Eileen Gibney

Kremlin Wickramasinghe

Edith Feskens,

Greg Garrett

Sara Lamonaca

Milka Sokolović

Fabrice DeClerck

Anant Jani

Paula Varela

John Mathers

Claire McEvoy

Claire Sulmont-Rossé

Amadeo Amadei

Clare Corish

Francesco Galli

Luc Hagenaars

Amelia Lake

Alba Gil

From Evidence to Action - Connecting Food, Nutrition, and Health

Healthy Diet, Healthy Life (HDHL)

Join us in Brussels for an inspiring day of discussion, learning, and collaboration!

Herman Teirlinckgebouw

If the evidence is clear, how do we as society, collaboratively yet critically explore power relations towards action and policies for healthy and sustainable food environments in Europe?The urgency has never been greater: rising chronic disease, widening inequalities, and climate pressures demand action. At the same time, European policy windows offer timely opportunities to push for change.Initiatives such as the EU Cardiovascular Health Plan (Safe Hearts Plan), Healthier Together – EU NCD Initiative, Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan, and Europe’s climate and environment targets are important levers to drive change, and realise impact.Moving beyond the assumption that change will automatically follow from improved communication of evidence to policy makers, our conference invites participants to explore the wider dynamics shaping the food environment.Our conference aims to contribute to and inform emerging policy windows. Bringing together researchers, policymakers, and innovators to inquire how we can finally move from evidence to action. Together let’s inspire each other to create impact towards healthier, more sustainable, and equitable food environments.

Agenda

Registration & Welcome Coffee

Opening Keynote

Priorities for Changing Food Environments – WHO’s Experience in Addressing Opposition to Policies that Make Europe Healthy

Keynote Speech

What Can We Do Now to Address Resistance to Changing Food Environments in Europe?

Panel 1: The Evidence is Building

Whose Voices Are Heard, Whose Knowledge is Included, and Who Decides? 

Panel 2: Changing the Way We Do (Action) Research and Develop Policy

Health Break

The policy lab will create a space for collective inquiry, cross-disciplinary exchange, and innovation. It will encourage experimentation and imagination, going beyond conventional approaches to moving from evidence to action.
The morning session will focus on jointly identifying levers of change to overcome the power dynamics blocking evidence-based policy making. This session is co-created with EAT, CLEVERFOOD, HDHL Food4Health, and FEAST.


Parallel session: Policy Lab (Part 1) - Navigating Power Relations

This training session for Early Career Researchers, and others interested in upgrading their knowledge and skills, will cover the following elements: (1)Introduction to science policy interface, (2)Introduction to the policy cycle, (3) Barriers and best practice when engaging with policy, and (4) What is the impact/societal relevance of my research?
This session is organised in collaboration with Aarhus University.

Parallel  session: Science-to-Policy Beyond Research Projects & Results

Networking Lunch

The policy lab will create a space for collective inquiry, cross-disciplinary exchange, and innovation. It will encourage experimentation and imagination, going beyond conventional approaches to moving from evidence to action.
The afternoon session will invite participants to jointly identify priority actions/experiments/prototypes to carry out in the next 6-12 months, based on the levers of change identified in the morning session.
This session is co-created with EAT, CLEVERFOOD, HDHL Food4Health, and FEAST.


Parallel session: Policy Lab (Part 2) - Defining Concrete Action Areas

This interactive workshop will introduce the six PREVNUT funded projects showcasing innovative nutritional, sensory, and physical‑activity–based strategies designed to prevent undernutrition in older adults. Participants will gain insight into practical recommendations for conducting research with older populations and discuss how these learnings can inform future clinical studies, product development, and public‑health practice. Hear from project leaders Paula Varela, Nofima & Norwegian University of Life Sciences (EAT4AGE project), Claire McEvoy, Queen’s University Belfast (PROMED-COG project), Francesco Galli, University of Perugia (CHOKO-AGE project), Amedeo Amedei, University of Florence (AMBROSIA project), Claire Sulmont-Rossé , Université Bourgogne Europe, INRAE (FORTIPHY project), and Clare Corish, University College Dublin (APPETITE project).


Parallel session: Strategies to Tackle Undernutrition in Older Adults

This session will delve into some key questions around food and health equity, with on the one hand focusing on how to organise meaningful participation and inclusion of people in research and policy development and on the other hand looking at systemic, commercial drivers that shape people’s realities on the ground. 
Using a real-life research project case, FOODPATH, participants of this session can join interactive dialogues in smaller groups on how inclusive bottom-up research and policy development processes can be organised, how systemic drivers such as commercial determinants come into play and what is needed to implement policies at different levels, leading to more equitable outcomes. The red thread in this session comes down to: examining whose voices are heard, whose knowledge is valued, who decides and how these choices shape outcomes.

Parallel session: Addressing Vulnerability in Health and Food Sytems

This session will bring together the key policy messages and next steps for collaboratively navigating power relations towards action and policies for healthy and sustainable food environments in Europe.  

Closing session for action

Closing Remarks

Networking Drinks

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