About Food and Health Center
The Food and Health Center is a university-wide centre at Örebro University. As such, the centre’s activities are built on three pillars – research, education, and collaboration – where the purpose is to promote excellent research that clearly addresses societal challenges and where there are established collaborations with industry, the public sector, or civil society.
Why a university-wide centre?
Never before has the sustainability and health perspective of what we eat been so prominent in both the popular media and scientific journals. Since 2018, Örebro University has pursued a strategic and interdisciplinary initiative on food and health, which has been highly successful and has made an impact both nationally and internationally. Therefore, on 1 June 2025, the university established a university-wide centre for food and health – the Food and Health Center.
Our vision
Sustainably produced food with health benefits to be the first choice. That is the Food and Health Center’s vision, meaning food which tastes good, is healthy, has been produced sustainably and that consumers can afford and wants to buy.
Our mission
To make a significant contribution to improved health and well-being through pioneering interdisciplinary (and cross-sectoral) research in food, nutrition and lifestyle, and to communicate this effectively to society.
