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McGill Centre for the Convergence of Health and Economics (MCCHE)

  • 2014 Convergent Innovation (CI) for Food Security Workshop held in Montreal, Quebec

  • Laurette Dubé (Founding Chair and Scientific Director; MCCHE) visits Bhubaneswar, Odisha where the VeggieKart/VeggieLite Convergent Innovation initiative is occurring.

  • 2014 Food Innovation Workshop to Scale Up the Health and Economic Impact of Agriculture-Nutrition Linkages held in Mumbai, India.

  • Healthy Eating, Healthy Living - through qualitative and quantitative analysis we attempt to understand the true drivers of choice leading to unhealthy decisions.

  • Dietary Diversity and Balance - the MCCHE leads partnerships with the industry, government and non-profit sectors to improve nutrition and overall health.

  • Brain-to-Society (BtS) 2010 Roadmap Workshop

  • 2012 Roadmap Development Workshop in Bellagio, Italy

  • 2013 Pan-American Conference on Obesity (PACO) III in Aruba

  • Panel at 2012 Roadmap Development Workshop in New Delhi (Paths of Convergence for Agriculture, Health and Wealth)

  • Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus discusses vision of social business

 

Formerly known as the McGill World Platform for Health and Economic Convergence (MWP), the MCCHE is a world-leader in promoting integrative and interdisciplinary solutions to diet-and lifestyle-related global health challenges. This approach seeks to control and prevent health problems, such as obesity and under-nutrition, in ways that stimulate economic growth, by enabling innovation and transformation in diet and lifestyle, as well as in agriculture, food and health value chains, markets and systems.

No single scientific or social discipline can unravel the causes of these pervasive societal challenges-and no single scientific or social discipline alone will solve them. We need to break free of siloed efforts and undertake a collaborative, integrated, trans-disciplinary approach-one that bridges the current divisions between actors in the marketplace, in civil society, and in government.

Mission

To foster innovative, integrative solutions to the world’s most pressing problems such as malnutrition and obesity by collaborating with leading academics and top industry experts in the fields of management, medicine, agriculture, business, law, economics, etc.

To promote excellence in academic research by developing a knowledge base and facilitating its translation into concrete activities, strategies, and policies, with the objective of generating health-promoting social and business changes.

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