North East Obesity Forum
North East Obesity Forum
About NEOF:
The North East Obesity Forum (NEOF) aims to promote contact between members of all organisations in the North East of England that have an interest in any aspect of obesity and its health and social consequences. Through such interaction NEOF aims to support research into the causes and prevention of obesity, and to promote action to reduce its burden. NEOF is a regional group of the Association for the Study of Obesity (ASO: www.aso.org.uk). It holds two meetings annually (every May and November), bringing together national and regional perspectives. Attendance at these meeting is free and open to anyone with an interest in obesity.
NEOF Steering Group:
- Dr Amelia Lake (Chair), Durham University
amelia.lake@dur.ac.uk - Dr Louisa Ells, Teesside University
l.ells@tees.ac.uk - Dr Helen Moore, Durham University
helen.moore@durham.ac.uk - Dr Angela Jones, Newcastle University
angela.jones@ncl.ac.uk - Rachel Gallo, Newcastle University
Rachel.gallo@ncl.ac.uk - Samantha Todd, NHS Sunderland
Samantha.Todd@chsft.nhs.uk
Meetings Diary:
The next NEOF meeting will take place on the 9th of April 2013, at the University of Sunderland. The meeting with be run jointly with Fuse on obesity, school food and tackling inequalities. More information will follow in due course.
Reports and Presentations from previous meetings:
- 24th October 2012: Obesity and Preschool Children. To view the report from this meeting click here
- 17th May 2011: Obesity and Pregnancy,
The presentations from this workshop are available to download here:
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1 - Nicola Heslehurst May 2011 NEOF.pdf Adobe PDF file - 2.2 Mb | Downloaded: 276 times Uploaded: 2011-05-31 10:34:42 Email to a friend |
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2 - Judith Rankin May 2011 NEOF.pdf Adobe PDF file - 9.8 Mb | Downloaded: 143 times Uploaded: 2011-05-31 11:31:27 Email to a friend |
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3 - Gill Sedgewick May 2011 NEOF.pdf Adobe PDF file - 1.3 Mb | Downloaded: 135 times Uploaded: 2011-05-31 12:52:57 Email to a friend |
- 21st of October 2010: Obesity and Ethnicity. To read the seminar report please click here.
- 18th of May 2010: Childhood Obesity To read the seminar report please click here
- 21st May 2008: Childhood Obesity: measuring a growing problem:
Louisa Ells presentation - 12th November 2008: Obesogenic Environments Part 1: the food environment:
Meeting Report
For further information on the meetings, or any aspect of NEOF's activities, please contact any other member of the steering group.