Plenary presentations 2022
The following presentations from Uppsala Health Summit's plenary sessions are available for download. Please find Videos from all sessions here!
Plenary Session 1: Food Systems for Health
- Dr Francesco Branca Director, Nutrition and Food Safety, WHO
Video presentation: Food systems affect health through multiple pathways - Dr Patrizia Fracassi Senior Nutrition and Food Systems Officer, Food and Nutrition Division, FAO
Video presentation: Biodiversity and healthy diets: two levers for transforming agri-food systems in the context of climate change - Dr Namukolo Covic ILRI Director General’s Representative to Ethiopia, International Livestock Research Institute
Video presentation: Food systems transformation - an African perspective of where we are and where to next
Plenary Session 2: Transforming the food system - what does it mean and how does change happen?
- Dr Cass R. Sunstein, Founder and director of the Program on Behavioral Economics and Public Policy at Harvard Law School. Author of Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness (with Richard H. Thaler, 2008)
Video presentation: Noise and Bias - Dr Marie Chantal Messier, Assistant Vice-President and Global Head of Food and Industry Affairs, Nestlé
Video presentation: A private sector perspective on transforming food systems that are good for people and the planet - Dr Tara Garnett, Director, TABLE, Researcher at the Food Climate Research Network, Environmental Change Institute and Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford
Video presentation: Transformation from what? What's really the problem?
Plenary Session 3: Transformations on the ground: policy, participation and ethics
- Dr Corinna Hawkes, Professor of Food Policy, City University of London
Video presentation: How to drive systems change - 6 key policies and participatory practices - Ms Meena Daivadanam, Associate Professor and Senior Researcher, Uppsala University
Video presentation: Operationalising 'leaving no one behind': Some considerations for food environment transformations - Ms Antje Becker-Benton, Managing Director, Behavior Change & Community Health, Save the Children US
Video presentation: Save the Children SBC Approaches: When Culture eats Strategy for Breakfast
Closing Remarks
- Dr Matshidiso Moeti, WHO Regional Director for Africa
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Concluding panel discussion
- Dr Matshidiso Moeti, WHO Regional Director for Africa
- Dr Anders Nordström, Ambassador for Global Health, Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs
- Dr Stefan Swartling Peterson, Professor of Global Transformations for Health, Karolinska Institutet, visiting Professor at Makerere University, Uganda and Uppsala University
- Mr Loay Radwan, Young Leader for Sustainable Development Goals at United Nations
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Last modified: 2023-02-22