Conferences & Meetings
Best Abstract at ICO Congress 2024
Dr. Thaís Cristina Marquezine Caldeira, one of our Early Career Researchers at INFORMAS Brazil, has won the award for Best Abstract Presentation at the International Congress on Obesity (ICO Congress) 2024. Her presentation, titled “Association of the Cost with the...
SAVE THE DATE! Pre-ICO Workshop: Evidence Generation to Policy Action!
Are you heading to Sao Paulo, Brazil, for the upcoming International Congress on Obesity (ICO)? Don't miss this Pre-Congress Workshop: Evidence Generation to Policy Action! Featuring speakers from the Latin American region and around the world, this half-day workshop...
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. Registrations are still open and day registrations and selected online access are also available (link to registration). The Congress will be held one year before the...
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 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...
Idec and COLANSA launch Agenda for Action to promote transition in food systems in Brazil
On 25 March 2022, the Brazilian Institute for Consumer Protection (Idec) and the Latin American and Caribbean Nutrition and Health Community of Practice (COLANSA) held a webinar on “Food Systems: debating advances and paths for Latin America.” The event marked the...
An International Pact on Monitoring for Accountability for Action on Food Systems
A Call to Action for Scientists and Food Monitoring Experts. In light of the global engagement around the United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS), it is clear that concrete commitments are required from solution clusters, action coalitions, and Member States, to...
1st Africa Food Environment Research Network (FERN) meeting held in November 2020
The Africa Food Environment Research Network (FERN) held an inaugural meeting via Zoom on 3-5 November, 2020. The meeting brought together MEALS4NCDs project team and partners, INFORMAS Network Members, researchers in the African sub-region, as well as those from the...
World Public Health Nutrition Congress 2020
INFORMAS Symposium to be held at World Public Health Nutrition Congress 202031 March - 3 April 2020 Brisbane Convention & Exhibition CentreQueensland, Australia.