The Capacity Building Session on Nutrition and Health is an occasion for different stakeholders to deepen their understanding of the domain and to strengthen their capacities.
Chair of the session is Ms. Monika Kosinska, EPHA’s Secretary General. The capacity building session will host high level speakers with afterwards time for open debate with different stakeholders.
The goal of this session is to:
present recent knowledge in the CAP and its impact on health
raise awareness amongst different stakeholders
At this seminar EPHA would like to discuss following objectives:
What is wrong with the CAP ?
How should the CAP look like ?
When + how do we help to make a change ?
Who shares this view ?
Speakers:
Dr. Karen Lock, lecturer in Public Health at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and a public health doctor in the UK NHS. Her research focuses on the environmental and policy determinants of diet, and she has a special interest in health impacts of agricultural policy. She has been involved with the EC agricultural reform of the fruit and vegetable sector, and she will present an overview of the policy process and the impact of health issues on the debate.
- Robert Pederson works as a project consultant on food policy for the Danish Cancer Society. Robert has been active in international advocacy work for school fruit and vegetable schemes and recently for an EU school fruit scheme. Robert will present the EU school fruit scheme as an example of how putting health into the CAP can work !
- Dr. Christopher Birt of the Cardiovascular Health Working Group of the Faculty of Public Health (UK). On behalf of this Working Group Dr. Birt has been the author of several reports that shows the consequences on the average diet and on the public health of the CAP. He is also Co-Chair of the Board of Trustees of Heart of Mersey, the UK’s largest cardiovascular diseases primary prevention programme. Chris will discuss the implications for health of the way the CAP has developed over the years and will indicate some objectives for reform of the CAP designed to improve Europe’s nutrition and health.
When: Wednesday 27 February 2008 from 13.00h -18.00h
Venue: Committee of the Regions,
Bâtiment Jacques Delors,
Rue Belliard 99-101B, 1040 Brussels.
Please note that in order with security rules in the building of the Committee of the Regions, participants need to register !
If you are interested in attending, please send an email to caroline@epha.org before 22 February 2008.
For more information contact:
Caroline Bollars (caroline@epha.org)
