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Calendar of obesity related events

This calendar contains a summary of past and present local, regional, All–island and international events taking place in 2010. Topics covered include areas such as nutrition, obesity and physical activity. For more information on any of the listed events click on the link provided.

If you have any events you would like to include on this calendar, please email details to the All-island Obesity Action Forum at obesityforum@safefood.eu.

If you are a nutrition professional and are interested in attending an event you may be eligible for funding under the Nutrition Exchange Programme.

January

Date	Details	Hosted by	Venue
27	Launch of Demonstration Programme of Community food Initiatives	safefood	Stormont Hotel, Belfast

Feburary

Date	Details	Hosted by	Venue
11	The Evidence Base for Sport and Physical Activity Promotion (Dr Charlie Foster)	Sport NI and University of Ulster	Stranmillis University college, Belfast
17-19	19th Nutrition Society (Irish section) Postgraduate Meeting	University College Dublin	Morrison Hotel, Ormond Quay, Dublin
22	Health and Health Equity in all local policies: Reality or aspiration?	Belfast Healthy Cities/ Public Health Agency	Belfast Castle
25	Nutrition and Health: Whats new?	Dairy Council for Northern Ireland	W5, Odyssey, Belfast
25	Climate change: whose health will be affected?	Institute of Public Health	The Greenhouse, 17 St. Andrews St, Dublin 2

March

Date	Details	Hosted by	Venue
01-03	Get Men Talking: Mens Health Month	Marie Keating Foundation	ROI, Countrywide
03	Leadership for the Health Equity: Organisational change	Belfast Healthy cities/ Public Health Agency	Belfast Castle
09	Marmot and the Third Sector: Adressing Health Inequalities Together	Department of Healths Strategic Partners	The Congress Centre, London
09	Are we what we eat? Debate	Food Standards Agency	British Library, London
09-10	Health and well being at work 2010	Sterling Events	National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham
15	Making Chronic Conditions Count. Press launch	Institute of Public Health in Ireland	Boardroom, Buswells Hotel, Dublin 2
17	Children in the Commercial World	Westminster Media forum	Central London
23	Tackling Obesity 2010		QEII Conference Centre, London
24	Official launch of the Fresh Project (focusing resources on eating and shaping health)	Fresh Project	Kinnego Room, Lough Neagh Discover Centre, Lurgan
24-25	UKPHA 18th Annual Public Health Forum: Confronting the Public Health Crisis	UK Public Health Association	Bournemouth

April

Date	Details	Hosted by	Venue
07	World Health Day: Urbanisation and Health	World Health Organisation	Worldwide
21	Inside Government's Case study Convention - Obesity: Healthy Lifestyles, Healthy Nation	Inside Government	Central London
27	HIA Forum 2010	Institute of Public Health in Ireland	Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson Street, Dublin 2
28	Achieving Health Equity	Belfast Healthy Cities/ Public Health Agency	Belfast Castle

May

Date	Details	Hosted by	Venue
05	Indicators of the Social Determinants of Health	Ireland and NI Population Health Observatory, Health Analysts' Special Interest Group	Athlone Institute of Technology
05-07	EGEA 2010 - Social and Health benefits of balanced diet: the role of fruit and vegetables	Aprifel	Brussels
05-08	3rd International Congress on Physical Activity and Public Health	International Society for Physical Activity and Health	Toronto, Canada
12	Community Planning for Health	Belfast Healthy Cities/Public Health Agency	Belfast Castle
13	Food Poverty and Inequality: the growth of hunger in the UK	Prof MartinCaraher, Professor of food and health policy, City University London	City University London
13-16	The Third World Congress on controversies to consensus in Diabetes, Obesity and Hypertension	Comtec Med	Toronto, Canada
14	Identifying Local Needs	Community Development and Health Network	NICVA, 61 Duncairn Gardens, Belfast
15	International Day of families	United Nations	Worldwide
15-21	Social Inclusion Week	Office of social Inclusion	ROI, Countrywide
16	European Obesity Day	EU	EU
17	The Scottish Diet Conference: Bringing lasting change to Scotlands Diet	University of Glasgow, Faculty of Medicine	Hilton Grosvenor Hotel, Glasgow
18	Fruit Forum Conference	Teagasc, UCD Institute of Food and Health and the EU ISAFRUIT Framework 6 Project, in association with Bord Bia and RELAY-research	Ashtown Food Research Centre, Dublin 15
24-25	Faculty of Public Health Medicine . Royal College of Physicians of Ireland 2010 Summer Scientific meeting	Faculty of Public Health Medicine. Royal College of Physicians	The Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, No 6 Kildare Street, Dublin 2
26	Childhood Health; Fit for the Future	Public service events	The Barbican London
27-28	4th EPODE National Congress "EPODE:already 5 years. Together we look forward to the future"	EPODE	Vitre, France

