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Join the United Nations Call for Science-Policy Briefs and Case Studies for the Multi-stakeholder Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation for the SDGs 2024!

Deadline for abstracts is 16 February and for full draft submissions is 10 March 2024 The UN Interagency Task Team on Science, Technology and Innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals (IATT) is calling upon scientists, and policy analysts to contribute...

WPHN Congress 2024, London, is coming! Registrations open

The World Public Health Nutrition Congress 2024 will take place on 10 to 13 June, 2024 in London, UK. Early bird registrations are now open and day registrations and selected online access are also available (link to registration). The Congress will be held one year...

ICO 2024 Conference abstracts closing soon!

The International Congress on Obesity will be held in Sao Paulo this 26 -29 June. The call for abstracts can be found here. The deadline for submissions is 5 February 2024. We expect to have several INFORMAS team members attending, this will be a great venue to connect!

WPHN Congress 2024, London, is coming! Registrations open

The World Public Health Nutrition Congress 2024 will take place on 10 to 13 June, 2024 in London, UK. Early bird registrations are now open and day registrations and selected online access are also available (link to registration). The Congress will be held one year...

ICO 2024 Conference abstracts closing soon!

The International Congress on Obesity will be held in Sao Paulo this 26 -29 June. The call for abstracts can be found here. The deadline for submissions is 5 February 2024. We expect to have several INFORMAS team members attending, this will be a great venue to connect!

INFORMAS eNewsletter December 2023

Greetings INFORMAS colleagues, As you can see from this newsletter, the INFORMAS network has been very active this year. It is excellent to see the ongoing engagement of researchers in the various networking and presentation activities, module methods development and...

New Section Frontiers in Nutrition: Food Policy and Economics

Frontiers in Nutrition have recently launched a permanent section entitled Food Policy and Economics. This topic offers a channel for dissemination of INFORMAS-related results, particularly pertaining to economic analyses of food and nutrition issues, and the...

INFORMAS Satellite at ICO

An INFORMAS Satellite meeting was held on the day preceding the International Congress on Obesity (ICO) in Melbourne, Australia, on the 17th of October, 2022.`   This was a long-overdue opportunity to network and share ideas face-to-face, which created a chance...

Sustainability to be incorporated into INFORMAS

Canada's International Development Research Centre has awarded a new grant to 1) incorporate sustainability indicators into the INFORMAS modules for measuring food environments, and 2) include municipal/city-level indicators in addition to monitoring national...

Food-EPI NZ 2020

Government has made virtually no progress on implementing healthy food policies in the last three years. The Expert Panel called for a national Food Systems and Nutrition Strategy, adequate income to make healthy food choices, mandatory food-related policies and an updated nutrition survey.

World Public Health Nutrition Congress 2020

INFORMAS Symposium to be held at World Public Health Nutrition Congress 2020 31 March - 3 April 2020 Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre, Queensland, Australia, was cancelled due to COVID-19. We hope to resume in-person meetings as soon as...