Course Description

As a follow-up to the April 6 virtual workshop on an overview of complex systems science, the Roundtable on Obesity Solutions hosted a virtual workshop on June 30 that explored systems and contributing factors that can influence obesity and incuded examples from the field that apply systems thinking to address obesity and the health and wellbeing of the population.

The workshop looked at existing societal systems that have the potential to shape public health, and consider opportunities for systems change as they relate to obesity solutions. Presenters explored how systems and contributing factors like inequity (i.e. social determinants), power dynamics, relationships, capacity, and political will affect systems that can influence obesity, and how they can impact effective communications and cross-sector collaboration to address obesity.