Promoting Health through Food Policy in Diverse Societies (360G-Wellcome-203779_Z_16_Z)

I would like to apply for one of the Wellcome Trust Humanities and Social Science Small Grants in order to organize a two-day workshop on "Promoting Health through Food Policy in Diverse Societies" at Cardiff University. The aim of the workshop will be to explore the ethics of healthy eating policies and weight-loss interventions in light of diverse views of health, diverse views of the role of health in well-being, and diverse views about how eating practices contribute to well-being. The guiding question of the workshop will concern how health-related food policies can be designed in a way that is respectful of that diversity. The key goals of the workshop will be to provide the foundations for a future large collaborative grant application (e.g. Wellcome Trust Collaborative Awards in Humanities and Social Science); to publish a special issue in a prestigious journal (e.g. the Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics), which I will be editing; and to have an impact on society by providing policymakers and practitioners with a policy brief after the event.