Featured Speaker

Stefanie Vandevijvere
Senior Scientist, Public Health Nutrition, Epidemiology and Public Health
BIA Obesity
Dr Stefanie Vandevijvere is a Senior Scientist in Public health nutrition at Sciensano, the scientific institute of Public Health in Belgium. She is a member of the leadership team of the International Network for Food and Obesity/NCDs Research Monitoring and Action Support (INFORMAS). Her research aims to support the development and implementation of policies to effectively and equitably improve the quality of population diets. In particular she has an interest in the role of food environments in determining people’s dietary habits and how to hold governments and food businesses to account for their actions to create healthy food environments to effectively reduce obesity.