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Policy Research Unit in Healthy Weight

The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Policy Research Unit in Healthy Weight providesÌýworld-class expertise inÌýworking with children and young people, food policy, economic modelling and research on environment andÌýbehaviour change.ÌýThe unit will build the evidence base to help reduce the prevalence and burden of obesity.

The Healthy Weight Policy Research Unit (HWPRU) aims to deliver the evidence needed to help the government develop and implement policies that support people to maintain and achieve a healthy weight across the life-course, and reduce the prevalence and burden of obesity.

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Co-directed by Russell Viner and Clare Llewellyn and led by ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº, it is a collaboration with Institute for Fiscal Studies, Obesity Voices, City University London, University of Liverpool, University of Birmingham, Leeds Beckett University and University of Oxford.Ìý

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