Science & Technology in childhood Obesity Policy (STOP)
Principal Investigator: Professor Franco Sassi
Funder: European Commission (H2020 SC2)
Duration: June 2018 – May 2022
Website: stopchildobesity.eu
The STOP project has brought together a range of key health and food sector actors to generate scientifically sound and policy-relevant evidence on the factors that have contributed to the spread of childhood obesity in European Countries. Over the course of four years the European Commission-funded collaborative will posit alternative policy options to address the problem.
The research will expand and consolidate the multidisciplinary evidence base upon which effective and sustainable policies can be built to prevent and manage childhood obesity. STOP also aims at creating the conditions for evidence to translate into policy and for policy to translate into impacts on the ground.
The primary focus of STOP is on the cumulative impacts of multiple and synergistic exposures in vulnerable and socially disadvantaged children and their families, which must be a priority target for the fight against childhood obesity in Europe to reach a tipping point and succeed. STOP will identify critical stages in childhood (starting from prenatal exposures) at which interventions can be most effective and efficient.
Major health and food sector actors, including scientists, health professionals, government policy makers, national public health agencies, international organisations, civil society and business organisations are working together to establish mechanisms through which policy-relevant evidence can be generated, made available and used in the design and implementation of effective and sustainable solutions for the childhood obesity problem at the EU, National and local levels. The project has adopted a trans-disciplinary, multi-stakeholder and multi-sectoral (whole-of-government) approach, in a “Health-in-all-policies” framework. In the pursuit of the above goals, the project will benefit from the support and contributions of partners from non-European countries (United States and New Zealand), who will complement the expertise of European partners and share valuable experiences in addressing childhood obesity.
Partners
- Imperial College London, United Kingdom
- Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Italy
- Tervise Arengu Instituut, Estonia
- Istituto di Studi per l’Integrazione dei Sistemi (ISIS), Italy
- Victor Babeș University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Timișoara, Romania
- Instituto de Saúde Pública da Universidade do Porto (ISPUP), Portugal
- Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, France
- University of Hasselt, Belgium
- European Public Health Alliance, Belgium
- World Obesity Federation, United Kingdom
- University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Karolinska Institute, Sweden
- Nacionalni inštitut za javno zdravje, Slovenia
- University of Zagreb, Croatia
- University of Auckland, New Zealand
- The Barcelona Institute for Global Health, Spain
- University of Turin, Italy
- National Institute for Health and Welfare, Finland
- World Health Organization, Switzerland
- CIBER – Center for Biomedical Research Network, Spain
- Directorate-General for Health, Portugal
- University of Southern California, United States
- HEC, France
- AgroParisTech, France
Third Parties
Work Packages & Description
WP1: Coordination & Management
WP2: Measuring childhood Obesity
WP3: Key determinants of Childhood Obesity
WP4: Regulation & Fiscal Policies
WP5: Consumer Behaviour
WP6: Healthy food and food choice environments
WP7: Physical activity
WP8: Health care
WP9: Policy analysis methodology and knowledge translation
WP10: Multi-stakeholder action
WP11: Dissemination & exploitation