Bold actions, bold outcomes: protecting and promoting healthy food environments in the SDGs

This event, on the margins of the UN High-level Political Forum (HLPF), will explore policies to prevent obesity, including regulatory and scale measures, as part of a broader strategy to address diet-related NCDs and to achieve a number of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

The 2017 HLPF provides an important backdrop for this discussion, as the goals to be reviewed, SDGs 1, 2, 3, 5, 9, and 14, demonstrate how integrated action on food and nutrition can result in progress across the SDGs. 

Date: 17 July 2017

Place: UN Headquarters, New York

Moderator: Dr Marion Nestle, New York University

Welcome Remarks: Dr Nata Menabde, Executive Director, WHO Of ce at the United Nations

Speakers

Dr Jamie Burrows, Vice Minister of Health, Chile

H.E. Mr Virachai Plasai, Permanent Representative, Thailand

Dr Francesco Branca, Director of Nutrition, WHO

Dr. Roland Kupka, Senior Nutrition Advisor, UNICEF

Mr Luis Manual Encarnación Cruz, Coalition Mexico Salud-hable 

Co-hosts

Permanent Mission of Chile

Permanent Mission of Thailand

World Health Organization

NCD Alliance