The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific Symposium

Bringing together multidisciplinary researchers and clinicians from across the Western Pacific region, this session aims to foster collaboration, shared learning, and collective innovation in knowledge and practice to enhance healthcare delivery and improve patient outcomes. Critical regional challenges, such as the disease burden and region-specific factors impacting prevention, early diagnosis, and management of diabetes and its complications, will be highlighted.

You are invited to visit the journal to read an editorial titled "Diabetes stigma and underdiagnosis: time to change the narrative in the Western Pacific region.” 

In collaboration with the IDF-WPR 2026, ADC 2026 and Metabolic Diseases 2026 Congress, The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific invite original research submissions on innovative strategies to enhance diabetes prevention, diagnosis, management, and stigma-reduction in the region via the journal submission system.  If you wish to present the same original work at the Congress, please also submit an abstract via the Congress Abstract Portal.