Launch of WHO Special Issue on Measurements of Healthy Ageing in Ageing and Ageing Oxford Journal on Monday, 30 October 2023
Time: 14:00-17:30 Central European Time
Venue: The event will be streamed from the WHO Geneva Auditorium Z1/Z2
Passcode: ISSUE@23
About the event:
The WHO Special Issue on Measurement of Healthy Ageing in Oxford Journal encompasses 17 scientific manuscripts and offers evidence for valid and reliable measures of intrinsic capacity and functional ability in older persons. At the launch event, authors of the manuscripts featured in the journal's special issue will present concise three-minute talks, provide us with an outlook of the systematic review findings across various domains of healthy ageing and highlight the measurement gaps that require a new healthy ageing research agenda.
Speakers
- Doctor Anshu Banerjee, Director of Maternal, Newborn, Child, Adolescent Health and Ageing, WHO, Switzerland
- Professor Rowan Harwood, Editor of Age and Ageing, Oxford Journal, United Kingdom & Cochair of the WHO TAG4MHA (Technical Advisory Group for Measurement of Healthy Ageing)
- Professor Jean-Yves Reginster, Director of WHO Collaborating Centre for Epidemiology of Musculoskeletal Conditions and Ageing, University of Liege, Belgium
- Regius Professor Rose Anne Kenny, Principal Investigator of The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA), Trinity College Dublin, Ireland