June

Date	Details	Hosted by	Venue
01-30	Happy Heart Eat Out Campaign	Irish Heart Foundation, safefood and the HSE	ROI
04	2nd Annual Social Marketing Conference	NUI Galway	NUI Galway
08	Conference on Physical exercise, Obesity and Health	Association for the study of obesity	National museam of Wales, Cardiff
8-11	Health Promotion Summer School: Mens Health	NUIG Health Promotion Research centre	NUIG
09-12	ISBNPA Annual Meeting	International Society for Behavioural Nutrition and Physical Activity	Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
10	How doctors can close the Gap: tackling the social determinants of health through culture change, advocacy and education	Royal College of Physicians	London
10	Ireland on the move: enhancing opportunities for physical activity in the built enviornment	Institute of Public Health and UKCRC Centre of Excellence for Public Health (NI)	The Clarion IFSC, Dublin 1
13-19	Diabetes Week	Diabetes UK	UK
13-27	Bike Week 2010: Two Wheels, Two Weeks	Travelwise NI	NI
14-20	Mens Health Week: Men and physical activity	Mens health forum in Ireland/EU	IOI/EU
15	All-island Obesity Action Forum: Is partnership the Key to Adressing Obesity in Young People	All-island Obesity Action supported by safefood	Stormont Hotel, Belfast
17	Man Alive! Mens Health Conference- Sport and Health a shared agenda	Ulster Cancer Foundation	Ravenhill Rugby Grounds, Belfast
16-18	Nutrition: getting the balance right in 2010	Nutrition society, Irish section	University of Ulster, Coleraine
23	Community engagement: Measuring effectiveness	Belfast Healthy Cities/Public Health Agency	Belfast Castle
28-01 July	Nutrition and Health: Cell to community	Nutrition society, Scottish section	Scotland
30 June-02 July	ASO Conference Obesity & its Management	International Association for the Study of Obesity	Liverpool

July

Date	Details	Hosted by	Venue
05-06	2nd BSA Food Study Group Conference	The Bristish Sociological Association	The British Library Conference Centre, London
11-15	11th International Congress on Obesity	IASO	Stockholm, Sweden
11-15	20th IUHPE World Conference on Health Promotion	IUHPE	Geneva, Switzerland

August

Date	Details	Hosted by	Venue
23-24	Evidencing Our Impact – celebrating the contribution of Community Food Initiatives	Community Food and Health Scotland	New Lanark, Scotland

September

Date	Details	Hosted by	Venue
01-30	Irish Heart Month- Women and cardiovascular disease	Irish Hear Foundation	ROI
06-08	UK Society for Social Medicine (SSM) Annual Scientific meeting	Society for Social Medicine	Queens University Belfast
12-13	Nutrition, Physical Activity and Cancer prevention: Current Challenges, New Horizons	WCRF International	Royal College of Physicans, London
14	Heart health - what women need to know	Irish Heart Foundation and Royal College of Physicians Ireland	RCPI, Kildare Street, Dublin
16	Time to join the online conversation? You are what you tw-eat: Social Media, Food and Health	safefood	Dublin Convention Centre
16-19	2010 SCOPE Summer School	International Association for the Study of Obesity (IASO) SCOPE	Cambridge, UK
21	Nutrition and Health Foundation Annual Seminar: Obesity: a life cycle perspective	Nutrition and Health foundation	Dublin
23-25	2nd World Congress on Public Health Nutrition	World Public Health Nutrition Association	Porto, Portugal (abstract deadline 30th April)
29	Social Marketing: An approach to tackling health inequalities	Belfast Healthy Cities/ Public Health Agency	Belfast Castle
28	School Food; Healthy Children, Healthy Minds	Inside Government	Central London
30	Public Health: Promoting Health and the Challenges Ahead	Public Service Events	The Barbican London

October

Date	Details	Hosted by	Venue
07-08	National Obesity Forum Conference	National Obesity Forum	The Royal College of physicians, London
08-12	The Obesity Society's 2010 Annual Scientific Meeting (TOS)	The Obesity Society	San Diego, California
16	World Food Day	Food and Agriculture Association	Worldwide
17	World Day to Overcome Extreme Poverty	United Nations	Worldwide
17-22	Social Inclusion Week	Office of Social Inclusion	ROI, Countrywide
20	Health Spending versus Health Outcomes: do the benefits outweigh the costs?	Belfast Healthy Cities/ Public Health Agency	Belfast Castle
20	Professional Diabetes Conference 2010: Quality Care for All	Diabetes UK Northern Ireland	Glenavon Hotel, Cookstown
21	Tackling the issues: knowing the score - Annual Networking Conference	Community Food and Health Scotland	Park Hotel, Kilmarnock, Scotland
21-22	AICR Annual Research Conference on Food, Nutrition, Physical Activity and Cancer	American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR)	Capital Hilton Hotel, Washington DC
28-30	7th World Congress on Mens Health (Mens Health: How to overcome the challenges)	World Congress on Mens Health	Nice, France
28-30	Cancer and Obesity Conference	International Association for the Study of Obesity	Valencia, Spain

November

Date	Details	Hosted by	Venue
01-05	Men's Cancer Action Week	Irish Cancer Society	ROI
09	All Island Obesity Action Forum	All-Island Obesity Action Forum	Dublin
10-12	EFFoST Annual Conference - Food and Health	European Federation of Food Science and technology in association with IUFoST and FISEC	Dublin
17	Your business is my business: managing knowledge and information effectively	Belfast Healthy cities/ Public Health agency	Belfast Castle
17-20	20th European Childhood Obesity Group Meeting	ECOG	Brussels
18-20	4th Congress of the International society of Nutrigenetics/Nutrigenomics ISNN - From Reference Intakes to personalised nutrition	ISNN	Pamplona, Navarra, Spain
21-22	Active Participation: Be Part of the Debate! 6th All Island Sport Development Conference	Irish Sports Council and Sport NI	Aviva Stadium Dublin (21) and National Convention Centre, Dublin (22)
23	BHFNC 10th Annual Conference: The cure for all ill is not to sit still	British Heart Foundation National Centre Physical Activity and Health	East Midlands Conference Centre, Nottingham
24-25	2nd HEPA Europe Conference and 6th Movement and Health Conference: Health- enhancing physical activity in the 21st Century: Enviornmental and Social influences and approaches	Palacky University, Faculty of Physical Culture, Olomouc, Czech Republic	Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic
25-26	1st UK International Functional Food Conference: The science, claims and marketing of functional foods	Oxford Brookes University	Barceló Oxford Hotel
26	6th annual meeting of HEPA Europe	HEPA Europe	Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic

December

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