Episode 325: Luc Hagenaars, Ph.D., M.Sc

Thank you for joining us for another episode of the Low Carb MD
Podcast. Luc Hagenaars, Ph.D., M.Sc., is a policy advisor and
researcher with a fascination for addressing the social and
commercial determinants of health. His scientific expertise
concerns the analysis of health policy innovations with case
studies, system mapping and applied policy process theory. He has
extensive experience in developing health policy through his
previous work at the Dutch Ministry of Health. He is Assistant
Professor Health Policy Analysis at Amsterdam UMC and a visiting
scholar at the University of California, San Francisco. Hagenaars
received his Ph.D. from the Radboud University Medical Center,
Nijmegen, and his M.Sc. in global health from Maastricht
University.


In this conversation, Tro and Luc talk about how Luc’s interest
in the social determinants of health came to be, a recent study
looking at why the field of obesity prevention is stuck and how
it could be unstuck, the issue of weight stigma and how it
relates to the ‘health at every size’ movement, finding effective
solutions to the obesity problem, how to influence government
policy to embrace effective solutions, how companies try to
influence your food buying decisions at the grocery store, how
big food companies push back against positive health movements,
and Dr. Luc’s current research projects.


For more information, please see the links below. Thank you for
listening!


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