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FOODPATH consortium members travelled to Cádiz for the ISBNPA 25th annual conference.
Dr Maartje Poelman of Wageningen University and Research in the Netherlands presented “Systemic change for equitable healthy diets: a participatory systems approach with citizens and stakeholders in lower-income neighbourhoods in four European countries”, summarising the Group Model Building studies conducted by FOODPATH teams in the Netherlands, Poland and Ireland. Dr Kerstin Sell of ERA4Health YAHEE and Dr Nicole den Braver of ERA4Health IMPAQT also presented at the symposium, while Dr Margaret Steele of the UCC FOODPATH team chaired.
A key aim of the symposium was to discuss common threads and mutually supportive findings relating to equity, and to discuss how we can best use our work to advance the goals of the ERA4Health HealthEquity stream. The presentations were followed by comments from discussants Dr Wilma Waterlander (Public Health Dynamics Lab, Amsterdam UMC) and Prof Catherine Woods (Chair, Physical Activity for Health, University of Limerick; ERA4Health IMPAQT) as well as plenty of interesting questions and comments from attendees.
