Workshop Financial incentives Financial incentives to promote fruit and vegetable consumption: what are the prospects for a local approach?

Food has a significant impact on our health. What we eat is influenced by social, economic, and environmental factors, and those factors can create inequalities. To act effectively, we need strategies that are based on solid data and that fit our local context.

This workshop builds up a previous scientific workshop conducted on December 2024 by the BFH and Unisanté on financial incentives to improve food choices. Its objectives are to:

• Bring together people from different fields so they can think together, discuss, and co-create concrete actions – especially for groups that face food-related inequalities.
• Assess the acceptability of such initiatives from the perspective of stakeholders; and
• Identify the levers and obstacles to their implementation (methodological, financial, or organizational).

This exchange would lay the foundations for a locally rooted, collective approach that can lead to real actions for better nutrition and health for everyone.

Program

13.00 Registration
 

13.15 Welcome
 

13.25 Financial incentives and food choices: a recap of the scientific workshop "Financial incentives to improve food choices in Switzerland" held on December 11, 2024

Dr. Ana Cecilia Quiroga Gutierrez, Postdoc at the Institute of Health Economi

13.35 Consumption patterns in Switzerland, recent insights

Tanja Häusermann, Bachelor of Science in Nutrition and Dietetics

13.45 Use of financial incentives to promote healthy diets, experience and lessons learned from the USA

Prof. MD Jason Block, Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School

14.45 Coffee Break
 

15.05 Work in small groups for reflection and co-creation, followed by a sharing session
 

17.05 Concluding remarks
 

17.15 Apéro