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About us

The World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Physical Activity, Nutrition and Obesity was established under the auspices of WHO's head office in Geneva to influence policy and public health work on chronic disease prevention globally.

In particular, the centre focuses on physical activity promotion, public health nutrition, obesity prevention and diabetes prevention, and will work in developed and developing countries, as chronic disease is prevalent in most countries across the globe.

The centre is a collaboration between the University of Sydney’sÌýÌýÌý²¹²Ô»åÌýÌýwith theÌýCharles Perkins Centre.

Terms of Reference

• To support WHO in the implementation and monitoring of the Global Action Plan on Physical Activity 2018-2030 and strengthening country capacity for implementation.
• To support WHO with non-communicable disease prevention and management, specifically diabetes and the new Global Diabetes Compact
• To provide ad hoc technical advice to WHO on physical activity and diabetes and related areas of nutrition and obesity, specifically in monitoring and surveillance systems, interventions and policy implementation and evaluation, and translation and scale-up of NCD prevention programs.

Workplan major themes

• Technical support on effective interventionsÌýtoÌýpromote physical activity among older adults
• Technical support to strengthen implementation of national communication campaigns on physical activity, includingÌýthoseÌýspecifically focused on older adult
• Development of a framework forÌýunderstandingÌýregulatory approaches to promoting physical activity
• Inform WHO’s effort to develop a prioritized research agenda for the Global Diabetes Compact
• Technical support to inform the adaptation of WHO guidance on insulin treatment
• Develop and evaluate systems approaches to physicalÌýactivity promotion
• BuildÌýevidence on the relationship between sport,Ìýthe Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)Ìýand the Global Action Plan on Physical Activity

Reports

• Systematic review of the association between inherited genetic variants and response to blood glucose lowering therapies 2017
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Media

• Media release:Ìý
  
• Media release:
• ABC Radio National interview: Professor Adrian Bauman on RN Breakfast with Fran Kelly
• WHO physical activity and sedentary behaviour guidelines co-led by the University of Sydney

Our people

• Emeritus ProfessorÌý, Sesquicentenary Professor of Public Health (Co-Director)
• Emeritus ProfessorÌý, Professor of Metabolic HealthÌý(Co-Director)
• ProfessorÌý
• ProfessorÌýAnne Tiedemann
• Associate ProfessorÌýSamantha Hocking
• Adjunct ProfessorÌýBill Bellew
• Professor Anthony Okley, University of Wollongong
• Associate Professor Karen Milton, University of East Anglia
• ProfessorÌýCathie Sherrington
• ProfessorÌýEmmanuel Stamatakis
• Professor Ben Smith
• DrÌýLindsey Reece
• ProfessorÌý
• ProfessorÌýHidde van der Ploeg, University of Amsterdam

Administration Officer

Cathie Kiernan
Phone: +61 2 8627 1849Ìý
Email:Ìýcatherine.kiernan@sydney.edu.au

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