Public Health Australian and New Zealand Obesity Society Annual Scientific Conference 2023

• If not sugar, then what? Non-nutritive sweeteners - Richard Young
• What should we be saying to policy makers and the community about non-nutritive sweetened beverages? - Caroline Miller
• Potential effects of extending sugar-sweetened beverage policies to non-sugar sweetened drinks - Kerry Ettridge
• Sweet deception: How marketing on infant and toddler foods may be misrepresenting sugar and sweetness - Andrea Schmidtke

• A platform of evidence-based brief tools to measure food intake, diet and obesity-related behaviours across childhood - Lucinda Bell
• Australian stakeholder perspectives on healthier retail food environments for toddlers - the era of ‘band aids and small inroads’ - Jennifer McCann
• The impact of visual nudges on beverage choices: Insights from vending machine environments - Enola Kay
• “Healthier options tend to get lost in the noise of online” - Australian shoppers’ experiences with online grocery platforms - Rebecca Bennett
• Perspectives of the dental team on weight stigma, barriers and enablers for dental management of those with obesity: a qualitative study - Zanab Malik
• Formative and impact evaluation of a social marketing campaign to address unhealthy dietary behaviours  - Rebecca Godwin

• From Factory to Brain: How Western Diets Affect Mental Health and Cognition - Felice Jacka
• Using the lens of ultra-processing to improve consumer understanding of dietary health risks - Joanne Dono
• Understanding young adults' dietary habits: Investigating contextual factors that influence discretionary intakes at eating occasions. - Nancy R Tran
• The online shopping environment for foods promoted as lunchboxes foods: an audit of supermarket websites - Clare Hume

• The Big Squeeze: The content and marketing of infant & toddler foods in pouches. - Catharine Fleming
• The Big Sell: Marketing of infant & toddler foods: effects on parents & carers. - Helen Dixon
• The Big Questions: WHO and how can the Australian regulatory framework better protect infants & toddlers? - Andrea Schmidtke
• Parents’ perceptions of marketing claim impacts in relation to toddler food products: a qualitative investigation - Mamaru Awoke
• Marketing on infant and toddler food packaging: misleading and undermining parents - Alexandra Chung

• How much is invested in obesity prevention in Australia? An analysis of major research and Federal government funding from 2013 to 2022 - Huong Ngoc Quynh Tran
• How does mild sleep deprivation in children affect eating behaviour? A randomized cross-over trial. - Rosie Jackson
• Consumer and Policymaker Perspectives on Healthy Eating Policy and Practice - Benyamin Hakak-Zargar
• Misaligned attitudes and perceptions among adolescents living with obesity, caregivers and healthcare professionals: ACTION Teens Australia survey study - Cathy Kwok
• Applying Machine Learning Methodology for Early Prediction of Adolescent and Adult BMI - Rae-Chi Huang
• What do parents think about their child's routine height and weight measures, a qualitative study  - Slavica Krstic

• The way we talk about obesity can make all difference - Tiffany Petre
• How do we connect with the audience?: A journalist's perspective on obesity and weight stigma in the media - Gemma Breen

• People vs profits: The Lancet series on Commercial Determinants of Health and beyond - Rob Moodie
• People vs profits: The Lancet series on Commercial Determinants of Health and beyond - Jennifer Lacy-Nichols
• Changes in recommended strategies and the prevailing obesity narrative expressed within Australian obesity policies over the last 25 years - Tim Gill
• Unmasking corporate political activity: mapping sponsors of industry associations     - Jennifer Lacy-Nichols

• Co-designing resources with midwives and consumers to address weight stigma in antenatal care - Briony Hill
• Integrating an evidenced based obesity prevention program into practice: Evaluation of INFANT practitioner training. - Rachel Laws
• Sociodemographic and weight self-perception correlates of explicit weight bias towards preconception, pregnant and postpartum women - Haimanot Hailu
• Rapid weight gain (RWG) during infancy: current knowledge and practices of Well Child Tamariki Ora practitioners in Aotearoa New Zealand - Louise Fangupo
• Implementing clinical guidelines for antenatal gestational weight gain care: using a novel best-worst scaling method to determine priority barriers - Eva J Farragher
• What stops women from engaging with referrals for gestational weight gain (GWG)? - Jenna Hollis

Introduction to session and mentimeter polls 

Discussion at the end for 20 minutes

• Overweight and obesity among Australian children from priority populations and association with quality of life. - Alison Hayes
• Effectiveness and co-benefits of a telephone-based intervention in reducing obesity risk of children aged 2-4 years and tailoring the intervention for priority populations: The Healthy Beginnings Program - Sarah Taki
• A multidisciplinary community-based healthy lifestyle program for children and young people in Taranaki, Aotearoa New Zealand. - Yvonne Anderson
• Consumer and Community Engagement in research: pitfalls, opportunities, lessons learned and strategies for genuine partnership - Kenneth Taiapa
• Drawing on Aboriginal wisdom and cultural practices to inform program development. - Tania Harris