Programme: Ending Childhood Obesity - Actions through Health and Food Equity

Uppsala Castle

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

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

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