News & Events

Event for the 35^th anniversary of the founding of ELLET Thessaloniki

The Second World Conference of Classics

3^rd International Olive Conference and Festival

Event titled “Delphi School 2026”

“Delphi School 2026” event

2^nd Olive Oil Forum

4^th Messinia Forum

Delphi School 2026 – From Science to Policy: Healthy Aging

DELPHI SCHOOL 2026 - “From Science to Policy: Healthy Ageing”

8^th Event “In Memory of D. Trichopoulos”

52^nd Annual Panhellenic Medical Conference – 8^th Event in Memory of D. Trichopoulos

4^th Panhellenic Student Conference of Life Sciences – The trilogy of well-being: mind, soul and body

11^th Panhellenic Forum of W4O Hellas

Establishment of World Mediterranean Diet Day

6^th Shanghai Archaeology Forum

7^th International Yale Symposium on Olive and Health: Olive Oil and The Future of Health: Innovations for Personal, Community, and Ecosystem Well-Being

Mediterranean Diet: Science, Sustainability, and Cultural Heritage

The Taste of the Greek Mediterranean: Tradition, Culture, and Health - Mini-Symposium and Tasting Session with Professor Antonia Trichopoulou

2^nd International Conference Of Environmental Medicine Environmental Exposures And Epigenetics: Protecting Children’s Health (via web session)

15^th Anniversary of the Recognition of the Mediterranean Diet as Intangible Cultural Heritage

1^st Panhellenic Scientific miniConference on Food Safety, Quality Assurance and One Health 2025

4^th Annual “Lifestyle Medicine" Conference - "Hippocratic Tradition & Modern Applications"

6^th International Carbohydrate Quality Consortium (ICQC) Meeting

6^th International Conference Tomorrow Tastes Mediterranean

Honorary Distinction for Dr. Antonia Trichopoulou at the Gastronomos Quality Awards

3^rd International Symposium for a New Eleusis – “Re-Enchanting the World”

Antonia Trichopoulou was honored with the “IUNS Living Legends Award”

Multi-thematic event “Olive oil in promoting health and sustainable development”

Second Meeting of the Presidents of the Academies of Sciences of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation Member States

Planeterranea & II YALE Symposium “Gastronomy And Culture”

Awards in memory of D. Trichopoulos

51^st Annual Panhellenic Medical Conference – 7^th Event in memory of D. Trichopoulos

Sustainable Development Festival ASviS 2025

Food Systems, Health, Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change: Challenges, Prospects and Action

DELPHI ECONOMIC FORUM X: Food Systems, Sustainable Agriculture, Health and Climate Action

NUTRITION AND HEALTH: FROM MEDITERRANEAN TO PLANETERRANEAN DIET

Sino-Italian Bilateral Meeting – Mediterranean Diet and Cantonese Cuisine for Human Health

State of the Art Conference – The Allergic Child and Recent Advances

Beyond the Olive Grove: Shaping public and planetary health, policy & sustainability

KISSAMOS OILS

Honoring the 30 years since the official publication of the Mediterranean Diet pyramid

World Olive Oil Day. 30 Years Celebration of the Mediterranean Diet pyramid.

The Global Summit "Mediterranean Diet Feeds the Future"

"Nutrition, lifestyle and neurocognitive ageing: evidence and future perspectives", organized by Venice International University

The World Conference of Classics on "Classical Civilizations and the Modern World"

3^rd Annual Experiential Conference with American International and Greek Scholars «Cretan Lifestyle Mediterranean Tradition & Modern Applications»

Mediterranean Culinary Concepts – A programme by Mediterranean Diet Roundtable

Continuing Education in Internal Medicine: What's new in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases faced by the Internist

Conference "The Influence of Classical Education on Modern Medicine and Oncology"

International conference on olive oil and sustainability

“The Commons in Intellectual Traditions and Future Practice”

SASi-SPi Science Policy Lab in Malmö

Meeting of the Mediterranean Diet Joint Task Force in Rome

Neurodegeneration, Inflamation and Cancer

Public Session: Reception of the foreign member Dr Walter Willett

2^nd International Elia Lesvos Confest “Olive oil & Health”

XIV International Mediterranean Diet Conference

OnFoods - Naples Hosts the International Agora of the Mediterranean Diet

IX Delphi Εconomic Forum: Sustainable Food Systems and Climate Change

Research.com Best Scientists 2023 Award: Dr. Antonia Trichopoulou

2^nd Annual Conference ‘Cretan Lifestyle 2023: Mediterranean Tradition & Modern Applications’

