The pandemic of obesity and related diseases is among the most pressing problems in public health. Interventions to improve diet quality at an individual level are often ineffective in the long run, since they disregard the contextual drivers, such as our food environment, that shape dietary behaviors. Therefore, the aim of this PhD project is to assess the combined effectiveness of various policy interventions targeting the food environment on diet quality to prevent obesity and related disease risks. This assessment will be done by building, calibrating, validating, and applying a spatial agent-based model.

• dr. Simon Scheider
• prof. dr. Derek Karssenberg
• dr. Judith Verstegen
• Chiara Richardt MSc

• Joreintje Mackenbach (Amsterdam UMC)
• Joline Beulens (Amsterdam UMC)