The World Health Organisation (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Obesity Prevention was established at Deakin University in 2003. Its terms of reference are to:
- support WHO to provide expert advice to Member States on developing, advocating for, implementing and evaluating system-based strategies for complex problems like obesity as requested and/or agreed with WHO
- support WHO to provide technical support to Member States with population-level research (target setting, guideline and indicator development, cost effectiveness analysis, monitoring and surveillance, evaluation) on obesity as requested and/or agreed with WHO
- assist WHO to strengthen the skills of professionals and academics in the science of obesity prevention and in promoting healthy eating and physical activity through the life-course as requested and/or agreed with WHO
Our WHO Collaborating Centre leaders are Professor Steve Allender, Professor Colin Bell and Associate Professor Gary Sacks.
WHO Responsible Officers are Dr Juliawati Untoro, Western Pacific Regional Office, Manila, Philippines and Dr Chrizuru Nishida, WHO Headquarters, Geneva, Switzerland