CfP: Workshop on Food Systems Policies and Health Inequalities: Lessons from the UK and India

IP
Ivica Petrikova
Thu, Jul 10, 2025 10:26 AM

We invite proposals for presentations at a workshop on Food Systems
Policies and Health Inequalities: Lessons from the UK and India
, organised
as part of a networking project funded by the UK Academy of Medical
Sciences. The workshop is co-organised by Royal Holloway, University of
London and Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India and will take
place on September 11, 2025, in Senate House, London. The workshop aims
to bring together researchers, policymakers, and civil-society actors to
examine how food-system policies in both countries contribute to or help
mitigate dietary and health inequalities, with a focus on sharing
cross-country insights.

We welcome contributions that explore the design, implementation, or impact
of relevant policies and programmes—such as food subsidies, school meal
schemes, public health nutrition campaigns, sugar taxes, or food bank or
community pantry models—as well as analyses of how these intersect with
socio-economic status, ethnicity, geography, or caste. We are very
interested in work that draws on empirical research or practitioner
experience and that can highlight opportunities for mutual learning between
the UK and India. Abstracts of up to 300 words should be submitted by
email to Ivica Petrikova (ivica.petrikova@rhul.ac.uk) by August 15, 2025.
Reasonable travel costs can be covered by the networking grant.

We invite proposals for presentations at a workshop on *Food Systems Policies and Health Inequalities: Lessons from the UK and India*, organised as part of a networking project funded by the UK Academy of Medical Sciences. The workshop is co-organised by Royal Holloway, University of London and Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India and will take place on *September 11, 2025*, in Senate House, London. The workshop aims to bring together researchers, policymakers, and civil-society actors to examine how food-system policies in both countries contribute to or help mitigate dietary and health inequalities, with a focus on sharing cross-country insights. We welcome contributions that explore the design, implementation, or impact of relevant policies and programmes—such as food subsidies, school meal schemes, public health nutrition campaigns, sugar taxes, or food bank or community pantry models—as well as analyses of how these intersect with socio-economic status, ethnicity, geography, or caste. We are very interested in work that draws on empirical research or practitioner experience and that can highlight opportunities for mutual learning between the UK and India. *Abstracts of up to 300 words* should be submitted by email to Ivica Petrikova (ivica.petrikova@rhul.ac.uk) by *August 15, 2025*. Reasonable travel costs can be covered by the networking grant.