European Public Health Conference 2023 (EuroHealthNet plenary)

The 16^th European Public Health Conference 2023 “Our Food, Our Health, Our Earth: A Sustainable Future for Humanity” took place in Dublin, Ireland, between 8-11 November 2023.

EuroHealthNet organised a plenary on “Transitioning to more sustainable food systems that support health and wellbeing” on 9 November 2023 featuring speakers from the World Health Organization, University of London, the EAT Foundation and FEAST2030.

Related to this plenary session, EuroHealthNet and the plenary speakers published an article in EUROHEALTH, the Journal of the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies.

EuroHealthNet also spoke at and was involved in 8 other sessions:

• On Thursday 9th
  • Workshop: Accountability of the European food industry to improve food systems for public and planetary health – Representing the FEAST project
• On Friday 10th
  • Skills building seminar: Leveraging local government policies to improve food systems for public and planetary health –  Representing the FEAST project
  • A participatory approach to identifying vaccine uptake interventions with underserved communities – Representing the RIVER-EU project
  • Best Practice Portals: what is needed for health promotion interventions – Organised by the EuroHealthNet Thematic Working Group on Best Practice Portals
  • How could sustainable public food policies add to curbing childhood obesity in the EU? – Representing Best-ReMaP
  • Improving your elevator pitch: convincing a policymaker in a matter of seconds – organised by EUPHA – European Public Health Association
• On Saturday 11th:
  • Workshop: Evaluating the effectiveness of health promotion and prevention – organised by our Thematic Working Group on Best Practice Portals
  • Round table: Food marketing regulation and civil society mobilisation – organised by EUPHA – European Public Health Association

Find more on the conference here.