Announcements
4 June 2026
International Journal of Neonatal Screening Journal Club | Celebrating International Neonatal Screening Day 2026, 23 June 2026
The International Society for Neonatal Screening (ISNS) has provided neonatal screening guidelines for many years and here presents the renewed 2025 General Guidelines for Neonatal Bloodspot Screening. They are intended to provide a framework for screening programs to develop specific policies around all aspects of the newborn screening system, offering the basic set of items for consideration. These guidelines provide trusted anchors to build, expand, or maintain robustly organized neonatal or newborn screening (NBS) programs and a checklist to evaluate and improve the essential elements of those programs. For starting or developing programs, it is a set of elements for which provisions need to be in place and a checklist of items that the screening program should at a minimum have provisions for. These guidelines are meant to be a starting point for interactive discussion, to further improve this document and expand where necessary.
In this webinar, Prof. Dianne Webster will introduce the guidelines and indicate why it is important to have them and how they can be used.
Prior to that, Dr. Peter Schielen will elaborate on some of the basic principles that underly the guidelines, elaborating on the Wilson and Jungner Principles as an ethical framework and “Screening as a system”.
Thereafter, both speakers would like to engage in discussion with the audience, to elaborate on opinions, items that the ISNS still needs to cover and ideas to work on for the future. The ISNS is looking forward to engaging with you.
Keywords: Wilson and Jungner principles; screening guidelines; terminology; screening as a system; screening panels; follow up of screening results; biobanking
Date: 23 June 2026
Time: 9:00 a.m. CEST | 3:00 p.m. CST (Asia) | 5:00 p.m. AEST
Webinar ID: 868 7188 7021
Webinar Secretariat: journal.webinar@mdpi.com
Website: https://sciforum.net/event/IJNS-2
Register now for free!
Program:
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Speaker |
Presentation Title |
Time in CEST |
Time in AEST |
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Prof. Dr. Jim Bonham |
Chair Introduction |
9:00–9:10 a.m. |
5:00–5:10 p.m. |
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Dr. Peter C. J. I. Schielen |
Wilson and Jungner Principles as an Ethical Framework and ‘Screening as a System’ |
9:10–9:35 a.m. |
5:10–5:35 p.m. |
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Prof. Dr. Dianne Webster |
ISNS General Guidelines for Neonatal Bloodspot Screening 2025 |
9:35–10:00 a.m. |
5:35–6:00 p.m. |
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Q&A Session |
10:00–10:20 a.m. |
6:00–6:20 p.m. |
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Prof. Dr. Jim Bonham |
Closing of Webinar |
10:20–10:30 a.m. |
6:20–6:30 p.m. |
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email on how to join the webinar. Registrations with academic institutional email addresses will be prioritized.
Unable to attend? Register anyway, and we will let you know when the recording is available to view.
Webinar Chair and Keynote Speakers:
- Prof. Dr. Jim Bonham, Department of Clinical Chemistry, Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust, UK;
- Dr. Carlo Fumagalli, Office of the International Society for Neonatal Screening, the Netherlands;
- Dr. Susan Campbell, 1 National Newborn Metabolic Screening Programme, LabPlus, Auckland City Hospital, New Zealand; 2 Liggins Institute, University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Relevant Featured Papers:
“Historical Appreciation of World Health Organization’s Public Health Paper-34: Principles and Practice of Screening for Disease, by Max Wilson and Gunnar Jungner”
by Peter C. J. I. Schielen
Int. J. Neonatal Screen. 2025, 11(3), 56; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijns11030056
“ISNS General Guidelines for Neonatal Bloodspot Screening 2025”
by Dianne Webster, Amy Gaviglio, Aysha Habib Khan, Mei Baker, David Cheillan, Layachi Chabraoui, Ghassan Abdoh, Juan Cabello, Roberto Giugliani, Dimitris Platis et al.
Int. J. Neonatal Screen. 2025, 11(2), 45; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijns11020045
