Economics of Obesity

Please join us Wednesday, the 20th of March where Dr. Irina Pokhilenko will present on “Economics of Obesity”

Dr. Irina Pokhilenko is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Economics of Obesity at the University of Birmingham (UK). Irina obtained her PhD in Health Economics at Maastricht University (the Netherlands) in 2022. Her PhD was focused on the development of methods for conducting multi-sectoral multi-national economic evaluations in the European context. Since 2021, she has been based at the University of Birmingham. Her research focuses on wider determinants of obesity, with a particular focus on the economics of school food provision.’

Our in-person meeting will be in held in classroom 1 on the 3rd floor of the Sports Science Institute of South Africa. For those watching online, we have a zoom link below. The meeting starts at 1 pm. We will spend the first 10-15 minutes on announcements (grants, publications etc) and research centre business. The webinar starts at 1pm. For those who are only joining us for the webinar presentation remotely, please only join at 1pm.  Please note we have one zoom link for both meetings

In terms of CPD points, there will be a google form link and QR code sent during the seminar that you will be able to fill out.