Registration and the call for abstracts have now opened for the Inaugural NCD Child Conference (www.ncdchild.com) to be held in San Francisco from 19-21 March 2012.

Why a Conference on NCDs, Children and Adolescents?

Held exactly six months after the UN High Level Meeting on NCDs, this conference will enable a comprehensive review of the Political Declaration that emerged, and help participants interpret what it means for future efforts to protect children and adolescents from NCDs.

This conference will be an opportunity for a diverse range of stakeholders to collaborate across sectors and disease groups to consider the best ways to protect children and adolescents from NCDs. A call for abstracts across several key themes will ensure opportunities for sharing of successful models and programs and building a solid evidence base for future action. A focus of the conference will be strong outcomes documents and policy briefs that governments and organizations might use to drive further action to protect and promote the rights of children and adolescents to health with respect to NCDs.

This forum will provide a unique opportunity for stakeholders from different NCD disease silos (Cancer, Diabetes, Heart Disease and Asthma at minimum) and sectors (not just health) to connect with and learn from one another. The conference will highlight the centrality of a lifecourse approach to sustainable, scalable efforts to prevent NCDs and will offer a forum for exploring ways that child and adolescent focused NCD efforts might sustainably link with existing platforms (notably HIV and Maternal and Child Health) and MDG targets.

For more information on NCD Child please visit www.ncdchild.org.