Report on the first meeting of the WHO Technical Advisory Group on Gestational Weight Gain (TAG-GWG)

Overview

 The World Health Organization (WHO) initiated a normative process to develop global gestational weight gain (GWG) standards and optimal GWG ranges based on these standards to reduce the risk of maternal and infant adverse outcomes. This project is led by the WHO Departments of Nutrition and Food Safety (NFS) and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Research (SRH), with contributions of the Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health and Ageing (MCA), in partnership with a research group (further referred to as Partner Working Group), including scientists from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Cornell University (USA), and the University of British Columbia (Canada). The project also relies on the expertise of a multidisciplinary Technical Advisory Group on Gestational Weight Gain (TAG-GWG).

This document is the meeting report of the first meeting of the TAG-GWG held virtually on 20 and 22 June 2023. It includes a summary of key topics discussed during the meeting. The meeting objective of the meeting was to introduce the TAG-GWG members to the GWG Steering Committee of the Development of Global GWG Standards project, to present the timeline and tentative three-year workplan, and to discuss key technical details and modus operandi.