Blog Archives
Healthy ageing and longevity in Europe: How do we prepare for the 100-year life?
Join the ILC Europe Network at its inaugural meeting to discuss the challenges and opportunities associated with demographic change in Europe. With the European Parliament elections approaching, we want to use our event to establish a set of key priorities and policy recommendations for the 2024-29 Parliament and Commission.
13th December 2023
ILC Global Alliance holds meeting in Tokyo, facilitated by ILC Japan
On 16 and 17 October 2023, the ILC Global Alliance held a meeting in Tokyo, Japan, co-chaired by Julie Byles and Margaret Gilles. The attendees included representatives from ILCs in Australia, Canada, Singapore, South Africa, the UK, and the USA as well as the Secretariat.
16 and 17 October 2023
ILC South Africa visits ILC Singapore
In June / July this year, Prof. Jaco Hoffman, Prof. Vera Roos and Dr. Rayne Stroebel visited the International Longevity Centre (ILC) in Singapore as members of ILC South Africa. The visit aimed to share common themes around socio-gerontology and to learn from examples in Singapore to establish a community for successful ageing.
June/July 2023
Healthy Ageing and Prevention in Europe: How do European countries compare?
Join the ILC Europe Network for a webinar discussion looking at the state of healthy ageing and prevention across Europe.
13th September 2023
How can we better value life-course vaccination to prevent a future pandemic? At this high-level roundtable alongside the UN High Level Meetings, we will debate on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response, and on Universal Health Coverage.
21st August 2023
ILCs reunited at the IFA’s 16th Global Conference on Ageing in Bangkok
Members of the ILC Global Alliance got together at the IFA’s 16th Global Conference on Ageing in Bangkok, Thailand, last June. Representatives of ILCs from Canada, Singapore, United Kingdom, South Africa and Australia, as well as ILC GA Secretariat Silvia Perel-Levin, attended the conference.
June 2023
ILC Canada's Ovide Mercredi delivers speech at the Townhall meeting of UN High Level Political Forum
In the forum moderated by HLPF Chair Lachezara Stoeva, President, UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), Ovide Mercredi and other participants discussed the effective and inclusive recovery measures to address the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and explore actionable policy guidance for the full implementation of the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs at all levels. Speaking as an older Cree man, who has spent his adult life fighting for the rights of First Nations people, Ovide challenged Member States to commit to real change by addressing the SDG goals in a comprehensive manner.
10 July 2023
Dr. Linda P. Fried, the Director of the Robert N. Butler Columbia Aging Center and the Dean of the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, delivered an Expert Reflection at the event titled "The UN Decade of Healthy Ageing: Health for All by Adding Life to Years." She spoke in her capacity as the Co-chair of the US National Academy of Medicine’s Global Roadmap for Healthy Longevity Commission.
May 2023
G7 high-level side events in Japan: Healthy ageing and prevention
Alongside the G7 Hiroshima Summit 2023 in May, the ILC-UK is organising high-level side events in Japan, one in Niigata, and the other in Hiroshima. Please see the details below for each and how to register.
23rd March 2023
Report launch – Moving the needle: Improving uptake of adult vaccination in Japan
For a wealthy and rapidly ageing country, Japan remains an outlier in terms of attitudes to adult vaccination. Join the ILC-UK for the launch of the Moving the needle report, produced in partnership with Stripe Partners.
23rd March 2023
