Aims

This Global Summit is a pivotal event to share and showcase responsive and impactful efforts to #EndDiabetesStigma, and to highlight next steps. Specifically, the Summit will:

  • Present the latest global and local insights, initiatives, and research
  • Share innovative strategies, success stories, and best practice
  • Explore ongoing challenges and opportunities
  • Foster collaborations and partnerships
  • Identify indicators of progress in our collective efforts
  • Highlight pathways to policy, healthcare, and societal change

Background

The Global Summit to End Diabetes Stigma builds upon the international consensus, and related Pledge, to #EndDiabetesStigma.

These unique, community-driven initiatives were developed by an alliance of 51 experts from 18 countries, each bringing diverse lived, research, and clinical experience. While these experts are affiliated with numerous organisations around the world, the consensus and Pledge were created independently, for broad relevance and adoption. The international consensus was published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, January 2024.

Based on international consensus, the Pledge to #EndDiabetesStigma was launched on World Diabetes Day, 14 November 2023.

The Pledge to End Diabetes Stigma has been taken by almost 4,000 individuals and organisations across the world. The Pledge has been translated into 17 languages. Join the movement here!

Catalyst for change

The Global Summit to End Diabetes Stigma is a powerful and logical next step. By sharing insights, research, successes, challenges and opportunities, we can all celebrate and learn from local, national, regional and global experiences, and adapt or scale what works to other areas where similar initiatives are needed.

Coordinated and collective action will amplify impact, drive policy changes, and influence public perceptions of diabetes. Global collaboration will enable equity, ensuring solutions that are inclusive and effective everywhere. The Global Summit will accelerate progress toward a stigma-free future for everyone affected by diabetes.

Who is the Global Summit for?

Delegates attending the Global Summit to End Diabetes Stigma will include:

  • People living with or affected by diabetes stigma
  • Community organisations /not-for-profits
  • Healthcare professionals
  • Industry leads
  • Media professionals and publishers
  • Parliamentarians, policy makers and public health leaders
  • Researchers and educators
  • Retail, travel, hospitality; and all employers

Why attend?

Attending the Global Summit to End Diabetes Stigma is a compelling opportunity to:

  • Align with a transformative cause: demonstrating your organisation’s investment in breaking down global barriers, and enabling innovative solutions, aligning with environmental, social and governance (ESG) goals, making a tangible difference to diabetes communities at local, national, regional and global levels, focused on equity and inclusivity.
  • Access expertise, innovations & strategic collaborations: a unique opportunity to connect with global leaders and local experts, who will share insights and solutions, enabling you to recognise and reduce stigmatising practices.
  • Influence policy & practice: enabling you to contribute to shaping stigma-free policies and practices - building stigma reduction into advocacy, campaigns, communications, national diabetes pathways and policy frameworks - to drive better healthcare and investment outcomes.
  • Expand your organisation’s reach & visibility: The Global Summit is a high-profile, international event, which has the potential to involve participants from 115+ countries, offering your organisation significant exposure to influence and be influenced.
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