GrowH! Symposium at the N&G Conference

This special session is titled “GrowH! – Obesity Prevention Tailored to Critical Transition Periods in the Early Life-course” and is scheduled to take place on Thursday 15 February from 9:00 to 10:30 a. m. (room “Pavilion 3 AB”)

The session will be chaired by Wolfgang Ahrens and Iris Pigeot and the schedule includes:

Talk 1. Implementing innovative approaches for obesity prevention in children and their families

Wolfgang Ahrens and Iris Pigeot (Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology – BIPS, Bremen, Germany)

Talk 2. Co-creating an obesity prevention intervention with children – a feasibility study from Zaragoza, Spain

Pilar De Miguel-Etayo, Luis A. Moreno (University of Zaragoza and CIBEROBN, Spain)

Talk 3. Implementing a family-based intervention to promote healthy family routines in deprived neighbourhoods – a feasibility study from Bremen, Germany

Tilman Brand (Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology – BIPS, Bremen, Germany), Marie Lisanne Schepan, Wolfgang Ahrens, Thomas Altgeld, Heide Busse, Stefan Rach, Elisabeth Rataj, Annika Swenne, Jess Haines

Talk 4. How to fit obesity prevention know-how from specific settings into a broader systems perspective: a conceptual framework from the GrowH! Project

Stefan De Henauw (Ghent University, Belgium), Laura Belmon, Alejandra Sotomayor, Teatske Altenburg

Discussants

Steven Allender (Global Centre for Preventive Health and Nutrition (GLOBE), Institute for Health Transformation (IHT), Deakin University, Australia)

Ana Isabel Rito (WHO Collaborating Center for Nutrition and Childhood Obesity - National Institute of Health Doutor Ricardo Jorge, Lisbon, Portugal)

Further information can be found here.