ZEF Public Lecture: Food environments and inequalities in healthy, sustainable diets

November 21, 2024 | 13:30 h - 14:30 h

We'd like to invite you to our upcoming Public Lecture!

Topic: Food environments and inequalities in healthy, sustainable diets 

Speaker: Professor Oyinlola Oyebode (Professor of Public Health, Centre Lead Public Health and Policy at Queen Mary University of London)

How to join

The lecture will be held in hybrid mode (zoom and in-person at ZEF). 
You can join us in-person at ZEF, ground floor, Conference Room, Genscherallee 3, 53113 Bonn,
or online via Zoom: https://uni-bonn.zoom-x.de/j/61201406447?pwd=wL906rS8HAanS1pUS00qQoXb9ds55U.1

About

In her talk, Professor Oyinlola Oyebode will discuss the need to improve the food environment to promote healthy, sustainable diets and reduce health inequalities in the UK and globally. This will include work she completed (i) as part of the National Institute of Health Research Global Health Research Unit on Improving Health in Slums, including systematic reviews, secondary data analysis, and primary research to examine prevalence and risk factors for non-communicable diseases in very deprived urban neighborhoods, and (ii) within the UK Government funded SALIENT consortium, focused on trials of interventions to promote healthy and sustainable diets in the UK in which she co-leads a trial of eco-labels and discounts on sustainable products in the online grocery shopping environment. 

Prof Oyebode is a Professor of Public Health at Queen Mary University of London, in London, UK. After degrees in natural sciences and neuroscience at the University of Cambridge and the University of Edinburgh, Prof Oyebode completed specialty training in Public Health in a variety of local and national organizations across London. When she completed her training in 2014 she took up an academic position at the University of Warwick where she collaborated with researchers in the UK, Bangladesh, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Pakistan, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, and Uganda and developed expertise in three main areas: the behavioral risk factors for non-communicable diseases (particularly diet), the health of marginalized urban populations, and knowledge mobilization to bridge the gap between research and practice. She joined QMUL in September 2022 where she leads the Centre for Public Health and Policy. 

Moderator: Dr Hannah Ameye