SASUF Satellite Events 2024

Registration: To register for the session, please click on the following link: https://doit.medfarm.uu.se/bin/kurt3/kurt/8863770

The satellite session is hosted by the newly established by The Guild-ARUA Cluster of Research Excellence (CoRE) on Food Environment Actions for the Promotion of Health Food Environment Actions for the Promotion of Health - The Guild (the-guild.eu) and GlobeLife ( a collaboration between Uppsala University and Karolinska Institutet in the field of global health ). This session will serve as the first full meeting of the members of this Cluster of Research Excellence. The Cluster’s partners have a wide range of disciplinary expertise in food environments research and work in very different geographical contexts.

This session will therefore also serve as a space to work towards a multi-disciplinary, multi-regional approach to understanding and exploring critical gaps in the research-practise-education-policy pipeline with regards to intersection and inter-relationship between food environments and health. For this CoRE, the key words are Food Environment AND Heath, with both always being considered together and neither standing alone. Central to the
session will be discussion on consolidating existing knowledges on food environments and health, and strategies to work towards the co-generation of mechanisms to integrate the two through new indicators, tools, approaches and policy guidelines.

The session will further reflect on modes to study lived experiences of food environments in relation to health, so as
to keep people at the centre of the cluster activities. Hence, this satellite session will serve as the first open session of this CoRE to present current work of the CoRE partners while also brainstorming on next steps.

The proposed satellite session aims to:

1. To present the state-of-the-art on the research intersection between food environment and health, according to the CoRE expertise.
2. To identify critical research gaps yet to be addressed as well as gaps around the meta-framing around food environment and health
3. To identify gaps and opportunities for translation of food environment and health research into policy and practice
4. To provide networking opportunities for participants in the satellite session and future CoRE events

Registration: To register for the session, please click on the following link: https://doit.medfarm.uu.se/bin/kurt3/kurt/8863770 

The program to the satellite event is tentative as follows:

• 8:30-9:00    Registration
• 9:00-9:30    Introductions, ice-breaker & scene setting
• 9:30-10:30   Introduction of the CoRE and presentations of state-of-art from the perspective of different CoRE partners
• 10:30-11:00  Coffee break
• 11:00-12:00  Participatory session
• 11:00-11:20: Rapid round to identify current gaps & potential future trajectories
• 11:20-11:40: Discussion in groups on two topics
• Topic 1: Identify mechanisms to fill the gaps and guide those trajectories
• Topic 2: Discuss approaches to enable rapid translation from evidence to policy and practice
• 11:40-12:00: General discussion, closing & next steps
• 12:00-13:00  Light lunch & mingle

The venue is at Uppsala University: Experimental classroom, Campus Blåsenhus, 2nd floor (10:203).

Keywords: Food environment, health, food systems, malnutrition, health promotion, non-communicable diseases, under nutrition