The latest issue of the ISSOP (International Society for Social Pediatrics and Child Health) e-bulletin is now available and can be downloaded at
https://www.issop.org/2022/09/26/issop-e-bulletin-september-22-no-59/
Please note the following item in the e-bulletin at 3.1:
The problem with the formula milk industry
For decades, the formula milk industry has aggressively marketed their products – despite the negative impact on child and maternal health and human rights, and despite an International Code agreed by all countries to restrict this marketing.
Formula milk companies don’t just target parents. They also systematically target the people parents often trust most – their health professionals – to influence their beliefs, training and advice.
Join WHO, The BMJ, PMNCH and CAP2030 for a webinar series that will expose industry tactics to influence health professionals. Webinar 1 will hear from health professionals about their experiences of this marketing and ideas for how to counter it. Webinar 2 will explore the role of health professional associations in using their voice and power to take a stand.
Webinar 1: An unhealthy influence on health professionals?
Here the link to the video on you tube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THRNOTDe2WM
Webinar 2: Should health professional associations refuse industry funding?
Thursday 29 September 2022 - 2:00-3:15pm BST (London)
Register here: https://bmj.zoom.us/j/83139372057?pwd=bkF1R3FYOEpKNzdSOHdPSEpCdGlNQT09
Don't miss it!
Tony Waterston
CHIFA profile: Tony Waterston is a retired consultant paediatrician who worked mainly in the community in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. He spent 6 years working in Zambia and Zimbabwe and directed the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health Diploma in Palestinian Child Health teaching programme in the occupied Palestinian territories. He was an Editor of the Journal of Tropical Pediatrics and is on the Executive Committee of the International Society for Social Pediatrics. His academic interests are child poverty, advocacy for child health and children's rights. He is currently the lead moderator of CHIFA (HIFA's sister forum on child health and rights). He is also a member of the HIFA Steering Group. Tony.Waterston AT newcastle.ac.uk
