The Food Active 2025 Conference, “A Decade of Action: The Healthy Weight Declaration after 10 Years," will be held online on Tuesday 11th November, 9:30am–1:00pm.
2025 marks ten years since the launch of Food Active’s Healthy Weight Declaration (HWD); established as a mechanism to support local government consider whole systems working to promote healthy weight. The conference will reflect on the declaration’s implementation, evolution, and impact on local policy and population health. Delegates will explore whole-systems approaches to promoting healthy weight, share best practice, and discuss how the HWD supports partnership working. The conference will also address the growing concerns associated with the commercial determinants of health and how the declaration helps local leaders respond to commercial influences and their impact on public health.
The conference will bring together colleagues, including, national partners, local authority officers, system leaders, NHS partners and ICS colleagues, academics, VCFSE organisations and more.
Confirmed speakers:
- Professor Matthew Ashton, Director of Public Health Liverpool City Council & Lead Director of Public Health, Food Active (Chair)
- Dr Arif Rajpura, Director of Public Health, Blackpool Council
- Dr Robin Ireland, Director of Research, Health Equalities Group
- Katherine Brown, Professor of Behaviour Change in Health, University of Hertfordshire
- Cllr Lisa Denson, Cheshire West and Chester Council
- Debbie Watson, Director of Public Health, Warrington Borough Council
- Ceriann Tunnah, Associate Director of Population Health, Cheshire & Merseyside Integrated Care Board
- Ewan Maule, Chief Pharmacist and Director of Medicines and Pharmacy, North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board
- Professor Mark Petticrew, Faculty of Public Health & Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
- Fran Bernhardt, Commercial Determinants Coordinator, Sustain.
- Maria Castellina, director of Impact, Frameworks UK
Keep your eyes peeled for the full agenda coming soon!
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If you have any questions, please email info@foodactive.org.uk
