Margie van Dijk

Margie van Dijk works in Public Health England’s Obesity and Healthy Weight team and has responsibility for the operational management of the whole systems obesity programme. She also works across PHE and with national and local partners to deliver approaches to promote and enable healthy weight at a population level. Margie has worked in PHE’s Diet and Obesity team for 4 years. She retrained in nutrition, graduating from Kings College London, follow an earlier career in digital media.

Health Matters: Whole systems approach to obesity

Jamie Blackshaw and Margie van Dijk, 25 July 2019 - Health Matters, Local authority public health

The latest edition of Health Matters, PHE's professional resource, focuses on a taking a whole systems approach to addressing obesity using PHE's newly published guide. This blog provides a summary of the full edition's content.

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