WHO Collaborating Centre for Physical Activity, Nutrition and Obesity
The World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Physical Activity, Nutrition and Obesity (CCPANO) aims to reduce non-communicable diseases (NCDs) through prevention.
About us
The World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Physical Activity, Nutrition and Obesity was established under the auspices of WHO's head office in Geneva to influence policy and public health work on chronic disease prevention globally.
In particular, the centre focuses on physical activity promotion, public health nutrition, obesity prevention and diabetes prevention, and will work in developed and developing countries, as chronic disease is prevalent in most countries across the globe.
The centre is a collaboration between the University of Sydney’s Prevention Research Collaboration and Boden Collaboration with the Charles Perkins Centre.
Terms of Reference
- To support WHO in the implementation and monitoring of the Global Action Plan on Physical Activity 2018-2030 and strengthening country capacity for implementation.
- To support WHO with non-communicable disease prevention and management, specifically diabetes and the new Global Diabetes Compact
- To provide ad hoc technical advice to WHO on physical activity and diabetes and related areas of nutrition and obesity, specifically in monitoring and surveillance systems, interventions and policy implementation and evaluation, and translation and scale-up of NCD prevention programs.
Workplan major themes
- Technical support on effective interventions to promote physical activity among older adults
- Technical support to strengthen implementation of national communication campaigns on physical activity, including those specifically focused on older adult
- Development of a framework for understanding regulatory approaches to promoting physical activity
- Inform WHO’s effort to develop a prioritized research agenda for the Global Diabetes Compact
- Technical support to inform the adaptation of WHO guidance on insulin treatment
- Develop and evaluate systems approaches to physical activity promotion
- Build evidence on the relationship between sport, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Global Action Plan on Physical Activity
Reports
- Systematic review of the association between inherited genetic variants and response to blood glucose lowering therapies 2017
- Fair Play: Building a strong physical activity system for more active people (13 October 2021
Media
- Media release: WHO calls for better and fairer opportunities for physical activity to improve health (October 14, 2021)
- Media release: WHO Collaborating Centres respond to Trump (April 16, 2020)
- ABC Radio National interview: Professor Adrian Bauman on RN Breakfast with Fran Kelly
- WHO physical activity and sedentary behaviour guidelines co-led by the University of Sydney
- Croakey article about WHO physical activity and sedentary behaviour guidelines
Our people
- Professor Adrian Bauman, Sesquicentenary Professor of Public Health (Co-Director)
- Professor Stephen Colagiuri, Professor of Metabolic Health (Co-Director)
- Associate Professor Philayrath Phongsavan
- Associate Professor Anne Tiedemann
- Associate Professor Samantha Hocking
- Tracy Nau
- Professor Bill Bellew
- Professor Anthony Okley, University of Wollongong
- Associate Professor Karen Milton, University of East Anglia
- Professor Cathie Sherrington
- Professor Emmanuel Stamatakis
- Professor Ben Smith
- Dr Lindsey Reece
- Professor Louise Baur
- Associate Professor Hidde van der Ploeg, University of Amsterdam
Administration Officer
Cathie Kiernan
Phone: +61 2 8627 1849
Email: catherine.kiernan@sydney.edu.au