World Food Safety Day / WHO to Release New Estimates Of The Global Burden Of Foodborne Diseases
02 June 2026, US: There’s just one week to go before World Food Safety Day! This year’s theme, “From burden to solutions – safe food everywhere” focuses on WHO’s upcoming report on data collected and analysed to understand the global burden of foodborne diseases, and the responses that can then be targeted at tackling them.
As part of this year’s campaign, throughout June, WHO will host a series of webinars presenting this new global evidence on the burden of foodborne diseases and the methodologies underpinning these estimates. The main webinar on 4 June 2026 will introduce the latest findings from WHO’s updated estimates, highlighting key trends, major drivers, and implications for public health policy and food systems worldwide.
Building on this overview, six technical deep-dive webinars will be held throughout the month. These sessions will examine critical components of the estimation framework, including source attribution methods and their results, with a focus on how foodborne pathway and specific foods contribute to disease burden. Dedicated webinars will address the burden of disease associated with dietary exposure to chemicals in food, foodborne enteric and parasitic infections, presenting both methodological approaches and key findings across regions.
Additional sessions will cover the computational methods used to generate the estimates, promoting transparency and reproducibility, as well as the economic burden of foodborne diseases, highlighting their societal and health system impacts. The final webinar will focus on translating these estimates into action, the economic burden of foodborne diseases, highlighting their societal and health system impacts and demonstrating how countries can apply the findings to strengthen food safety systems.
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