The FOODPATH team at UCC has conducted Group Model Building sessions in Cork city. Focusing on the southwest of the city, including the neighbourhoods of Togher, Ballyphehane, Greenmount, Deerpark and the Lough.
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Our Impact
In FOODPATH, we strive to explore the wider food environment to understand what is driving food behaviours and to propose solutions to change the food environment to provide equal opportunities for all citizens to access safe, affordable, and nutritious food.
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UCC have completed their Group Model Building Sessions for FOODPATH
22 Apr 2025
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FOODPATH presentation at the ERA4Health Early Career Network Event in Frankfurt.
04 Apr 2025
Klaudia Alcer, from the Polish FOODPATH team, and Evita van Duin from the Belgium team, had the pleasure of attending the Early Career Network meeting in Frankfurt. This network aims to provide a platform for early-career researchers, fostering skill development, mutual learning, and to create connections for potential collaborations.
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Food-EPI Türkiye Workshops
03 Apr 2025
Four online workshops (19-20 March and 26-27 March) have been completed in the process of developing the Healthy Food Environment Policy Index for Türkiye (Food-EPI Türkiye).
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FOODPATH presentation at the Flemish Institute of Healthy Living.
03 Apr 2025
"Last week, Evita van Duin had the opportunity to present the work of the Belgium FOODPATH team to professionals from the Flemish Institute of Healthy Living.
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WP 3.4: Policy mapping at national level to identify policy implementation gaps to address food-related inequalities in Türkiye (Food-EPI Türkiye)
20 Feb 2025
In the framework of the development of the Healthy Food Environment Policy Index for Turkey (Food-EPI Turkey), a face-to-face workshop was organised with experts. Further workshops will take place online.
We would like to thank all participants for their contributions.
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Food environment stakeholder power analysis at UCC
13 Feb 2025
UCC’s FOODPATH team recently invited the rest of our colleagues on the Food Policy Research Team to join us for a workshop to discuss which stakeholders would be best placed to help us improve food environments in disadvantaged areas of Cork city. This stakeholder power analysis will be used in conjunction with the results of our Group Model Building sessions, to identify leverage points for change in local food environments.
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WP 3.4: Policy mapping at national-level to identify policy implementation gaps to address food-related inequalities in Türkiye (Food-EPI Türkiye)
22 Jan 2025
The evidence document prepared within the scope of the work package for the development of a Food-EPI Türkiye was sent to the government office for evaluation.
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Wageningen University have completed the first set of Group Model Building sessions for FOODPATH
08 Jan 2025
Insightful sessions have been held with professionals and citizens in Ede, the Netherlands, about systemic drivers of dietary behaviours among people living in socioeconomic insecurity as outlined in Work package One (WP1)
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A new European-wide initiative led by a researcher at University College Cork (UCC) is to identify and understand the wide causes of food inequality.
13 Oct 2024
- FOODPATH is an initiative dedicated to identifying and addressing the determinants of food-related inequalities in Europe.
- The €1.6 million project includes partners from six European countries and is led by Dr Janas Harrington in the School of Public Health at UCC.
- FOODPATH will provide the necessary structural changes to ensure all European citizens, regardless of socioeconomic status, can make healthier food choices.