1° International Congress on Life-style Modulation and Healthy Long-life

2^nd Congress of the Network of Higher Education Institutions for the Safeguard of the Mediterranean Diet

2023 European University on Responsible Consumption and Production Conference (EURECA-PRO)

Towards sustainable food consumption: Academies advise European Commission

1^st Gastronomy and Culture Symposium organized as part of the Yale Olive Sciences and Health Institute initiative 2023

The Delphi Economic Forum VIII Annual Meeting

Dean’s Lecture and Environmental Health Sciences Seminar with Antonia Trichopoulou, MD, PhD, Chair of Academy of Athens Center for Public Health Research and Education

Foresight Study for the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control Workshop (ECDC)

Tomorrow Taste Mediterranean 2022

Cretan Way of Life: Mediterranean Tradition & Applications in the Modern Era

Nutrition Conference, University of Thessaly

1^st Congress on the Climate Crisis, University of Αthens, Greece

"The Real Cretan Experience" Grecotel and the Hellenic Center of Excellence for Health & Wellness

Top experts called together at the Vatican for "The Art & Science of Olive Oil: Nutrition, Medicine and Planetary Health"

Dr. Georgia Martimianaki, HHF, presentation at the Retreat of the Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Chan, Boston, U.S.A.

Olive oil – Pomace oil – Seed oils: Their Relationship with Nutrition and to the Economy

HARVARD T.H. CHAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH DIMITRIOS TRICHOPOULOS MEMORIAL FUND 2021-2022

HHF Researchers named in the biannual Webometrics Highly Cited Researchers (h>100) List 2022

"Greece has one sun and two hearts, one heart in Greece and the other in the worldwide Greek community" quotes Antonia Trichopoulou, President of the Hellenic Health Foundation, on Radio 2mm on the radio show "Life Routes"

Mediterranean named best overall diet for fifth consecutive year

The Academy of Athens elects Dr Antonia Trichopoulou as a Full Member

2021 list of Highly Cited Researchers™ names Antonia Trichopoulou, President of the Hellenic Health Foundation among the top 1% of researchers

Ancel and Margaret Keys Award recipient: Antonia Trichopoulou, Hellenic Health Foundation. 2^nd International Agrobiodiversity Congress 2021

"Disentangling the Secret of the Longevity in the Mediterranean Populations", The Italian Pavillion, Dubai WORLD EXPO 2020

Symposium on "Health Benefits of Mediterranean Diet and Chinese Nutritional Habits", III World Virtual Congress of Transdisciplinarity, in partnership with the UNESCO Naples Chair on Health Education and Sustainable Development. Keynote Lecture: "Mediterranean Diet and Health Benefits: Updated Scientific Evidence"

6^th OMFALOS Conference 2021: Climate Change, Mediterranean Diet and Olive Tourism

2^nd International Olive Center Conference | Olive Sector: Pursuing innovation - Exploring trends. Life-time Contribution Award: Antonia Trichopoulou

LiFO PODCASTS - LISTEN TO THE SCIENCE

"Dialogues: What Happens to Our Food?"

HHF and UNESCO Chair on "Health Education and Sustainable Development" Federico II University of Naples work together to promote health

"Mediterranean Diet, Olive Trees and the Environment", The Days of Olives and Olive Oil 2020, The Olive Oil & Olive Friends Club "FILAIOS", International Olive Council World Day of the Olive Tree

"Health indicators and frequency of risk factors in the Greek population" A. Trichopoulou, 13^th Panhellenic Conference on Cardiometabolic Risk Factors.

Awards ceremony for the "KOTINOS 2020"

MRC Epidemiology Unit Seminars

Mediterranean Diet Roundtable "The Science behind the Mediterranean Diet".

An event in the memory of our colleague Christina Bamia

2^nd International Yale Symposium on Olive Oil and Health, European Cultural Centre at Delphi

Event on "Producer's Saturday" on "Honey: Food for Gods and Humans"

2^nd European Lifestyle Medicine Congress

Tomorrow Tastes Mediterranean, International Conference

Mediterranean diet and cardiovascular risk: from 1960 until today

Mediterranean Diet seminar

15^th International Congress of the European Geriatric Medicine Society

More than 2000 Years of Mediterranean Diet: a Journey from Ancient Romans to the UNESCO Recognition in 2010 - The Cultural Dimension of Food

Summer course on The Mediterranean Diet in a Time of Crisis: Food Security and Sustainability on land and sea in Greece

One day course, on June 4^th, at the premises of the Hellenic Health Foundation

45^th Annual Pan-Hellenic Medical Congress - Dimitrios Trichopoulos Memorial Symposium

Conference on "Olive: the golden liquid of Homer". Olive and olive oil are unique assets for Europe.

