Our Conferences

Save the date!

Attend our next WPHN Congress!

Mon 10 - Thurs 13 June 2024

University of Westminster, London, England

"Questioning the Solutions: Has the Decade of Nutrition delivered?"

At the close of the UN Decade of Nutrition 2016-2025, the Congress will take a new look at priorities and actions needed now.

Registration

Register for the congress here.

Note: Day registrations and virtual access will also be available options.

Call for community voices

How do we reduce hunger and move towards fulfilling the right to food, nutrition and health for all?

WPHNA and congress partners, the University of Westminster are looking for solutions. As we reach the end of the Decade of Action on Nutrition we need to explore how we can make progress. We want to collect voices from all over the world, particularly from communities struggling to feed their families. We will air these at the Congress and bring then into the conversation and to help design possible solutions.

TELL US

There are two main area we are exploring in relation to food security:

1. Your experiences of feeding yourselves, your family, and your community. 

  • In the last few years, have you experienced any positive changes or challenges?
  • How are you coping with any challenges?
  • Have you had any support? From whom?
  • What one thing would make a difference for you, your family and/or your community?

And/or

2. Your experiences feeding infants in a food insecure situation.

  • Please share your experiences, practices and perceptions on infant and young child feeding, in the last three years?
  • What is working and what is not?
  • What changes do you think would promote more effective infant and young child feeding practices and perceptions?

FORMAT AND DUE DATE

We encourage you to send us your views on the questions above via one of these formats:

  • A brief video of under 3 minutes.
  • An email of up to 250 words.
  • A photo essay or drawing
  • A poster
  • Other

ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS

Please ensure that all participants in the community conversations are given an information sheet or have had it read to them, and that consent has been given to take part. See more details, information sheets and consent forms here.

SUBMISSIONS

Submissions are open until April 30th 2024.

Send us your contribution via the Congress website: click here

MORE INFORMATION

See the full concept note on community conversations available here.

For further information, please contact wphnc2024@westminster.ac.uk or directly to Dr. Regina Murphy Keith (r.keith@westminster.ac.uk)

Our conferences 

As both an advocacy and professional organisation, the WPHNA aims to strengthen the evidence base for effective action to improve nutrition-related health, particularly in the worst off and most disadvantaged populations in the world. Our conferences, meetings and short-courses are key to our efforts to achieve more effective actions.

We set the agendas and ensure our meetings are free from conflict of interest.

Past Congresses

World Nutrition Congress Rio 2012

  • Title: World Nutrition: Knowledge, Policy, Action.
  • Venue: University of Rio de Janeiro
  • Key partners: Abrasco (Brazilian Public Health Association), University of Rio de Janeiro, and Brazilian Ministry of Health.
  • Attendance: 1800 delegates

World Nutrition Cape Town 2016

  • Title: Knowledge, Policy and Action: Addressing the double burden of malnutrition
  • Venue: University of Western Cape, Cape Town South Africa
  • Key partners: University of Western Cape
  • Attendance: 425 delegates

World Public Health Nutrition Congress Brisbane 2020

  • Title: Knowledge, Policy, Action in the Decade of Nutrition 2016-2025’ - What is working or not? Where are the gaps? What needs more effort or change?
  • Venue: Brisbane Convention Centre, Brisbane Australia (pivoted to virtual due to COVID19)
  • Key partners: Public Health Association of Australia
  • Attendance: 595 delegates (355 virtual)

Regional meetings

In addition to our four-yearly international meetings, the Association is also committed to supporting localised events 

  • We held a meeting in September 2014 in Oxford, UK. with a focus on learning lessons from more up-stream actions to affect population health.
  • We co-hosted the 2018 International Conference on Critical Public Health Consequences of the Double Burden of Malnutrition and the Changing Food Environment in South and South East Asia. The aim of this conference, held in Delhi, was to debate important issues that underlie the high levels of both under-nutrition and obesity, especially those related to changes in food systems.

There are many different actors in the fields of public health and nutrition, and the Association recognises that more rapid progress can be made by working together with partners that share our values and ethos. We look to build such partnerships for future actions, including conferences, workshops, and short courses.