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News Oct 08, 24

New study highlights the modest impact of weight bias reduction interventions in healthcare students

A new study explores the effectiveness of interventions designed to reduce weight bias among healthcare students.

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News Oct 08, 24

New study finds gastric bypass most effective for improving cardiac structure among bariatric surgeries

A new study explores the comparative effectiveness of different bariatric surgeries on improving cardiac structure.

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News Policy & Advocacy Sep 30, 24

Growing recognition of obesity at the heart of the NCD response

We attended and participated in a number of events with members and obesity stakeholders at UNGA 79.

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News Member news Sep 30, 24

Welcoming new members from Bahrain, Bangladesh, China, Costa Rica and Slovakia

We are delighted to welcome five new organisations as World Obesity members.

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News SCOPE Sep 24, 24

SCOPE School Melbourne held at IFSO Congress

World Obesity, in collaboration with IFSO, held a SCOPE School at this year’s IFSO Congress in Melbourne

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News Policy & Advocacy Sep 23, 24

A year to act: Paving the way to the 2025 UN High-Level Meeting on NCDs

Addressing obesity must be at the heart of the global NCD response if we are to stem the tide of rising NCDs.

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News Sep 20, 24

New study explores the impact of behavioural weight management on children’s eating behaviour traits

New study has shed light on how BWMIs affect eating behaviour traits in children living with overweight and obesity.

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News Sep 18, 24

New study provides guidelines for conducting paediatric obesity pharmacotherapy clinical trials

New study in our journal offers key guidelines to improve safety and efficacy of paediatric obesity medication trials.

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News Sep 16, 24

IOTF’s champion Tim Cole celebrates a life in statistics

The creator of IOTF celebrated his life as a medical statistician at the UCL Great Ormond Institute of Child Health.

Training & Events

SCOPE E-Learning

We offer the only internationally recognised course on obesity management. Read more here.

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Data

Global Obesity Observatory

We offer various statistics, maps and key data around the topic of obesity. You can find all that and more here.

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Policy & Advocacy

Our Policy Priorities

We have developed five key areas of policy that are a priority to us. Want to know more? Check them out here!

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