Tackling Obesity: Encouraging Adults and Children to Live Healthier Lives
Online 24 August 2022, 9:00am - 3:00pm
Day 1
9:00am
Online Registration
9:30am
Chair’s Welcome Address
Dr Kalwant Sidhu, School Education Lead, Reader in Public Health, King's College London
9:40am
Keynote Address: Understanding, Recognising, And Supporting The Mental Health of People Who Live With Obesity
Jason Halford, President, the European Association for the Study of Obesity (EASO)
10:00am
Keynote Address: Addressing Health Inequality And Obesity - Reflecting On National Food Strategy White Paper
- Understanding the current challenges of tackling obesity at all levels
- Gaining an idea on the limitations of the National Food Strategy White Paper and where the focus should be
- Suggesting the options available to move forward from the obstacles
Dr Jyotsna Vohra, Director of Policy and Public Affairs, Royal Society for Public Health
10:20am
Behavioural Insights Into Obesity: Addressing Challenges, Changing Behaviours
- Presenting Nesta's work on tackling obesity with a focus on altering the food environment through the use of behavioural science and other applied innovation methods
Elspeth Kirkman, Chief Programme Officer, Nesta
10:40am
Questions And Answers Session
11:05am
Break and Networking
11:35am
Keynote Address: Driving Healthier Lives For Children By Implementing Behaviour Change
- Addressing the imbalance of obese children by an obesity centre of excellence that concentrates resources on practice-based research on obesity therapy
- Proposing a holistic weight management services to tackle both physical and psychological challenges among people living with obesity
- Reflecting on the Government’s plan on tackling obesity and how the local authorities can react to it
Dr Paul Gately, Professor of Exercise, Carnegie School of Sport, Leeds Beckett University
11:55am
Fighting Obesity Stigma In Healthcare, Society, And Medical Treatment
- Breaking the myth and prejudice around obesity by looking into how the perception is formed on media, TV, and books
- Unpacking how such prejudice brings multi-levelled effects on individuals, healthcare, system, and treatment planning
- Hearing the practical advice on designing weight management programme and how you can develop the mindset and practice in your organisation
Dr Stephanie de Giorgio, Portfolio GP, Urgent Treatment Centre
12:15pm
Collaborating With Planning, Transport, and Environment Teams To Tackle Childhood Obesity In South Tyneside
- Understanding the background contexts in South Tyneside region by looking into obesity statistics
- Collaborating with the Planning and Environment Departments on the A5 hot food takeaway SPD
- Working around Healthy Schools and insights from our recent HRBQ with students
- Enabling active travel and food sustainability by working closely with the Transport and Environment teams
- Moving forward future plans and next steps to tackle childhood obesity
Ellie Forrester, Public Health Practitioner, South Tyneside Council, and Karen Armstrong, Public Health Practitioner, South Tyneside Council
12:35pm
Questions And Answers Session
12:55pm
Lunch And Networking
2:00pm
Tackling Obesity In The Workplace - Going Beyond Eliminating Stigma
- Shaping the practice in your organisation to make sure it is less stigmatising for people who live with obesity
- Understanding why it is important to tackle obesity in the workplace and how it is embedded in a larger picture as a social determinant
- Looking into what does and doesn't work in an organisation to enable strategic planning and move things further
Dr Zofia Bajorek, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Employment Studies
2:20pm
Case Study: Addressing Adult Obesity Disparities Through The Whole System Approach Project In Surrey
- Extending current Surrey allotment initiative while putting an emphasis on a healthy diet, exercise, developing new skills, and overcoming loneliness
- Conducting peer-led seminars on topics such as a good nutrition and healthy conversation skills for people with Autism and learning disabilities
- Releasing a nation-wide software that promotes healthy eating possibilities for persons with learning difficulties and/or Autism, their carers or family in partnership with JP Morgan
- Working with experts with experience to develop an app to promote activities available across Surrey, created in collaboration with Leonard Cheshire Disability
- Facilitating supported adults to coproduce, create, and disseminate materials for peers with Autism or learning disabilities, social workers, doctors, and other caregivers
Helen Guest, Coproduction Programmes Manager, Active Prospects, Elizabeth Wheeler, Active Living Activities Coordinator, Active Prospects, and Liz Williams, Joint Strategic Commissioning Convener for Learning Disability and Autism, Surrey County Council
2:40pm
Working To Address Obesity In A Diverse Population
- Understanding childhood obesity is a city health improvement priority; intervening early for life long health, wellbeing, and social outcomes
- Using a population health management framework, data, and knowledge about local communities to identify need, we aim to meet people where they are, make it easier to be healthy with culturally appropriate and accessible support and reduce inequalities through targeted services
- Working with research colleagues e.g. at Bradford Inequalities Research Unit, we will add to the evidence of what works and work to sustain and scale up positive work
- Using examples from Reducing Inequalities in Communities (RIC) and Living Well services we share some of the innovative and collaborative work in Bradford to address obesity in our diverse population
Kirsten Foster, Senior Manager – Integration & Change (Health and Care) – Women and Children, NHS Bradford District and Craven CCG, and Collette Brauns, Senior Head of Strategy, Change and Delivery, NHS Bradford District and Craven CCG
3:00pm
Questions And Answers Session
3:20pm
Chair's Summary And Close