Public Health Australian and New Zealand Obesity Society Annual Scientific Conference 2024
Plenary 1 - Public Health
10:15AM - 11:15AM
Wednesday, 16th October
Endeavour 1&2
Chair: Jane Martin
Concurrent 1 - Public Health: How to apply a systems approach to develop obesity prevention programs
11:30AM - 1:00PM
Wednesday, 16th October
Endeavour 1
Chairs: Tim Gill & Clare Hughes
Sponsored by:
- A decade of systems approaches to obesity prevention: what was that all about and where next? - Steve Allender
- What does a systems approach to obesity prevention look like (from a UK perspective)? - James Nobles
- The health and economic benefits of community-based obesity prevention interventions to improve z-BMI and weight-related behaviours in children and adolescents: a synthesis of six Australian trials - Jane Jacobs
- Making Healthy Happen - a whole-of-government commitment to a healthier Queensland - Li Kheng Chai
Concurrent 4 - Public Health Oral Abstracts: Early intervention to address obesity
2:00PM - 3:30PM
Wednesday, 16th October
Endeavour 1
Chairs: Rebecca Bennett & Rebecca Godwin
- Addressing the intractable problem of inadequate vegetable consumption - Simone Pettigrew
- An evaluation of a school nutrition program to improve accessibility to and consumption of vegetables and fruit among primary school students in Queensland, Australia: From ‘What’s this?’ to ‘I grew it!’ - Leila I Fathi
- Defining rapid infant weight gain from population-based data in New Zealand - Lisa Daniels
- The Long-Term Health Consequences of Early-life Malnutrition in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review - Frehiwot Birhanu Zurga
- Evaluating Education on Overweight and Obesity in Children in Australian Medical Curricula: Advancing Effective Training and Practice - Linda Ferrington
- Snacks for young Australians – Just empty energy? - Andrea Schmidtke
Concurrent 7 - Public Health: Programs to prevent childhood obesity
4:00PM - 5:30PM
Wednesday, 16th October
Endeavour 1
Chairs: Tim Gill & Kristy Bolton
- Prevention of childhood obesity in The Netherlands: experiences and lessons learned. - Jacob Seidell
- Preventing Childhood Obesity through Public Health Programs: Success Stories and Scaling Strategies - Rebecca K Golley
- Integrating health literacy and cultural considerations into a web-based program promoting healthy behaviours in infants - Danielle Jawad
- Dissemination of healthy eating and physical activity policies and practices information among Early Childhood Education and Care services: a qualitative study. - Ana Renda
Concurrent 10 - Public Health: Community Behaviour Change programs
11:40AM - 1:10PM
Thursday, 17th October
Endeavour 1
Chairs: Miaobing Zheng & Rebecca Golley
- Lessons learnt from childhood overweight prevention programs - Berit L Heitmann
- Transforming the way we deliver virtual health coaching for population-based healthy eating and active living behaviour change in NSW - Emma Quinn
- Motivating Western Australians to Move More! Evaluating LiveLighter®’s physical activity digital media campaign - Rebecca Godwin
- The development, delivery and evaluation of a health promotion campaign to drive healthy habits in families. - Clare Murray
Concurrent 13 - Public Health Oral Abstracts: Population action in addressing obesity
2:30PM - 4:00PM
Thursday, 17th October
Endeavour 1
Chairs: Belinda Morley & Enola Kay
- Developing a comprehensive and coordinated approach to obesity advocacy - Clare Hughes
- Developing a framework to enable clinical health promotion across the healthcare system in Queensland, Australia. - Li Kheng Chai
- The relationships between socioeconomic status, frequency and dose of beverage consumption, and cognitive function - Kerri M Gillespie
- Uptake of voluntary versus mandatory food labels: A natural experiment in Australia - Alexandra Jones
- The relationship between use of digital food retail environments and associated sociodemographic characteristics: a multi-country analysis - Rebecca Bennett
- Predictors of healthy and unhealthy food and drink sales in Victorian primary schools - Helen G Dixon
Concurrent 16 - Public Health Workshop: Improving your research through effective engagement of the lived experience voice
4:30PM - 5:30PM
Thursday, 17th October
Endeavour 1
Chair: Tim Gill
Concurrent 19 - Public Health Oral Abstracts: Action on health literacy and messaging for obesity prevention
11:00AM - 12:30PM
Friday, 18th October
Endeavour 1
Chairs: Simone Pettigrew & Kathryn Backholer
- What’s packing? Trends in attitudes, behaviours and confidence around lunchboxes amongst parents of primary school aged children. - Nicole James
- Parent and child choice of sugary drinks under four labelling conditions - Helen G Dixon
- Identifying the most effective added sugar warning label design for ready-made infant and toddler foods: An online experiment - Mamaru Awoke
- Pick me for kids: children's perspectives on healthy food and drink marketing in sport and recreation facilities - Li Kheng Chai
- Knowledge of obesity-related cancer risk factors via public health messaging and impact on dietary behaviour - Belinda Morley
- Consumer confidence and ability to identify ultra-processed foods - Joanne Dono
Concurrent 22 - Public Health: Regulatory actions to address obesity
1:30PM - 3:00PM
Friday, 18th October
Endeavour 1
Chairs: Joanne Dono & Helen Dixon
- Mitigating unintended consequences: Evaluating combined sugar and sweetener warning labels on beverage choices in a real-world selection task - Enola Kay
- Improving food environments and countering corporate power: the role of government regulation - Kathryn Backholer
- What's on the Table - key policy and regulatory initiatives in Australia. - Jane Martin
- Seeing is believing: how food pictures on packaged children's snacks influence parent's product perceptions. - Helen G Dixon
Concurrent 23 - Basic Science: Consequences and complications of obesity
1:30PM - 3:00PM
Friday, 18th October
La Perouse
Chairs: Vicky Tsai & Amanda Brandon
- Using genome-wide CRISPR screens to identify novel regulators of hepatic lipid metabolism - Magdalene K Montgomery
- Sex differences in peripheral artery disease - Mary Kavurma
- Investigation of hepatocyte cell models to recapitulate metabolic associated steatohepatitis - Mitchell T Hallam
- In-utero sucrose exposure increases risk of cardiac enlargement in C57BL6 mice offspring, regardless of postnatal diet. - Sophie Lucic Fisher