Nutrition Economics: Advancing the Research Agenda
The objective of the workshop Is to bring together academics and policy makers from a range of disciplines and locations to explore the existing state of nutrition economic research and how the research agenda can be developed to address methodological challenges and inform public health policies.
Nutrition economics is an emerging sub-discipline within health economics, dedicated to researching and characterising the health and economic outcomes in nutrition for the benefit of society. It offers scope for improving long term health outcomes and reducing health care expenditures through functional foods and other dietary means. Challenges exist, however, in the application of standard techniques of economic evaluation in health care and pharmacoeconomics to the fields of nutrition and public health, and these remain to be fully addressed. The workshop will bring together international experts from a range of relevant fields to deliver and discuss recent and ongoing nutrition economic research. It aims to encourage interdisciplinary debate that will lead to advances in the discipline and opportunities for policy impact.
ORGANISERS
Heather Gage, Professor of Health Economics and Director of the Surrey Health Economics Centre
Monique Raats, Professor of Public Health Nutrition and Director of the Food, Consumer Behaviour and Health Research Centre.
The event is part of the programme of work within the FP7 EU funded REDICLAIM project that includes a work package on nutrition economic modelling.
Workshop Report
The report for this workshop is available to download below.
