Rethinking diet, weight and health in and after the COVID-19 pandemic

Prof Susan Jebb and Prof Sir Charles Godfray in conversation

Date: 19 November 2020, 5:00pm - 6:00pm

Location: Online

The current covid-19 pandemic has focussed attention on the variability in personal risk of serious illness. After age and ethnicity, one of the most important factors associated with developing serious covid complications, requiring admission to hospital or ICU, is being overweight.

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Professor Susan Jebb is a nutrition scientist with a special interest in designing and testing public health interventions to prevent and treat obesity. In this conversation, we shall explore the policy options available to governments and other bodies to tackle obesity and ask whether, as we emerge from the pandemic, there will be a new focus on the benefits of a healthy body weight.