Economics of Obesity
Obesity is recognised as one of the most significant public health challenges of our time and has both societal and economic burden. The Economic of Obesity SIG brings together IHEA members from across the world with an interest in obesity and obesity prevention, from an economics perspective. We aim to create a community of health economists to share knowledge, enhance research collaboration and support capacity building of early career researchers. Our activities include hosting pre-congress workshops, particularly profiling early career research, sending regular newsletters, hosting webinars and providing input to policy development internationally. If you have an interest in the economics of obesity, and would like to expand your networks, then please join this highly relevant SIG.
Activities
Here is where you will find some of the past activities our SIG, including IHEA pre-conference sessions, EuHEA sessions and input to policy initiatives.
past webinars
- From Research to Policy: Economic Evaluation and Political Economy Lessons in SSB Taxation- November 7, 2024
- Leveraging DICE Simulation for Modelling Obesity – February 20, 2020
Connecting Researchers
Here are some of the Economics of Obesity researchers and research groups from around the world.
Deakin University, Australia:
Deakin
University of Birmingham, UK:
Birmingham
Griffith University, Australia:
Griffith
University of Montevideo, Uruguay:
Montevideo
University of São Paulo, Brazil:
SaoPaulo
University of Sydney, Australia:
Sydney
Economics of Obesity SIG Convenors
Lead convenor: Alison Hayes, University of Sydney, Australia
Past lead convenor: Emma Frew, University of Birmingham, UK
Conveners for Organised Congress Sessions: Paolo Candio, University of Trento, Italy and David Frisvold, University of Iowa, USA
Conveners for LMIC focussed Research: Olufunke Alaba, University of Cape Town, South Africa and Mary Wanjau, Griffth University, Australia
Convener for Communications and Networking: Jaithri Ananthapavan, Deakin University, Australia
Conveners for Webinars: Nafsika Afentou and Lin Fu, University of Birmingham, UK