Healthy Livers, Healthy Lives Coalition
About
A coalition of five liver societies — EASL, AASLD, ALEH, APASL and SOLDA — coordinating global priorities on steatotic liver disease (SLD). Since its founding in 2022, HLHL has run a sustained, multi-year campaign at the World Health Assembly, building the diplomatic and evidence base that led, in May 2026, to the adoption of the first WHO resolution dedicated to steatotic liver disease. That work is now moving into implementation: through the new WHO SLD Collaborating Centre — a tripartite partnership between WHO, Imperial College London and EASL, launched in June 2026 — HLHL is working directly with national governments to translate the resolution into country-level action.
Partner societies
Vision and mission
Our Vision
A world free of liver diseases
Our Mission
Mobilising the evidence, partnerships and political will to act on liver disease.
Our Goal
Reducing the prevalence and burden of liver disease worldwide, with steatotic liver disease recognised and addressed as a core NCD.
Priorities
Expanding effective partnerships on NCDs
Increasing the number of organisations and stakeholders working alongside HLHL on non-communicable disease, and setting an ambitious agenda for the years ahead.Delivering the research roadmap
Turning the roadmap’s priorities into practice — supporting countries and partners with the evidence and strategies needed to implement them.
Advancing global advocacy
Building on the 2026 WHO resolution to secure liver health’s place on the global health policy agenda, working through WHO and the new SLD Collaborating Centre.Shaping Europe’s non-communicable disease policy
Pressing for liver disease to be explicitly integrated into EU NCD policy, closing a gap that current frameworks still leave open.
Steering Committee members
Projects
World Liver Day
International health days play a vital role in raising awareness for major health issues such as chronic liver diseases. World Liver Day, happening annually on 19 April, strives to promote prevention campaigns, improve screening strategies, and increase access to timely and effective treatment.
WHA Side Events
Healthy Livers, Healthy Lives Coalition convenes high-level side events alongside the World Health Assembly, bringing together policymakers, Permanent Mission representatives, WHO officials, clinical experts, patient advocates, and people affected by liver disease.
HLHL advocacy timeline
- October 2022: Creation of the Healthy Livers Healthy Lives Coalition at Wilton Park – the first step to shaping the future of SLD advocacy
- May 2023: First HLHL-led side-event during the World Health Assembly (WHA76): “Together for Better Liver Health: Mobilising Action for Fatty Liver Disease” – publication of the Call to Action to raise the profile of fatty liver disease
- June 2023: Official announcement of the change in nomenclature – “Steatotic Liver Disease” chosen as the overarching term for various aetiologies of steatosis
- January 2024: HLHL-hosted policy webinar: “Steatotic Liver Disease – the missing piece in the NCD puzzle” – development of the goal to have SLD recognised as a core NCD in global health policy
- May 2024: EASL co-hosted a second World Health Assembly (WHA77) side-event with the Global Liver Institute: “Together for Better Liver Health: Amplifying Best Practices Globally” – release of policy report examining success stories worldwide in implementing liver health policies
- May 2025: EASL, AASLD, and GLI co-hosted third liver health side-event at the World Health Assembly (WHA78): “Together for Better Liver Health – Strengthening Public Health Responses to Metabolic Disease” – publication of the Call to Action for Member States of the WHO to formally recognise SLD as a Core NCD and integrate SLD into NCD prevention programmes
- October 2025: Publication: “Closing the Gap: Why Liver Health Must Be Central to the United Nations Political Declaration on Non-Communicable Diseases” – official EASL response to the 2025 UN Political Declaration which failed to explicitly include liver disease
- May 2026: HLHL-hosted side event at the World Health Assembly (WHA79): “From Vision to Action: A Holistic Approach to Metabolic Health and NCD Prevention and Care” – definition of roadmap for embedding metabolic health into global NCD strategies