BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//IMS Epidemiology - ECPv6.18.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-WR-CALNAME:IMS Epidemiology
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.epi.ims.cam.ac.uk
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for IMS Epidemiology
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H
X-Robots-Tag:noindex
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:Europe/Paris
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:+0100
TZOFFSETTO:+0200
TZNAME:CEST
DTSTART:20200329T010000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:+0200
TZOFFSETTO:+0100
TZNAME:CET
DTSTART:20201025T010000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:+0100
TZOFFSETTO:+0200
TZNAME:CEST
DTSTART:20210328T010000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:+0200
TZOFFSETTO:+0100
TZNAME:CET
DTSTART:20211031T010000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:+0100
TZOFFSETTO:+0200
TZNAME:CEST
DTSTART:20220327T010000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:+0200
TZOFFSETTO:+0100
TZNAME:CET
DTSTART:20221030T010000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:UTC
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:+0000
TZOFFSETTO:+0000
TZNAME:UTC
DTSTART:20200101T000000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210707T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210707T150000
DTSTAMP:20210622T112221Z
CREATED:20210622T110531Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210622T112221Z
UID:20174-1625666400-1625670000@www.epi.ims.cam.ac.uk
SUMMARY:The Broken Plate 2021 - Food Foundation event
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday 7 July\, 2pm\nRegister here to be sent a Zoom link for the event.\nResearchers from CEDAR at the MRC Epidemiology Unit have\, for the third year in a row\, contributed to the Food Foundation’s annual Broken Plate report. \nEach year the report tracks progress against 10 metrics that illustrate the health of our food system.  These statistics are widely quoted\, and make the case for bold action. \nThis year’s report demonstrates that the food environment is skewed towards less healthy options\, and that healthier foods are much less accessible and affordable for those on lower incomes.  It powerfully shows why we must change the food environment so that it delivers healthy and sustainable diets for everyone. \nJoin this webinar to find out more about the findings and their implications for future policy. \nThe event will be chaired by Laura Sandys MBE. The speakers are: \nAdvertising – Barbara Crowther\, Sustain \nAffordability of a healthy diet – Kathleen Kerridge\, Chair of The Food Foundation’s Lived Experience Panel \nThe cost of food – Dr Jean Adams\, CEDAR\, MRC Epidemiology Unit \nWages – Nye Cominetti\, Resolution Foundation \nProducts with too much sugar – Dr Kawther Hashem and Sonia Pombo\, Action on Sugar \nProducts with too little veg – Simon Billing\, Eating Better
URL:https://www.epi.ims.cam.ac.uk/event/broken-plate-food-foundation-launch-event/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210719T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210719T131500
DTSTAMP:20210720T165617Z
CREATED:20210629T141757Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210720T165617Z
UID:20274-1626696000-1626700500@www.epi.ims.cam.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Seminar- Policymaking: why it matters to us\, how it works\, what to do
DESCRIPTION:All are invited to the MRC Epidemiology Seminar: \nPolicymaking: why it matters to us\, how it works\, what to do\nDolly Theis (MRC Epidemiology Unit)\, Dr Kelly Parsons (University Of Hertfordshire) & Dame Una O’Brien (Independent advisor and expert on health policy).\nWatch a recording of this panel discussion online. \nAbout this talk\nWhy is it so difficult for UK governments to make progress on tackling obesity and food systems? In this seminar\, three experts will present their research and insights of policy and practice in England. The seminar will then provide discussion about how the current government could make change in policies and systems to be more sustainable manner. \nDolly Theis\nIt was in 1991 that the UK government first formally recognised its role in tackling obesity and set the first obesity reduction targets. Since then\, our analysis found that the UK government has published 14 obesity strategies in England containing almost 700 policies and yet these have largely been unfit for purpose. Despite there being a wide range of policy types proposed from information campaigns and school policies to stronger levers such as the soft drinks industry levy and more recent policies on unhealthy advertising and promotions\, the government policies have largely been proposed in a way that means they’re unlikely to be implemented. There has also been little to no policy learning and government has focused on getting people to change their own behaviour without making that easy by shaping the environment and other wider determinants. \nDr Kelly Parsons\nPolicies have been described as the ‘control knobs’ that can be adjusted to achieve system change\, so understanding how policy does\, or could\, influence food systems is an important part of catalysing their transformation. Gaining this understanding requires breaking down sectoral and disciplinary silos to consider food-related policies as a whole\, and interrogating the policymaking processes and governance structures which shape those policies. \nThis presentation will share insights from my research into how different policies\, policy processes and governance structures enable and constrain food systems change. I will discuss how common frameworks for understanding and acting on food systems – such as mapping who makes policy\, or detailing the range of possible policy levers – can support collaboration across government\, between disciplines\, and between research and policy. I will also propose a research agenda to address current evidence gaps around food policymaking. \nDame Una O’Brien\nDame Una O’Brien will give a response to the latest research presented by Dolly Thesis and Dr Kelly Parsons\, and share insights from her own experience of policy and practice in England. The aim will be to contribute to the debate about practical steps the current government could take to put change on a more sustainable basis. \nAbout the speakers\nDolly Theis\nDolly Theis is completing her PhD at the MRC Epidemiology Unit in the University of Cambridge supervised by Professor Martin White and Dr Dennis Grube. Her research examines what influences government policymaking\, how governments use and understand scientific research\, and understanding the particular role of policy entrepreneurs. \nDr Kelly Parsons\nDr Kelly Parsons is a food policy and governance research fellow at the University of Hertfordshire. Her research focus is food systems policies\, policymaking processes and governance structures\, at global\, EU\, national and local levels. Kelly has a particular interest in exploring connections in the food system\, and efforts to create more integrated and coherent food policy. She produced the first mapping of government food policy\, and is author of a series of accessible briefs on food systems\, integrated food policy\, policy coherence\, and food governance\, and ‘Connecting Food Systems for Co-Benefits’. She is a European Commission-appointed expert\, and has acted as advisor on several food systems research projects. She has a PhD in food policy and a Masters in food and nutrition policy\, from the Centre for Food Policy at City\, University of London. Before becoming a researcher Kelly worked in food civil society delivering ground-level urban food systems change\, and as a journalist. \nDame Una O’Brien\nDame Una O’Brien is a former public servant in the UK Department of Health and NHS. From 2010-2016 she was the department’s Permanent Secretary and previously held a wide variety of senior strategy\, policy and delivery roles in health and healthcare. Currently she is on the Council of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and she serves on an advisory board for the Obesity Health Alliance’s forthcoming Healthy Weight Strategy.
URL:https://www.epi.ims.cam.ac.uk/event/seminar-policymaking-why-it-matters/
LOCATION:Online\, United Kingdom
ORGANIZER;CN="MRC Epidemiology Unit":MAILTO:contact@mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR