Name:
Wolfgang Ahrens
Organisation:
Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology – BIPS, Bremen, Germany
Title-Position:
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Deputy Director of the Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology- BIPS, Bremen, Germany. Head of Department Epidemiological Methods and Etiologic Research. Professor for Epidemiologic Methods, University of Bremen, Germany, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science.
Country:
Germany
Expertise:
Epidemiology, Public Health, Etiology of obesity, Metabolic diseases,
Cancer (head and neck cancer, lung cancer), Lifestyle and occupational risk factors, Primary prevention
Other activities (e.g., membership of other advisory boards):
European Childhood Obesity Group (ECOG), International Commission on Occupational Health (ICOH) and Scientific Committee Epidemiology in Occupational Health, Society for Epidemiologic Research (SER), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Medizinische Informatik, Biometrie und Epidemiologie (GMDS),Deutsche Gesellschaft für Epidemiologie (DGEpi),International Epidemiological Association (IEA), German Competence Network on Obesity (CNO), Member of the Board of Directors of The German National Cohort (GNC), Member of the DEDIPAC Management Team, Deputy Leader Thematic Aerea 1 and Leader of WP 1.3
Name:
Mario Mazzocchi
Organisation:
University of Bologna, Department of Statistical Sciences
Title-Position:
Associate Professor of Economic Statistics
Country:
Italy
Expertise:
- Evaluation of food and nutrition policy
- Demand analysis and consumer behaviour
- Economics & Policy of obesity and nutrition
- Health economics
Other activities (e.g., membership of other advisory boards):
- Co-Editor in chief of "Food Policy"
Name:
Mark Conner
Organisation:
School of Psychology, University of Leeds
Title-Position:
Professor of Applied Social Psychology
Country:
UK
Expertise:
He is an expert on health behaviours and how to change them with particular expertise on dietary behaviours, physical activity and smoking.
Other activities (e.g., membership of other advisory boards):
- Fellow European Health Psychology Society
- Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (UK)
- Co-Editor in Chief, Psychology & Health (2011-2018)
Name:
Wim Verbeke
Organisation:
Ghent UniversityTitle-Position:
Professor of Agro-Food Marketing and Consumer Behaviour; Chairman of the Department of Agricultural Economics
Country:
Belgium
Expertise:
Attitude; Behaviour; Communication; Consumer; Economics; Food; Marketing.
Other activities (e.g., membership of other advisory boards):
- Active involvement as pillar, workpackage or task leader in EU-funded research projects such as EATWELL, FOODRISC, CLYMBOL and PROMISS, and as member of the Scientific Advisory Board of EURECCA and FOCUSBALKANS
- Member of the ETP Food4Life and ILSI Europe Expert Groups
- Scientific Expert Evaluator for ERC (EU) and national research funding organisations such as NWO (Netherlands), SNSF (Switzerland), ANR (France), AKF (Denmark) and DFG (Germany)
Name:
Dr Molly Byrne
Organisation:
National University of Ireland, Galway
Title-Position:
Senior Lecturer and Director of the Health Behaviour Change Research Group
Country:
Ireland
Expertise:
Dr Molly Byrne is a Senior Lecturer in Health Psychology at the National University of Ireland, Galway. In 2014 she was awarded a significant Health Research Board (HRB) Research Leadership Award (2014-2019) to establish and direct the Health Behaviour Change Research Group (HBCRG). This group aims to improve population health by developing and promoting an evidence-based behavioural science approach to health behaviour change interventions. The team are currently running a number of intervention development studies, pilot trials of interventions and definitive intervention trials. Studies are focused on areas including: self-management among young adults with Type 1 Diabetes; attendance at structured education programmes for people with Type 2 Diabetes; delivery of sexual counselling within hospital cardiac rehabilitation; interventions to increase physical activity among overweight pregnant women and interventions to promote healthy infant feeding delivered in primary care.
