Given the complexity of the food system – with its many actors spanning agriculture, processing, manufacturing, catering, retail and consumption – meaningful progress towards supporting the UK population to have healthier eating habits requires collaboration. Innovation, new product development and evidence-based interventions all play essential roles in reshaping the food system. The UK’s strong track record in nutrition science, rich dietary data resources and globally recognised nutrition policy expertise positions it well to contribute to improve diet and health. However, for research to deliver its full impact, it must be translatable into real-world public health benefits. This depends on strong partnerships between funders, researchers, government and industry. Cross-sector collaboration can unlock greater investment in innovation and accelerate the development of practical solutions.
Join this thought-provoking online event to hear the viewpoints of a wide range of representatives from across the food system and academia, with a focus on:
- Setting the scene: a look at diet at the centre of the UK health crisis, and the collaborative research landscape, for example the Diet and Health OIRC, the National Alternative Protein Innovation Centre (NAPIC), the Bezos Centre for Sustainable Protein, and the AfN Network.
- Working across the academic industry boundary: partnerships for innovation in diet and health, featuring keynote presentations, collaboration case studies and panels from both the research and agri-food sector perspectives.
- The social, environmental and economic imperative for change: perspectives from representatives of the Diet and Health OIRC Hubs.
Organisations represented include:
- Bezos Centre for Sustainable Protein
- British Nutrition Foundation
- Food Systems and Food Policy Consultancy
- King's College London
- PepsiCo UK
- Quadram Institute
- Sainsbury's
- Tate & Lyle
- THIS
- Swansea University
- University of Leeds
- Yakult