Our public health and healthcare systems have focused heavily on obesity as a disease to be prevented. However, much of this is confounded by weight stigma and anti-fat bias within our own work. A paradigm shift from obesity prevention to understanding weight stigma as a social and structural determinant, public health practitioners and researchers can avoid causing harm, and push for better outcomes for their communities.

After completing the training, you will be able to…
– Define weight stigma as a multilevel system of material oppression
– Identify/recognize how weight stigma contributes to poor health outcomes and confounds epidemiologic research
– Understand how common practices in public health promote, uphold, and create weight stigma