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Joint CEDAR International Strategic Advisory Group Scientific Meeting Cambridge Research Institute

Joint CEDAR International Strategic Advisory Group Scientific Meeting Cambridge Research Institute Tuesday 24 th January 2012. Welcome. People working in and around CEDAR International Strategic Advisory Group Representatives from funding organisations.

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Joint CEDAR International Strategic Advisory Group Scientific Meeting Cambridge Research Institute

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  1. Joint CEDAR International Strategic Advisory Group Scientific Meeting Cambridge Research Institute Tuesday 24th January 2012

  2. Welcome • People working in and around CEDAR • International Strategic Advisory Group • Representatives from funding organisations

  3. International Strategic Advisory Group • Paul Cosford (chair) - Interim Director of Health Protection Services, HPA • Willem van Mechelen • Head, Department of Public and Occupational Health and Co-Director, EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, VU University Medical Centre • Sabina Syed • Managing Director, Visions4health • Frans van der Ouderaa • Director, Netherlands Consortium for Healthy Aging, Leiden University Medical Centre • Barry Popkin • Head, Division of Nutrition Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina

  4. Aim is to develop effective public health interventions for changing dietary and physical activity behaviours at the population level • CEDAR Partnership: • Medical Research Council, University of East Anglia, University of Cambridge • Erpho – East of England Public Health Observatory

  5. CEDAR Objectives • Develop understanding of the population-level determinants of dietary and physical activity behaviour • Translate this understanding into the development of preventive interventions • Evaluate the effectiveness of population-level interventions • Estimate the public health impact of population-level interventions • Develop the capacity for undertaking public health research • Communicate with policy makers, industry and the public to ensure that research is informed by needs and to facilitate translation of findings into public health action

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