Stakeholder Collaboration

UEG leads, carries out and engages in a series of public awareness campaigns every year. To ensure that our messages reflect the united voice of the broad community we represent, we actively seek the involvement of our member societies in our key awareness raising activities.

Talking healthy living with WHO

In 2020 we took part in the European Health Forum Gastein with the session ‘‘Science of healthy living: Challenging the status quo to enable healthier choices". Together with Dr Bente Mikklensen, WHO Director on Noncommunicable Diseases, we have discussed the impact of alcohol and unhealthy foods on digestive health, with a focus on the commercial determinants of health and the needed public health interventions. 

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Every November, we partner up with the European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL), European Alcohol Policy Alliance (Eurocare), European Brain Council (EBC), European Liver Patients’ Association (ELPA), European Federation of Associations of Families of People with Mental Illness (EUFAMI) and European Federation of Addiction Societies (EUFAS) in an EU-level awareness campaign providing information on the negative effects of alcohol and calling for greater policy action to address the problems it can cause.

In 2020 the main theme for the Awareness Week on Alcohol related Harm is Alcohol & Cancer. Our aim is to ensure prevention and reduction of alcohol-related harm is included in EU's Beating Cancer Plan.

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With World Digestive Health Day on May 29, we celebrate Digestive Health Month each May with public awareness campaign focused on the prevalence and impact of often poorly understood and underfunded digestive health conditions. 

In 2020 the theme of the Digestive Health Day was the gut microbiome. We have again supported the WGO campaign and launched a new sharable infographic to mark the occasion. 

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On occasion of the European Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, we run an awareness campaign to call attention to the burden of CRC across Europe. We disseminate information on the incidence of colorectal cancer and stress on the need for implementing screening programmes via social media, newsletters campaigns based on videos, leaflets and position papers.

November 21 marks World Pancreatic Cancer Day (WPCD). As knowledge of pancreatic cancer is alarmingly low, hindering the progress in the fight against this cancer, UEG marks WPCD with an awareness campaign.

Througout the day, we provide information about the disease and of its devastating impact, prompting action to change the outlook for patients and families.

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