European Awareness Week on Alcohol-Related Harm 2020: webinar and fact sheet

The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) is supporting the World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe (WHO/Europe) in promoting the 8th European Awareness Week on Alcohol-Related Harm, which takes place on 16–20 November 2020.

As part of the awareness week, Dr Isabelle Soerjomataram, a scientist in the Section of Cancer Surveillance at IARC, will participate in a webinar on alcohol and cancer hosted by WHO/Europe on Monday 16 November, from 15:00 to 16:00 CET. The focus of the event will be the links between alcohol and cancer and the forthcoming Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan. In conjunction with this event, WHO/Europe is launching a new fact sheet for policy-makers, “Alcohol and cancer in the WHO European Region: An appeal for better prevention”.

The aims of the awareness week and the fact sheet are to increase awareness among individuals and policy-makers of the overwhelming burden of alcohol-related harm in Europe, to propose possible solutions to the problem, and to highlight the need to address this important public health issue through an integrated approach to alcohol policy.

Read the fact sheet “Alcohol and cancer in the WHO European Region: An appeal for better prevention (2020)”

Register in advance for the webinar on alcohol and cancer

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