{"id":5664,"date":"2025-02-24T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/biwiki\/?p=5664"},"modified":"2025-02-24T10:28:47","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T17:28:47","slug":"bit-webinar-tackling-childhood-obesity-mar-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/biwiki\/2025\/02\/24\/bit-webinar-tackling-childhood-obesity-mar-11\/","title":{"rendered":"BIT Webinar: Tackling Childhood Obesity (Mar 11)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From the folks at BIT &amp; Nesta:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Tackling childhood obesity: Lessons from Amsterdam<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>With childhood obesity on the rise in many countries around the world, what can we learn from Amsterdam\u2019s success in reversing the trend?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Join us on Tuesday 11 March, 9:30\u201310:30 GMT, to explore how the Amsterdam Healthy Weight Programme &#8211; one of the most ambitious obesity reduction initiatives in the world &#8211; has driven real impact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019ll be joined by VU University\u2019s Professor Jacob C. Seidell, co-director of the research institute evaluating the Amsterdam Healthy Weight Programme, in conversation with Nesta and BIT CEO Ravi Gurumurthy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wednesday 11 March | 1:30-2:30 am Pacific<br>Online or in person | 58 Victoria Embankment, London<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventsforce.net\/nesta\/298\/register\">Click to register<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join BIT and Nesta for a webinar that asks: With childhood obesity on the rise in many countries, what can we learn from Amsterdam\u2019s success in reversing the trend? [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28042,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"templates\/template-full-width.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/biwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/biwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/biwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/biwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28042"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/biwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5664"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/biwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5673,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/biwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5664\/revisions\/5673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/biwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/biwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/biwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}