Constance Ching 程詠樂

“As total scores on Code implementation increased, per capita CMF consumption decreased. Most countries with high CMF consumption had no Code legal measures. Philippines, with the highest Code implementation score, showed the lowest per capita CMF consumption.” @aliveandthrive

Together with @UNICEFargentina & national CSOs @fundeps @fundacion_sanar, @aliveandthrive @fhisolutions is developing a Code Monitoring Digital Platform, with AI Virtual Violations Detector/VIVID to integrate findings with enforcement action tracker. Read: shorturl.at/VuUNO

Spot the pattern - what are the top 3 countries with highest per capita infant formula consumption in this East Asia & Pacific study? What do they have in common? Find out more frontiersin.org/journals/pedia…

NEW PUBLICATION: Implementation of the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes and maternity protection: correlations with commercial milk formula consumption in East Asia and the Pacific. @fhi360 @syd_health @FrontPediatrics frontiersin.org/journals/pedia…

Impact of Code implementation & maternity policy on improving breastfeeding/reducing BMS (CMF) use is crucial - however it has never been statistically proven. We explored the correlations and here are the outcomes: frontiersin.org/journals/pedia…

@aliveandthrive, with @unicef country offices, adapted the Code Monitoring Digital Platforms (includes an AI detector VIVID) to be implemented in Mexico, Argentina, Laos, and Mongolia, after the Vietnam VIVID prototype, to conduct monitoring of violations on digital platforms.

The side event was organized and supported by government of Brazil, @idecbr, #colansa, @unicef, @ incubatorghai, @ibfanglobal, and @icict_fiocruz. The event was participated by country officials from Bangladesh, Brazil, Mexico, Kenya, and Norway.

On May 21, @aliveandthrive presented VIVID Vietnam prototype, and the Code Monitoring Digital Platforms in Mexico, Argentina, Laos, and Mongolia (in partnership with @UNICEF) at the 78th WHA side event on Monitoring Digital Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes.

Implementing the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes in Australia The WBTiAUS team call on the next Australian government to seize the opp… Source: World Breastfeeding Trends initiative Australia Shared via the Google app share.google/?link=https://…

ILCA advocates for you at the World Health Assembly! This year ILCA has three delegates attending the World Health Assembly in Geneva, 19-27 May. Thanks to our delegates for their work, and look for updates!

@aliveandthrive is honored to be participating in this #WHA side event on Monitoring digital marketing of BMS, and will share some of the findings of our #VIVID AI auto detection. Stay tuned @unicef @fhi360 @fiocruz @ILCA1985 @ColansaLAC @ibfanglobal

👀Panorama tomorrow night investigates ‘the truth about baby food pouches’ 📻📺I’ll be on BBC 5Live at 7.10am, R4 Today at 7.40am & BBC Breakfast at 8.30am giving my views informed by our work on commercial baby & toddler foods #KidsAreSweetEnough #EndExploitativeMarketing

Maternal & Infant Nutrition & Nurture (MAINN) conference @Uni_Lancashire - Constance Ching presenting on using digital technologies to monitor inappropriate marketing & other tools @aliveandthrive @fhi360 have worked on to protect child health @CONSTANCECHING4 @MathisenRoger

🎉 It's not a dream! The Ministry of Education of Mexico has announced that starting March 29, #junkfood will be banned in schools! 🏫🛑✋🏼🤯🥤🌭🍪🍭🍫🥤 After more than a decade, this month marks the implementation of a vital government policy aimed at preventing obesity,…

This month marks 140 years since Western powers sidelined Africans and carved up ‘ownership’ of the continent among themselves. So what happened at the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885? aje.io/j7nzwx

VIVID utilizes deep-learning algorithms to detect online Code violations -its human supervised machine learning ensures human participation in monitoring @KBackholer @PhilBakerNZ @MathisenRoger @Duong95462326 @strongerlinh @CONSTANCECHING4 @aliveandthrive doi.org/10.1111/mcn.13…

@pattirundall @PhilBakerNZ @jbadham @rperezescamilla @SBarquera @Moveribfan @vaguayounicef @CONSTANCECHING4 @MathisenRoger @JuliePSmith1 @kyraberasi

VIVID Viet Nam as an example of using AI innovations to help monitoring & enforcement in "#WHO Restricting digital marketing in the context of tobacco, alcohol, food and beverages, and breast-milk substitutes" iris.who.int/bitstream/hand…

This #WHO document examines how restrictions on digital marketing are implemented by governments, describes challenges and provides policy options and approaches that governments can adopt, including using AI (VIVID) to monitor and help enforcement: iris.who.int/bitstream/hand…

Digital marketing is the new easy frontier for formula companies. In around six months the #VirtualViolationsDetector found almost 3800 entries of breaches to the #WHOCode in Australia. corporateaccountabilitytool.org/vividreport @aliveandthrive @CATCH_Tool @CONSTANCECHING4