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Background
On 2-4 June 2025, The Department of Nutrition and Food Safety of the World Health Organization (WHO) organizes the WHO Discussions on food security health To mark the occasion of World Food Safety Day 2025 and explore the theme of this year campaign: Food security: Science in action.
The series of three webinaries will highlight the way in which science stimulates progress in food security, covering expert advice, estimation of the burden of food diseases, surveillance, laboratory systems and global collaboration and present leading votes from WHO and partners institutions.
Mark your calendars and join us to explore how evidence can result in an impact and understand why science counts at each stage of the food security course.
Advance food security through scientific advice: launch of the Health Talks series for World Food Safety Day 2025
Date: June 2, 2025
Time: 13:00 – 2:00 p.m.
This opening webinar will launch the Health Talks series and will highlight the role of scientific advice in the protection of public health. He will show how who mobilizes scientific expertise through international advisory organizations to transform advanced research into practical advice. Join us to celebrate the global scientific community and WHO leadership in the transformation of science into action for safer food, greater confidence and better health for all.
Impact data: four imperatives to transform information on foods of food in action
Date: June 3, 2025
Time: 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Explore four imperatives to transform information into action to reduce the burden of foods of food origin. This webinar will highlight four imperatives that argue to invest in data on foods of food origin: health, economics, environment and governance. Based on the recent work of the WHO Epidemiology Reference Group (Food Disease Burden Group (FERG), speakers will explore how burden -based decision -making estimates, strengthen surveillance systems and support sustainable action by science.
WHO alliance for food security: advance science in action
Date: June 4, 2025
Time: 13:00 – 2:00 p.m.
The webinar will explore how science can be used to strengthen food security systems, emphasizing the WHO alliance for food security efforts to promote improvement in food disease monitoring, defend a stronger laboratory capacity and support better generation and use of data. It will highlight the work of the three technical working groups of the Alliance, which aim to advance the integration of foods of food origin in national surveillance systems, to promote collaboration and capacity between laboratories and to improve the sharing and awareness of data.
More information: Discussions on food security health are organized by the Community of food systems that. Visit for more details and the full list of presenters.