MEDIA ADVISORY: Madrid Global Obesity Summit 2026 - The High-Level Session: Call for Action and Press Conference, Wednesday, 28 October

No images? Click here Friday, 23 October 2026  MEDIA ADVISORY  Madrid Global Obesity Summit 2026 The High-Level Session: Call for Action and press conference What: Journalists are invited to join the final day of the Madrid Global Obesity Summit 2026 for the High-Level Session: Call for Action. The programme includes a special address from H.E. Pedro Sánchez, President of the Government of Spain, a high-level panel, and the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding(MoU) between WHO and the Gasol Foundation. The session will be followed by a press conference to provide media remarks and an opportunity for Q&A on the Summit’s outcomes, including the Global Call for Action for Accelerated Action to Stop Obesity and the new partnership between WHO and the Gasol Foundation. When: Wednesday 28 October 2026, All times are in CET below. 09:00 – 09:45 - Journalist registration (Please note that this is the only window for accreditation collection, journalists should arrive during this time.) 10:30 - Official opening 12:45 -  MoU signing with WHO and the Gasol Foundation 13:00–13:30 - Press conference Where: Paseo del Prado, 18, 28014, Madrid, Spain Who: Press conference participants: Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General Dr Mónica García Gómez, Minister of Health of Spain Ms Karen Sealey, World Obesity Federation Pau Gasol, Gasol Foundation Accreditation Any journalist wishing to attend the event should send the following information to prensa@sanidad.gob.es Full name Identification document number, specifying the type of document (passport, national ID card, etc.) Media outlet Media contacts WHO Paul Garwood garwoodp@who.int    Jin Ni  jinn@who.int   Ministry of Health of Spain — prensa@sanidad.gob.es Note to journalists Photo and video content will be available upon request. Please contact jinn@who.int or garwoodp@who.int. The press conference takes place after the closing of the three-day Madrid Global Obesity Summit (26–28 October 2026), co-hosted by the Ministry of Health of Spain and WHO, in collaboration with UNICEF and the World Bank. The Summit is the global stocktaking moment under the WHO Acceleration Plan to Stop Obesity (2022–2030). Latest obesity and overweight data: see the WHO fact sheet. The High-Level Session: Call for Action on 28 October (10:30–13:30 CET) will be livestreamed through WHO Youtube channel. Media contacts: mediainquiries@who.int   You are receiving this NO-REPLY email because you are included on a WHO mail list. If you have been forwarded this update you can click here to subscribe. Journalists may send feedback to WHO Media Team       Share    Tweet    Share    Forward  World Health Organization, Avenue Appia 20, 1202 Geneva 27, Switzerland  Preferences  |  Unsubscribe

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Support the Guardian Support us   Fund independent journalism 23/10/2026 Price of oil rises as fresh wave of selling hits AI stocks Plus: UK consumer confidence, energy costs, Elon Musk Business live Oil prices rise again as global stocks wobble on AI fears; retail sales in Great Britain fall as shoppers cut back Today’s headlines Some of Europe’s highest energy costs expected in Britain this winter UK consumer confidence falls at fastest rate since Covid as cost of living bites Retail sales in Great Britain fall as struggling households cut back Elon Musk reportedly invests $1bn in David Ellison’s Skydance UK to relax post-2008 rules that hold City bosses accountable for wrongdoing Cyprus police investigate financial and tax affairs of ex-Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich Race to rearm: Telford gun hall brings tank barrel production back to the UK Tax online sales more heavily to save high streets, Burnham urged The agenda Oil prices are rising again. Brent crude, the international benchmark for oil, is up 1% this morning to $114 a barrel. Richard Hunter of the broker Interactive Investor said that oil is now up by about 60% since the start of the Iran war, and up about 90% in the year so far. He said: “Widespread reports that the US is considering renewed military strikes on Iran after the midterm elections rather than pursuing a diplomatic route was enough for the price to pop, after what many had considered would be a brief conflict is now in its eighth month.” A fresh wave of selling hit AI stocks around the world overnight, as investors grow increasingly anxious around the sustainability of AI-fuelled returns. The Japanese and South Korean stock markets, which have been buoyed up by their exposure to the AI investment boom, fell before recovering some ground to trade broadly flat on the day. In the US the blue chip S&P 500 fell by 1.2%, its worst performance since July, and the tech-heavy Nasdaq dropped by 2.6%, its biggest drop since June. The Philadelphia semiconductor index fell by a painful 6.7%, also its worst day since June. Retail sales in Great Britain fell by ⁠0.4% in September, compared with expectations of a drop of 0.1%. An unseasonably warm start to the autumn weighed on ⁠online clothing vendors, ⁠and ​supermarkets also reported a drop in volumes, official figures showed. Economists are warning there could be more gloom ahead for retailers as they enter into the crucial final quarter of the year – which includes Christmas. 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