeine energy drinks to children and young people, outlining our support for the policy. Submitted November 2025.

Response from World Cancer Research Fund to the UK government’s call for evidence on reforms to the licensing system, setting out our opposition to the proposed changes. Submitted November 2025.

Response from World Cancer Research Fund ahead of the UK Autumn Budget 2025, in support of an alcohol duty, minimum unit pricing, expanded soft drinks industry levy and uplifted public health grant. Submitted October 2025.

Our response to the consultation in Wales around the potential introduction of alcohol Minimum Unit Pricing. Submitted September 2025.

Statement prepared for the UN High-Level Meeting on the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases and the Promotion of Mental Health by World Cancer Research Fund International.

Prepared September 2025.

World Cancer Research Fund’s written evidence to the UK House of Commons Health and Social Care Select Committee for their inquiry on food and weight management. Submitted August 2025.

The MOVING policy framework was developed to help governments understand how to promote physical activity. It was developed in 2018 as part of our involvement in the EU’s CO-CREATE project.

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.

The NOURISHING policy framework is designed to support governments to promote healthy diets, and reduce obesity and non-communicable diseases such as cancer. It was developed in 2013.

The NOURISHING framework was translated into Spanish in 2018.

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The NOURISHING benchmarking tool was developed as part of the CO-CREATE project to assess national government policy actions on nutrition with reference to evidence-based, aspirational standards. This document details these aspirational standards.

This Constituency Statement was coordinated by the World Heart Federation and supported by NCD Alliance, Union for International Cancer Control (UICC), Alzheimer’s Disease International, HelpAge International, Humatem, World Stroke Organization, International Alliance of Patients’ Organisations (IAPO), International Society of Nephrology, International Diabetes Federation, World Cancer Research Fund International, International Federation on Ageing (IFA), Global Alliance for Tobacco Control (GATC), and Health Action International.