Marcus Stahlhofer

Mr Stahlhofer is an adviser on children’s rights, child health and child nutrition for the Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health, and Department of Nutrition for Health and Development, at the WHO in Geneva, Switzerland. He is responsible for the integration and application of international human rights norms and standards to various aspects of the Organization’s work on child and adolescent health, and provides technical assistance to governments in monitoring the implementation of regulatory standards to reduce the inappropriate promotion of foods for infants and young children. His work ranges from training WHO staff, government officials and health professionals to developing and implementing rights-based guidelines and tools, and strengthening national legal and policy environments to supporting child and adolescent health policies and programmes.