Webinar: Let’s Talk about Obesity &… the Right to Healthy School Food Environments
March 8 2024
10:00AM JA/11:00AM AST
The objectives of the session:
Highlight the experience of children/young people in their school food environments
Emphasize existing School Nutrition Policies in the region
Emphasize the importance of a rights-based approach in addressing childhood obesity and advocating for healthy school food environments
Welcome:
Danielle Walwyn, Advocacy Officer and Coordinator of Healthy Caribbean Youth, Healthy Caribbean Coalition
Opening Remarks:
Dr. Christine Chin, Director, Healthy Caribbean Coalition, Board Certified Obesity Medicine Specialist
UNICEF Rep (TBC)
Moderator: Rosanna Pike, Advocacy Officer, Heart Foundation of Jamaica
Presenters:
Nicole Griffith, Public Health Nutritionist and member of the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Barbados’ Barbados Childhood Obesity Coalition
Vonetta Nurse, Nutrition Officer, UNICEF Jamaica
Panelists:
Pierre (Kevin) Cooke Jr, Technical Advisor, Healthy Caribbean Coalition
Shereika Mills, Attorney-at-Law and LLM Student at Georgetown University Law Center
Shannique Bowden, Executive Director, Jamaica Youth Advocacy Network
Michron Robinson, Youth Advocacy Officer, Heart and Stroke Foundation of Barbados
Abi Begho,Programme Manager, Lake Health and Wellbeing
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