Programme: Ending Childhood Obesity - Actions through Health and Food Equity
Uppsala Castle, October 10-12, 2016
Monday, Oct 10
Reception, Uppsala Art Museum at 18:30
Tuesday, 11 Oct (World Obesity Day)
| 08:00 | Registration opens |
| 09:00 |
Opening Session: Welcome address by Professor Anders Malmberg, Deputy Vice-Chancellor Uppsala University, Chairman Uppsala Health Summit Steering Committee Key note address by: Dr Sania Nishtar, Founder and President of Heartfile, Co-Chair of the WHO Commission on Ending Childhood Obesity |
| 09:15 |
Plenum. The urgency of the situation Dr. Douglas Bettcher, Director Dept. for the Prevention of Non-communicable Diseases, WHO Dr. Boyd Swinburn, Professor, The University of Auckland, Director of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Obesity Prevention at Deakin University in Melbourne Dr. Lisa M Powell, Distinguished Professor and Director, University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Public Health |
| 10:15 |
Coffee break |
| 10:45 |
Workshops in parallel: |
| 12:15 |
Lunch |
| 13:15 |
Workshops continue |
| 14.45 |
Coffee break |
| 15:15 | Plenum: Dr.Corinna Hawkes, Professor, City University of London, Co-chair of the Global Nutrition Report, Member of the WHO Comission on Ending Childhood Obesity |
| 15.45 |
Plenum: Lessons learnt from interventions, actions and policy changes Director General Alejandro Calvillo, El Poder del Consumidor Dr. Julie S. Downs, Carnegie Mellon University Dr. Shawn T. Brown, Global Obesity Prevention Center at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health |
| 16:30 | Plenum: Conclusions from workshops |
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17:00 |
Plenum: The political responsibility for ending childhood obesity Mr. Gabriel Wikström, Swedish Minister of Public Health, Health care and Sports |
| 19:00 | Dinner at Norrlands Nation, one of Uppsala’s historic student clubs |
Wednesday, 12 Oct
| 08:45 |
Welcome back |
| 9:00 |
Plenum: Towards a strong evidence base Dr. Claude Marcus, Professor, Karolinska Institutet and Pediatrician, Karolinska University Hospital Dr. Frank Bloomfield, Professor, Director, Liggins Institute, University of Auckland Celina Gorre, Executive Director, Global Alliance for Chronic Disease Dr. Maria Eugenia Bonilla Chacin, Senior Economist in the Health, Nutrition and Population Global Practice, World Bank Dr Garrath D. Williams, Senior Lecturer at Lancaster University |
| 10:20 |
Coffee break |
| 10:50 |
Workshops in parallel: |
| 12:20 |
Lunch |
| 13:15 |
Workshops continue |
| 14:50 |
Coffee break |
| 15:20 |
Plenum: Conclusions from workshops |
| 15:50 |
Plenary session: Time for Action - Let´s Do it! - Dr. Stefan Swartling Peterson, Professor, Chief of Health Section, UNICEF NYHQ |
| 16:10 |
Group discussions in plenary: Take-aways and follow-up |
| 16:45 | Plenum: Closing Remark by Dr. Rikard Landberg, Professor
Chalmers University of Technology and Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala Health Summit Programme Committee Chairman |
| 17:00 |
Announcement of Uppsala Health Summit 2017 theme and closure of summit |