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Monday, 01 November 2021 13:53

PEN Food-EPI report for Poland

The Healthy Food Environment Policy Index (Food-EPI): Poland

The report summarizes the results of the Food-EPI index implementation in Poland. Our survey tried to answer 2 basic questions:

The Food-EPI is a methodological framework for the systematic collection, analysis and international comparison of policy frameworks that influence nutrition at the population level is available at the PEN website.

Monday, 11 October 2021 13:41

PEN Symposia at ISPAH

2 PEN symposia at the 8th International Society for Physical Activity and Health (ISPAH) Congress, October 12 to 14, 2021.

 

Monday, 04 October 2021 11:02

PEN ECN webinar

The PEN Early Careers Network (ECN) invites to its next webinar on Tuesday 19th October, 10:00-10:45 CEST

Webinar title: A Career Pathways Seminar

Speaker: Professor Nanna Lien, leader of the research group in Public Health Nutrition at the Department of Nutrition, University of Oslo.

Monday, 27 September 2021 09:33

PEN Food-EPI reports: new documents available

New summaries of the Food-EPI reports at EU level and from the Netherlands (Dutch and English) are available

Summaries of following reports can be downloaded from the PEN website:

  • Report “The Healthy Food Environment Policy Index (Food-EPI): European Union. An assessment of EU-level policies influencing food environments and priority actions to create healthy food environments in the EU”
  • Report “The Healthy Food Environment Policy Index (Food-EPI): The Netherlands. An assessment of national governmental policies affecting the food environment in the Netherlands and policy actions for creating a healthy food environment”. The summary is available in Dutch and English.

Last webinar of the series: "Road to the future: what is the next exit for childhood obesity?" on Tuesday 28th September at 1:00 pm CEST

Four European projects STOP, CO-CREATE, JA Best-ReMaP and PEN addressing the global childhood obesity epidemic join efforts!

Friday, 24 September 2021 10:26

Interview with Prof Wolfgang Ahrens

Within the World Café collaboration, the World Obesity Federation interviewed Prof Wolfgang Ahrens (BIPS) coordinator of the Policy Evaluation Network - PEN

The interview focuses on the prevalence of childhood obesity across Europe and the barriers to addressing this problem. Prof Ahrens also talks about how is the Policy Evaluation Network evaluating policy measures to promote a healthy diet and physical activity in Europe and how has the cross-collaboration with the STOP, CO-CREATE, and JA Best-ReMAP projects strengthened the efforts in doing so.

Joint activity of four European projects STOP, CO-CREATE, JA Best-ReMaP and PEN addressing the global childhood obesity epidemic

We’d like to invite to the next webinar of the joint activity “World Café: let’s talk about childhood obesity”, titled “Youth: A Driving Force for Change?” to take place on Tuesday 14th September, 13:00-14:00 CEST, to showcase how the CO-CREATE project is involving youth as genuine project partners to identify the drivers of obesity and obesity-related policies that hold promise in building a healthier future. The CO-CREATE dialogue forum tool will be used to convene youth and stakeholders to discuss meaningful youth engagement and inclusion.

Friday, 03 September 2021 14:25

New PEN publication

Policies to promote physical activity in Germany. An analysis based on a policy audit tool from the World Health Organization (German title: Politik zur Bewegungsförderung in Deutschland. Eine Analyse anhand eines Policy-Audit-Tools der Weltgesundheitsorganisation)

Thursday, 19 August 2021 14:47

PEN workshop - Registration is now open!

Workshop "Quantifying the impact of food and lifestyle policies: Challenges, perspectives and synergies in the identification of causal effects and model-based simulations"

This virtual workshop is organized within the activities of the PEN WP3 “Estimation and simulation of policy impact” and is open to all interested.

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