A Taste of Healthcare Webinar Series March-April 2022

Iss Das 3.0 - Event #6

Event 1 of 5: The Power and Perils of Nutrition

Date: March 23, 2022
Time: 7pm – 8:30pm CET
Speakers: Niklas Oppenrieder, MD and Pauline Scheelbeek, Ph.D.
Language: English
Location: Zoom webinar
Registration: Required
Cost: Donation-based

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About this event

Part 1: “The Power of Nutrition” with Niklas Oppenrieder, MD

The opening event of the webinar series will cover the major links between nutrition and the biggest global health crises.

We all know that food plays an important role in the development, prevention and treatment of most noncommunicable diseases. But, actually how powerful is that role, and how does it compare to other (lifestyle) factors?

In the first presentation of the evening, Niklas Oppenrieder will shed light on these questions. He’ll introduce you to the connections between our food choices and communicable diseases, mainly through their impact on zoonotic risk and antimicrobial resistance.

Part 2: “Accelerating Shifts to Healthy, Sustainable and Resilient Diets: Challenges and Opportunities” with Pauline Scheelbeek, Ph.D.

In the second half of the event, Dr. Pauline Scheelbeek will cover the complex links between climate change, diet and health. She will give a number of examples of successful (and less successful) global, national and regional strategies to facilitate dietary change at the population level, as well as their co-benefits and co-harms for health, environmental sustainability and resilience, and the economy. Furthermore, she will discuss the challenges of increasing adherence to “sustainable and healthy dietary guidelines” and the potential leverage points for accelerating dietary change in Europe.

About the series

“A Taste of Healthcare” webinar series covers the links between nutrition and some of our most pressing global health threats. We are extremely happy to welcome a selection of leading international researchers in their fields to share their knowledge with you during the series. The series provides medical students with the knowledge, motivation, and tools to implement optimal nutrition in clinical practice and healthcare systems.

There are a total of five 90-minute webinars in this series with one or two speakers per event, plus a Q&A / discussion session afterwards. Please register in advance for each individual event by clicking on the register buttons on each event registration page. Please note that you will be redirected to Zoom to complete your registration. Registration for all events in the series is also possible. Please only register for all events if you intend to participate in all of them as spaces are limited.

Participation certificates and recordings

PAN Members will receive a participation certificate for their attendance at these webinars. Please make sure you use the email address linked to your PAN Membership account when registering.

The recording of all webinars in this series will be made available (subject to speaker permission) to PAN members in the webinar recordings area once the series is complete.

Not a member yet? Find out more here.

Speakers

Niklas Oppenrieder, MD

Niklas Oppenrieder, MD, is the co-founder and Global Director Strategy & Development at PAN International. Having worked mainly in paediatrics during his clinical career he is committed to intervening on the root causes of many diseases, which led him to his current focus on lifestyle medicine and nutrition. Since PAN’s early days, Niklas has been scanning the literature around medicine and nutrition to provide medical students and other health professionals with the bigger picture on the manyfold links between food and health.

    Pauline Scheelbeek, Ph.D.

    Pauline Scheelbeek is an Assistant Professor in Nutritional and Environmental Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. She is also the Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre on Climate Change, Health and Sustainable Development. Pauline’s research focuses on finding healthy, sustainable, resilient and realistic solutions that will accelerate transformational food system change, especially in the Global North.

    Currently, she leads the Accelerating Dietary Change Towards Predominantly Plant-based Diets in Europe project, co-leads the multi-country Sustainable and Health Food Systems (SHEFS) project and also co-leads the Food System Adaptations in Changing Environments in Africa (FACE-Africa) project in The Gambia. In this context, her team models future food systems for the UK, South Africa, India and The Gambia under several climate change, environmental, health and behaviour change scenarios. Pauline is an active STEM ambassador and frequently organises public engagement activities for school-aged children in the UK and sub-Saharan Africa around environmental, nutritional and health issues.

    About PAN University Groups

    This PAN webinar series is organised in cooperation with PAN University Groups, a project from the Physicians Association for Nutrition. This international community of medical students organises numerous activities and educational events on a local, national and international level to make nutrition a central part of every medical students’ education and professional toolkit. If you’re a medical student motivated to learn more about nutrition and how you can implement this valuable knowledge into effective patient care, then come along and find out more. At the end of each event in the Q&A session, we will give you more information about how you can get involved with PAN University Groups.

    Read more about PAN University Groups here.

    Other events in this series

    The events and links to the corresponding registration pages are as followed:

    We’re grateful for the partnership and support from the following international student organisations:

    ANEM

    Associação Nacional de Estudantes de Medicina (National Association of Medical Students Portugal)

    BVMD

    Bundesvertretung der Medizinstudierenden in Deutschland (Medical Students Association Germany)

    CEEM

    El Consejo Estatal de Estudiantes de Medicina (Medical Students Association Spain)

    IFMSA Poland

    Międzynarodowe Stowarzyzenie Sudetów Medycyny (International Federation of Medical Students' Associations Poland)

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