This system for the mixed Worldwide Diabetes Federation Western Pacific Area (IDF-WPR) Congress, Australasian Diabetes Congress, and Metabolic Ailments 2026 has been introduced, showcasing a complete agenda spanning analysis, scientific care, schooling, coverage and lived expertise.
Hosted by the Australian Diabetes Society (ADS) and the Australian Diabetes Educators Affiliation (ADEA) along with Diabetes Australia, on the Melbourne Conference and Exhibition Centre from 18 to 21 August, the Congress will carry collectively main specialists from throughout Australia, the Western Pacific, and internationally.
That includes an intensive worldwide speaker line‑up, the Congress will discover the newest advances in diabetes and metabolic illness, together with prevention, therapy innovation, expertise, well being methods and fashions of care.
Devoted regional symposia and collaborative periods will spotlight shared challenges and alternatives throughout numerous well being methods all through Asia and the Western Pacific.
Specializing in evidence-based care, the Congress will look at regional challenges to diabetes, together with built-in care fashions in a area with an alarming enhance in diagnoses.
With many near-neighbour nations throughout the Pacific and Asia going through vital challenges in managing the diabetes burden that they’re going through, implementing built-in care fashions can help the well being system to supply efficient and environment friendly administration of diabetes and its issues.
The Congress can even look at the newest developments in expertise, together with insulin pumps and steady glucose screens, and the case for equitable and inexpensive entry to insulin pumps for folks with sort 1 diabetes.
In analysis, a concentrate on numerous views from Australian and worldwide specialists will talk about the newest in diabetes and wider metabolic illness development and take into account learn how to handle one of the urgent well being challenges going through the area.
Importantly, there can be a transparent concentrate on lived expertise, with a devoted group day for folks residing with diabetes, and a Congress stream devoted to focussing on lived expertise, guaranteeing the views of individuals residing with diabetes are built-in alongside scientific, scientific and coverage discussions.
The Congress will showcase the essential function of diabetes schooling in bettering outcomes for folks residing with diabetes and their carers, pals, and household.
Credentialled Diabetes Educators (CDEs) and different well being professionals working in diabetes schooling, analysis and care, play a key management function in serving to folks navigate more and more complicated therapy choices, applied sciences and care pathways whereas empowering them to efficiently self-manage their situation.
By bringing collectively main specialists, rising analysis and lived expertise, the Congress gives a novel alternative for studying, collaboration and the change of concepts that may assist form the way forward for diabetes care throughout our area.
About 215 million adults are at the moment residing with diabetes throughout the Western Pacific Area, with numbers projected to rise to 254 million by 2050. Constructing a talented and sustainable diabetes workforce is crucial to assembly this rising well being problem, and the Congress gives a priceless alternative to share proof, innovation and greatest follow from throughout the area.
Internet hosting the Congress in Melbourne displays the power of Australia’s well being and medical analysis sector and the town’s place as a hub for worldwide collaboration and innovation.
The occasion is being delivered in collaboration with the Melbourne Conference Bureau and with assist from the Victorian Authorities’s Enterprise Occasions and Tourism Australia’s Occasions Bid Fund Program.
The Worldwide Diabetes Federation Western Pacific Area Congress is a biennial occasion held in collaboration with diabetes societies from throughout jap Asia and the Pacific.
Registration and full program particulars can be found at diabetescongress2026.com
| Melanie Grey Morris | Sof Andrikopoulos | Justine Cain |
| CEO, Australian Diabetes Educators Affiliation |
Group CEO, Australian Diabetes Society | Group CEO, Diabetes Australia |
