Obesity prevention: Translating evidence into action

An IUHPE associated IOTF workshop held on Monday 26 April 2004, Melbourne hosted by Deakin University’s WHO Collaborating Centre for Obesity Prevention.
 

Aims

To consider and critique a proposed framework and process for incorporating available evidence and other considerations into recommendations for comprehensive action on obesity prevention.
 

Outcome

A process and framework that can be used by groups, such as an obesity taskforce, for developing a comprehensive plan of action for obesity.  The framework would need to: be comprehensive; be evidenced-based; take other considerations into account (cost, feasibility, acceptability, reach, sustainability, and equity); and be user friendly and readily applied in different countries.

Outputs

An IOTF paper on Evidence-Based Obesity Prevention for WHO’s Global Strategy on Diet, Physical Activity and Health and peer-reviewed publication

Contact

Prof Boyd Swinburn                            
Deakin University                              
221 Burwood Hwy                              
Melbourne 3125

Tel  +613 9251 7096
Fax +613 9244 6017

Email swinburn@deakin.edu.au

Program 

Session 1 – What evidence is available, what do policy makers want?
· At what ‘stage of change’ are governments now and what are they asking for?
  Phillip James, IOTF
· Obesity in the context of other epidemics: lessons to be learnt
  Shiriki Kumanyika, IOTF
· WHO Global Strategy on Diet, Physical Activity and Health
  Robert Beaglehole, WHO Geneva
· How do policy-makers use evidence to decide on obesity action?
  Pekka Puska, National Public Health Institute, Helsinki
 
Session 2 – Proposed framework and processes
· Using the evidence to create a comprehensive obesity prevention plan – proposed framework and process
  Boyd Swinburn Deakin University and Tim Gill, IOTF
· Moving recommendations through the political process
  John Catford, Deakin University and Chairman of the Scientific Committee for the Australian National Obesity Taskforce
· Developing evidence-based community prevention guides
  David McQueen, CDC, Atlanta
 
Session 3 – Contributions from other models
· Assessing the Cost Effectiveness of obesity interventions - the ACE model
  Rob Carter, Melbourne University
·The contribution of Cochrane processes to evaluation of public health evidence for action
  Liz Waters, Cochrane group on obesity prevention, Victoria