Cornwall’s leading health experts are playing a prominent role at our second Cornwall Good Food Summit next week.
The event at Nancarrow Farm near Truro on Monday 2 December begins with a focus on Food for Health.
Two of Cornwall’s foremost health professionals will be using their experience and expertise to tackle some urgent questions:
How do we champion good food as the key to good health?
How can we make good food accessible to all?
How do we put food and nutrition at the heart of healthcare?
Rachel Wigglesworth is the Director of Public Health for Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. She’s been a pivotal figure in the region’s health sector since 2015, including during the COVID-19 pandemic. Her career has been dedicated to improving public health and reducing health inequalities, and she has significant experience in both academic research and the voluntary sector.
Rachel advocates for sustainable food practices and policies that support local food production and reduce food insecurity. She believes passionately in a Good Food system that ensures everyone has access to healthy nutritious food.
Kath Brown has been a GP for 20 years and practises at the Narrowcliff Surgery in Newquay. She’s interested in sustainability and lifestyle medicine and is Cornwall chair of the Greener Practice network. Kath is passionate about helping patients improve their healthspan.
Her development work with prediabetic and diabetic patients, supporting them to address their barriers to health, led to the creation of the first ‘veg box on prescription’ pilot in Cornwall, in partnership with Newquay Orchard. It marked the start of the new WellFed Cornwall network, which she helps to steer and develop.
The Summit brings together more than 100 organisations and individuals working in partnership to create a better food system in Cornwall.