Healthy sustainable diets in the UK with Joanna Trewern

In this talk, Joanna will provide a review of the evidence on healthy sustainable diets in the UK context, offer insights into which approaches and interventions can work to enable consumer behaviour change, and share why the nutrition community is key in enabling a wide-scale shift to healthy sustainable diets

Joanna has a background in sustainability, and has worked on the topic of healthy sustainable diets for over 8 years in collaboration with private and public sector partners. She is currently Director of Partnerships and Institutional Engagement at ProVeg International, where she leverages her significant research, policy and corporate engagement experience to ensure that ProVeg’s activities drive real-world impact. Joanna has a PhD in Sustainability which investigated the role of retailers in enabling more sustainable consumer diets, and she was previously Head of Consumption at WWF-UK where she led the organisation’s work on healthy sustainable diets.

Learning objectives

By the end of this talk you should have:

– Gained an understanding of the evidence on healthy sustainable diets

– Gained an awareness of new interventions and approaches for behaviour change

– Have improved confidence when speaking about sustainable food choices