DEDIPAC JPI - Joint Orange

The consortium JOINT-ORANGE is a nation-wide consortium of seven academic groups and three universities of applied science. Organisations in this consortium are: the EMGO+ institute (coordinator of the consortium), National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Academic Medical Centre – University of Amsterdam (AMC), Wageningen University and Research Centre (WUR), Utrecht University (UU), Maastricht University, TNO Leiden, Hanze University of Applied Science Groningen, Windesheim University of Applied Science Zwolle and HAS University of Applied Science Den Bosch. The joint expertise, skills and actions of this consortium cover the entire research area of DEDIPAC with respect to nutrition and dietary behaviour, consumer research, physical activity and sedentary behaviour and the individual, social, economic, cultural and biological determinants of those lifestyle behaviours. The various disciplines present in this consortium (e.g. food, nutritional, exercise, social, and health sciences) ensure a holistic approach in the research and development of joint actions for public health solutions across the lifespan. The consortium's broad expertise and skills are reflected in the proposed scientific work, which is intertwined in all Thematic Area's of the wider DEDIPAC pilot proposal, which was currently accepted by the JPI steering committee. A brief summary of Joint Orange activities within the DEDIPAC pilot is described below: Thematic Area 1: Wageningen University will contribute to WP1.1, by assessing demographic differences in food intake, and as far as possible meal pattern, across countries. Key foods/indicators of intake of public health priority (micro)nutrients will also be assessed. Furthermore they will contribute to the development of an integrated method and test the method using appropriate research infrastructures. Wageningen University will also contribute to the literature search in WP 3.3 and the multi-component interventions and the development of a template for describing these interventions, for the same WP. Maastricht University will contribute to the development of an innovative integrated method to assess dietary intake and dietary behaviour, in conjunction and integrated with measurement of physical activity (WP1.1). TNO and EMGO+ have coordinating tasks in TA1 and will collaboratively supervise a post-doc who will work on Task 1.2.1. Thematic Area 2: The Self-regulation Lab at Utrecht University will contribute to Task 2.1.1 by mapping and defining determinants of eating behaviours and identification of research challenges deriving from the perspective of social, consumer and health psychology and using a dual process perspective. The Utrecht University will also contribute to the evolving framework of determinants by identifying environmental correlates that make the healthy food choice the impulsive food choice. Windesheim University of Applied Sciences in Zwolle will contribute with their expertise/ advice and data in the field of determinants of dietary, sedentary and physical activity behaviour in children/adolescents (WP 2.3.3, 2.4.3) In WP 2.3, EMGO+ will be exploring the relative hierarchy of socio demographic and environmental correlates of sedentary behaviour using advanced statistical methods. The AMC will lead WP 2.4 and will focus on the advancement of understanding of social inequalities in determinants of diet, physical activity and sedentary behaviour, with specific focus on the growing ethnic diversity in Europe. Thematic Area 3: The RIVM, in close collaboration with Hanze Hogeschool and TNO, will contribute to the toolbox for developing, monitoring and evaluating multi component interventions and policies in the field of diet and physical activity. HAS University of Applied Science will contribute to Task 3.2.2 by using a business panel for the evaluation of feasibility of taxing and possibly also other interventions. Task 3.2.1 will be carried out by WUR - LEI, and aims to add to the integration of insights from research on interventions and policies in a systematic way. EMGO+ is also involved in TA3 and will study the physical and economic environment of dietary behaviour in ‘point of purchase settings’ in close alignment with LEI and HAS (WP3.2). The joint aim of Hanze, RIVM and TNO in this TA is to contribute to the conceptual toolbox for developing, monitoring and evaluating multi component interventions and policies in the field of diet and physical activity. A more extensive description of the above activities can be found in the accepted full proposal (Bijlage 1). Our consortium is well equipped to contribute to the networking, capacity building and research goals of the DEDIPAC KH as summarised above. The consortium considers the DEDIPAC KH as an excellent opportunity to further invest and lead international research collaborations by building on our previous successful European work.