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Announcing the Third Lecture in our Public Health in Action Seminar Series
“Levelling the playing field-Food Policy for Equal Population Nutrition in Cork: The path to developing Ireland's first Urban Food Policy”. Dr Janas Harrington
We are delighted to invite you to the third seminar in our Public Health in Action Seminar Series.
Presented by Dr Janas Harrington, Senior Lecturer, BSc Programme Director and Chair SPH Graduate Studies Committee.
Wednesday 13th November 2024
Time: 13:00-14:00
Please join us in person in
Room G16 in the Western Gateway Building UCC
or to join the Seminar online via MS Teams, please click here.
Bio: Dr Janas Harrington Janas is a Senior Lecturer and Director for the BSc Public Health Sciences, School of Public Health UCC and Chair of the Cork Food Policy Council. She is leading the Food Policy Research team in the Centre for Health and Diet Research, School of Public Health, UCC.
In recent years recognising the importance of the upstream determinants of dietary behaviours her research focus is at the food policy level. Funding from the EU Joint Programme Initiative Healthy Diet for a Healthy Life funding, as part of the European Policy Evaluation Network (PEN https://www.jpi-pen.eu/) afforded her the opportunity to collaborate with the INFORMAS network to lead the development of Ireland’s first Healthy Food Environment Policy Index (Food EPI) benchmarking the Irish food environments against international best practice.
This work has been a springboard for further national and international collaborations and including Horizon Europe funding on " Food Systems that support transitions to healthy and sustainable diets (FEAST)" https://feast2030.eu/ and ERA4Health Equity funding to explore “Food systems and policy pathways for equal population nutrition in Europe (FOODPATH)”.