Champions are central to OEN’s vision for improving the health and lives of people living with obesity. We spoke with OEN founding member and Champion, Maggie Clinton, about the Champion role and our conversation formed the basis for this post.
Continue reading “Why are OEN UK Champions so valuable?”Applications invited for OEN UK Champions
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”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”What Matters To You?
A group of researchers at the at The University of Oxford want to know your priorities for research about body weight and obesity.
Continue reading “What Matters To You?”The need to address the complexities of obesity
Obesity Empowerment Network UK Champion Angela Chesworth recently spoke to Alex Hall from The Daily Telegraph.
Continue reading “The need to address the complexities of obesity”Obesity and COVID-19: A Call for Action from People Living with Obesity
A recently published OEN UK authored comment article, published online by the Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology, puts forward a call to action in response to the experiences of people living with obesity in the face of COVID-19.
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