OEN UK are delighted to be recruiting Champions across the UK. Read this post to find out more about the role and how you can apply.
Continue reading “Applications invited for OEN UK Champions”Stand Up To Weight Stigma
To mark World Obesity Day 2021 we are launching our ‘Stand Up to Weight Stigma’ campaign. In this post we introduce the campaign and how you can be involved today and through the year.
Continue reading “Stand Up To Weight Stigma”World Obesity Day 2021: Stand Up to Weight Stigma
On Thursday 4th March 2021 individuals around the world will be marking World Obesity Day. In this post we provide an update on this year’s theme, how OEN UK will be marking the day and how you can get involved.
Continue reading “World Obesity Day 2021: Stand Up to Weight Stigma”Expert Panel Discussion: The impact of weight stigma on people with obesity
We are glad to be able to share access to a recent international panel discussion on the hugely important issue of weight stigma. In this panel, four experts in the field present on the impact that weight stigma has on people living with obesity and on funding for scientific research which could develop future treatments.
Continue reading “Expert Panel Discussion: The impact of weight stigma on people with obesity”Five minutes with Pinki Sahota
Pinki Sahota is Emeritus Professor in Nutrition and Childhood Obesity at Leeds Beckett University. Pinki is a member of the Obesity Empowerment Network Steering Group and our Trustee for Communications and PR. We caught up with Pinki ahead of the launch of the new OEN UK Strategic Plan 2020-2023…
Continue reading “Five minutes with Pinki Sahota”An Introduction to the Strategic Plan 2020-2023
The Trustees of OEN UK apply their wide experience of working in the field of obesity to set the strategic direction for the network. In this blog series we meet the Trustees who have developed the OEN UK Strategic Plan 2020-2023. In the first post in the series, Professor Rachel Batterham, founding member and Chair of OEN UK, introduces the new 3-year Strategic Plan.
Continue reading “An Introduction to the Strategic Plan 2020-2023”‘A personal experience of the obesity pathway’
Nadya Isack, London Champion, spoke at the launch of the Barnet Health Path, held at the Hendon City Hall in 2018.
Nadya is pictured (above) talking to members of the Barnet Health Pathways about stigma and advocating for people living with Obesity.
