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Can health research unlock the secrets on maintaining a healthy weight? Find out in this live webinar on 3 Apr 6-7pm with MRC Epidemiology Unit's Prof Nick Wareham & Dr Amy Ahern, part of the 2025 #CamFest. Book your free ticket on EventBrite bit.ly/RESmaHW Cambridge Festival Cambridge University Hospitals NHS

Anyone interested in working with me Inst Metabolic Science-Metabolic Research Labs Cambridge University on how AMGEN's new obesity drug works? I have a 3 year postdoc position available! Deadline March 31st! please share jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50529/

Repost from @mrc_epid • For International Women’s Day, we celebrate the diversity of voices that drive the transformative power of science. Meet Dan Rowden.marie_spreckley , Research Programme Manager, @mrc_epid

Repost from MRC Epidemiology Unit • #ChildNutrition #FoodInsecurity #Responsive #MRCepid #FamilySystems #SPROUTStudy Cara Ruggiero, PhD, RD, LDN

Wonderful night celebrating the successful book launch of our beautiful friend Alison Cork MBE. We’re so proud of you! 🙂🥂 @DollyvanT

EASO Early Career Network Spotlight: Meet Cara Ruggiero, PhD, RD, LDN, a Research Associate in the MRC Epidemiology Unit at Cambridge University 🇬🇧. Carla is also a behavioural nutrition researcher and registered dietitian. Learn more about her research: easo.org/easo-early-car…

I’m hiring! Exciting new opportunity to join our team at UCL Centre for Obesity Research as a Research Assistant to help support my NIHR fellowship on Obesity & Kidney Failure. If you’re interested click the link below Closing date 21st April 2025 ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/se…

We did an analysis for the Lords Committee on Food, Diet and Obesity House of Lords Food, Diet and Obesity Committee to look at the overlap between foods high in salt, fat and sugar (HFSS) and ultra-processed (UPF). We extended the analysis and it is published today (open access): nutrition.bmj.com/content/early/…

Congratulations to @cubcsquad Women's Blue Boat on winning The Boat Race 👏🎉 We are so proud of you!

The World Health Organization (WHO) warns of severe disruptions to #health services amid funding cuts. World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that in around 25 per cent of countries, some health facilities have had to close completely due to cuts, according to figures from more than 100

📢 We Are Hiring!! 📢 [Part-time remote working for Cambridge University MRC Epidemiology Unit] We are recruiting Intervention Facilitators for a NIHR-funded trial - perfect for health coaches/assistant psychs/student dietitians with an interest in weight management. jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51082/

Job alert ! My colleagues are recruiting Intervention Facilitators for a NIHR-funded trial - perfect for health coaches/assistant psychs/student dietitians with an interest in weight management.

Study shows disproportionate increase in extremely severe #obesity. Prevalence of body mass index BMI 50–59.9 kg/m2 and BMI ≥60 kg/m2 in the USA 🇺🇸 are increasing more rapidly than other BMI categories. Individuals with BMI ≥60 kg/m2 face greater comorbidities, higher

Four weeks left to apply for 2025 Awards 🏆 by the #UNIATF United Nations Inter-Agency Task Force on the Prevention and Control of Non-communicable Diseases @UN Task Force #NCDs that this year recognize organizations that are working on #obesity prevention and control. Since 2018, these

The UK government is considering expanding its #sugartax on fizzy drinks 🥤 to include milkshakes and other sweetened beverages . The soft drinks industry levy was introduced in 2018 to reduce people’s sugar intake and help tackle #obesity. For soft drinks 🧋containing 5-8g

📢Save the date for this important #WHA78 high-level advocacy event on 20 May 2025: Childhood onset NCDs: Leaving no one behind with policy changes for Type 1 Diabetes and Obesity,  20 May 2025, 7.45-9:00 am (breakfast meeting) Ballroom B/C, Hotel InterContinental, Geneva. This

Full room at the important event “Unpacking Ultra-Processed: the role of front-of-pack labeling in promoting healthier diets” this evening on the eve of #WHA78 World Health Assembly in Geneva. Critical conversation arranged by the World Health Organization (WHO) and Bloomberg Philanthropies around development of

It was a pleasure attending the launch of The Food Foundation 's new report: “Boosting Early Years Nutrition to Support a Healthy Childhood.” Many thanks to Hannah Brinsden as well as the other organizers and speakers for a lovely event.

Karen Hofman and Susan Goldstein cal for G20 to implement health taxes to tackle the rising tide of NCDs. The numbers are staggering, the arguments compelling. theconversation.com/sugary-drinks-…

Very happy to see this out! As well as the below, Alison and I discuss how factors associated with populism - such as online misinformation - may exacerbate health inequalities. blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpol… Please do reach out to let us know what you think