Ximena Ramos Salas (she/her/hers)

Research Consultant
Replica Communications
Replica Communications

Ximena Ramos Salas has a PhD in Public Health with a specialization in Health Promotion & Socio-Behavioural Sciences from the University of Alberta, Canada. She is an independent research consultant working for several international organizations such as the European Association for the Study of Obesity and the World Health Organization. She is a co-author of the 2020 Canadian clinical practice guidelines for the management of obesity in adults, which used a patient-centred approach and included for the first time evidence-based recommendations to reduce weight bias and obesity stigma. She participated in the joint international consensus statement on ending stigma of obesity and developed the World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe weight bias and obesity stigma report. Ximena is co-chair of the World Obesity Federation’s Working Group on Weight Bias and Stigma.

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Presentation(s):

• INSIGHTS INTO OBESITY INTERVENTIONS ACROSS THE LIFESPAN: EXPLORING APPROACHES AND ADDRESSING WEIGHT STIGMA'S IMPACT ON HEALTH AND HEALTHCARE - APERÇU DES INTERVENTIONS SUR L'OBÉSITÉ TOUT AU LONG DE LA VIE : EXPLORATION DES APPROCHES ET GESTION DE L'IMPACT DE LA STIGMATISATION SUR LA SANTLÉ ET LES SOINS DE SANTÉ (VASC-110)

  Friday, October 27, 2023
  14:00 – 15:00 EST

• WEIGHT BIAS AND STIGMA (VASC-110)

  Friday, October 27, 2023
  14:00 – 14:15 EST

• MENTAL HEALTH & CHRONIC DISEASES (VASC-117)

  Friday, October 27, 2023
  15:15 – 16:15 EST