by chris | 21 Apr 2022 | Latest developments
The MEP Interest Group on Obesity and Health System Resilience welcomes the formal establishment of the European Parliament Special Committee on COVID-19 which was constituted this week. Both our Chair MEP Pernille Wiess (EPP-DK) and one of our Vice Chairs Sara Cerdas...
by chris | 26 Oct 2021 | Latest developments
Our chair, MEP Pernille Weiss, discusses ways to achieve the set goal of reducing obesity rates by 30% as part of the Farm2Fork strategy, during a plenary debate in Strasbourg on Monday 18 October...
by chris | 05 Jul 2021 | Latest developments
Dear Ambassadors to the EU Council of Ministers Dear College of European Commissioners, Dear esteemed fellow Members of the European Parliament, Subject: Obesity and Health Systems Resilience: A Call to Action at EU and national level As we build a new reality across...
by chris | 21 Apr 2021 | Latest developments
On April 20th, over 300 key European stakeholders joined the launch of the MEP Interest Group on Obesity and Health System Resilience. There was a strong consensus on the need to not only include but prioritise policies that can support access to the treatment and...
by chris | 04 Mar 2021 | Latest developments
MEP Pernille Weiss, Chair of the MEP Group for Obesity and Health System Resilience, discusses the need to address obesity during the European obesity policy conference:’Addressing Obesity: unlocking the key to resilient health systems’ organised by EASO...