#FoodActive2019 Conference Hub
On Tuesday 12th November we held our annual conference in Manchester, titled ‘Healthy Weight in all Policies: Two Years On’. In 2017 we held our first ‘Healthy Weight in all Policies’ conference, and this year we are reflected back on the progress made on the obesity agenda and plans for the future, finally considering how healthy weight can be considered across all organisations and departments.
The sold-out conference brought together 100 speakers and delegates from local authorities, public health progressionals, academics, the third sector, NHS, Government departments and more. The event was kindly chaired by Dr Jeanelle de Gruchy, President of the Association for the Directors of Public Health and Director of Public Health for Tameside.
By scrolling down this page, you can either remind yourself of any key presentations and for those of you who were not able to attend, get fully up to speed with everything that was covered across the day by accessing our event report, presentations and gallery.
We would like to say a big thank you to all of our local authority partners for supporting the event, our fantastic line up of speakers and a room full of engaged delegates for making the event a great success.
#FoodActive2019 Gallery
Take a look at all of the photos from speakers, delegates and posters in our gallery below on Flickr.
Thank you to our fantastic photographers Anima Bihi and Michael Viggars for capturing these shots.
Event Report
Take a look at our event report which contains a summary of each presentation, links to download each presentation, a summary of the questions and answers posed at the panel Q&A sessions, details of the poster competition and finally evaluation of the event from the delegates themselves.
PRESENTATIONS
Matthew Ashton
Lead Director of Public Health, Food Active
Food Active: a collaborative approach
Professor Simon Capewell
Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, Institute of Population Health Sciences, University of Liverpool
Population based approaches to preventing non-communicable diseases (NCDs)
Keynote Presentation
Dr Susan Lloyd
Executive Policy Lead, Faculty of Public Health
Healthy weight – the long term plan and beyond
The role of system leadership and healthy weight
Professor Dominic Harrison
Director of Public Health, Blackburn with Darwen
The Pennine Lancashire approach: trailblazing ideas to address inequalities and reduce obesity
Dave Sweeney
Executive Implementation Lead, Cheshire and Merseyside Healthcare Partnership
MECC, a real chance for scale
System-wide approaches to addressing obesity
Dr Duncan Radley
Senior Research Fellow, Leeds Beckett University
The whole systems approach to obesity
Robin Ireland
Director of Research, Food Active
The Local Government Declaration on Healthy Weight: where we are now and where we are heading
Healthy Weight Declaration Impact and Influence Report
Don’t forget to take a look at our NEW Impact and Influence Report, which was officially launched at the conference by our Lead Director of Public Health, Matthew Ashton.
The report showcases how Declaration has had impact in eight different local authorities across England, including: Blackburn with Darwen, Blackpool, Devon, Knowsley, Lancashire, Leeds, Liverpool and Sefton.
Matthew Philpott
Chief Executive, Health Equalities Group
Vicki Barnes
Staff Health and Wellbeing Lead, Northern Devon Healthcare NHS
Impact of the Declaration: what has been achieved at a local level?
Richard Merrifield
Advanced Public Health Practitioner, Devon County Council
Public insights: Healthy Weight Declaration survey findings
Deborah Lowe
Advanced Health Improvement Specialist, Leeds City Council
Emma Strachan
Health Improvement Specialists (Food and Nutrition), Leeds City Council
Dr Arif Rajpura
Director of Public Health, Blackpool Council
What it means to be first? Keeping the momentum and driving change
Katherine Taylor
Public Health Programme Officer, Cumbria County Council
Taking a two-tier Local Authority approach to the Healthy Weight Declaration
Keynote Presentation
Professor Corinna Hawkes
Director of the Centre for Food Policy, City, University of London
Municipal approaches to tackling obesity: perspectives from London and around the world
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