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News Nov 10, 20
Childhood Obesity: Maintaining momentum during COVID-19
New policy brief from World Obesity, delivering a message to the World Health Assembly.
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News Dec 21, 20
Disparities in paediatric weight management
New policy brief from World Obesity, analysing the global disparities in paediatric weight management.
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Policy & Advocacy Dec 03, 20
Stepping up action on childhood obesity
Barriers, lessons and next steps for implementing the Report of the Commission on Ending Childhood Obesity.
Read Post‘Stepping up action on childhood obesity’ – World Obesity’s latest policy brief has been released
Recognising that childhood obesity is a global problem, the WHO Commission on Ending Childhood Obesity published a comprehensive framework for action in its 2016 report Ending Childhood Obesity.
In October, the World Obesity Federation held a series of virtual meetings with a group of key childhood obesity stakeholders, focused on assessing the implementation of ECHO’s six key areas of action. The overarching aim of the meeting was to identify cross-cutting and shared opportunities, learning and concrete actions to help drive forward policies to address childhood obesity.
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Recent Events
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SCOPE School Dec 08, 20
SCOPE School Global: Childhood obesity – a window of opportunity for action
Join us for our third, and final, SCOPE School Global of 2020!
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Other Events Dec 03, 20
18th Annual World Congress Insulin resistance, diabetes and cardiovascular disease
18th Annual World Congress Insulin resistance, diabetes and CVD held on December 3rd - 5th.
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Webinars Dec 04, 20
World Obesity Live: Joining the dots – a reflection on COVID-19 & Obesity
This last webinar of the series will serve as an opportunity to reflect and explore priority actions and move forward.
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