Welcome to the Global Alliance for the Prevention of Obesity and Related Chronic Disease

The International Association for the Study of Obesity, which incorporates the International Obesity Task Force, has spearheaded a new Global Alliance of five principal medical non-governmental organizations formally linked to the World Health Organization (WHO): the World Heart Federation (WHF), International Diabetes Federation (IDF), International Pediatric Association (IPA) and International Union of Nutritional Sciences (IUNS) and IASO itself.

The Alliance has initiated the first stage in developing the first ever global action programme to address the issues surrounding the prevention of obesity, with its amplified risks for diabetes, heart disease and cancers, with a particular focus on the prevention of childhood obesity.

The Global Alliance aims to:

a) Provide coordinated NGO actions to help implement the WHO Global Strategy on Diet, Physical Activity and Health

b) Encourage wider stakeholders to cooperate in unified actions and responses

c)  Develop best-practice prevention models, focusing on the prevention of childhood obesity as an essential first step towards preventing chronic diseases