26 October 2023 | Brussels, EU Quarter
The MEP Interest Group on Obesity and Health System Resilience in collaboration with EASO – the European Association for the Study of Obesity, is convening a technical working session on overcoming policy barriers to improve care for people with obesity and EU added value.
At EASO we host an annual policy conference organised in collaboration with the European Coalition for People Living With Obesity (ECPO). The conference aims to support participants in their efforts to drive policy change for obesity nationally and at an EU level by inviting experts to share updates on the latest research and initiatives, debating key issues and providing insight on recent policy developments.
OPEN-EU acts as a multi-stakeholder collaborative policy coalition, which seeks to ensure that all relevant European institutional strategies and policies integrate measures that effectively help support people living with obesity at EU, national and regional levels and that the treatment of obesity as a gateway disease to type 2 diabetes, certain cancers and over 230 other complications of obesity is accessible to all.
As the expert secretariat for OPEN EU we organise the set-up of key events for the coalition.
The informal MEP interest group focuses on implementing obesity as a non-communicable chronic disease. The ambition of the group is to ensure obesity is recognised as a chronic disease in definition, scope and how it is treated beyond primary prevention within policy instruments. The group also goes beyond obesity and considers resilient health systems and ecosystems more broadly.
As the scientific secretariat for the MEP Interest Group on Obesity and Resilient Health Systems we organise the set-up of key events for the group.
