Programme 2016: Ending Childhood Obesity - Actions through Health and Food Equity
Monday, October 10
Reception, Uppsala Art Museum at 18:30
Tuesday, October 11 (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:
- Policy tools to drive change
- Migration and the food environment
- The need for food industry actions and innovation
- Healthy eating for school children- today and for life
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, October 12
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:
- Individual and societal responsibilities - ethical dilemmas
- Innovations needed in retail and in the food value chain
- Initiate, manage and evaluate multi-stakeholder interventions: ECHO-zones
- Empowering towards healthy behaviours
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