Nomination of Mr. Fritz Blauel to an Honorary Member of the "Equals of Mani"

Annual Fellowship Celebration at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

European Network, COST ACTION, EUROCAROTEN INFODAY. Raising awareness about the socioeconomic importance of carotenoids.

Delphi Economic Forum IV

Event on "Producer's Saturday": Cheese of the Cyclades

Special honorable event in memory of Professor Dimitrios Trichopoulos

Workshop on "Carotenoids in Foods, Nutrition and Health" organized by EU COST action EUROCAROTEN

13^th World Congress on Processing Tomato

Short course on "Traditional Mediterranean diet: definition and safeguarding"

44^th Annual Pan-Hellenic Medical Congress - Dimitrios Trichopoulos Memorial Symposium

Delphi Economic Forum III on "New globalization and growth challenges"

Joint conference on "Longevity: the way of being"

Event on the "Mediterranean Diet"

Event on "Producer's Saturday"

Symposium on "Sustainable food systems for healthy diets in Europe and central Asia"

Mediterranean Diet & Health, A Nutrition Odyssey in Greece

IMEKOFOODS 3^rd International Congress

The Anthropology of food in Greece: the Mediterranean diet and more

Development of Geriatric Medicine : A perspective for a new approach towards the older patients

Mediterranean Diet Roundtable

43^rd Annual Pan-Hellenic Medical Congress - Dimitrios Trichopoulos Memorial Symposium

Scientific Symposium on the Benefits of Cretan Diet and Lifestyle

Two-day conference on "Policy Dialogue on Public Health Reform in Greece: Public Health in the 21^st century"

International Conference "Food values - The Renaissance of the Mediterranean Diet and its significance for a 21^st century world"

The Cluster meeting "Nutrition and physical activity: How European Union contributes to Public Health priorities including obesity"

Visit of National Cancer Institute collaborators to HHF premises

Eating Habits & Child Obesity

Lecture of Harvard Professor Walter Willett on "Dietary Fat and Health: Lessons from Greece and Beyond"

Master Program "Cibo e Salute" at the University of Gastronomic Sciences in Pollenzo

1^st World Conference on the Mediterranean Diet

54^th Panhellenic Pediatric Congress

EUROCAROTEN Symposium "Carotenoids: from Plant Pigments to Human Health"

42^nd Annual Pan-Hellenic Medical Congress - Dimitrios Trichopoulos Memorial Symposium

Special Symposium in Honor of Dr. Walter Willett's 25 Years as Chair of the Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

European Programme NU-AGE: Nutrition & Third Age

Senologic Hellenic Society - Scientific Symposium in memory of Professor Dimitrios Trichopoulos

11^th Panhellenic Conference on Public Health & Health Services

International Conference: "Olive oil as a common resource of peoples of the mediterranean area"

General Assembly meeting Credits4Health

Harvard honors the legacy of Prof. Dimitrios Trichopoulos

Finding Common Ground Conference Boston

Workshop : Personal Health Student Card, 30 years of the Health Centre of Thermi, experience in Primary Health Care and Prevention.

EPIC Steering Committee Meeting

10^th network meeting in the WHO European Action network on reducing marketing pressure on children and Meeting in the European Salt Action Network

41^st Annual Pan-Hellenic Medical Congress - Dimitrios Trichopoulos Memorial Symposium

6^th Pan-Hellenic Scientific Conference: "Current Trends in the field of Lipids"

41^st Annual Pan-Hellenic Medical Congress

Symposium on Nutrition, Metabolism and Cardiometabolic Prevention: OMICS, epigenetics and system epidemiology

Workshop on World Health Day with the theme "Food Security"

Le Giornate di "Carlo Cannella" 4 Edizione

Students of the Arsakeion-Tositseion School visited the HHF

CHANCES Dissemination Workshop

CHANCES Final Plenary Meeting

5^th Pan-Hellenic Congress of Public Health and Social Medicine Forum

CHANCES 5^th Work Package Leaders' meeting

CHANCES Dissemination Workshop: "Risk factors for healthy aging: Insight from the CHANCES Project"

III WORLD CONGRESS OF PUBLIC HEALTH NUTRITION

Diet and Cancer: from prevention to survival

Workshop on "Feasibility study on dietary recommendations for older adults in the European Union"

Elaia 2014: Events to highlight and promote olive products

International workshop "Assessing Sustainable Diets within the Sustainability of Food Systems. Mediterranean Diet, Organic Food: New Challenges"

First International Conference "TASTE THE MEDITERRANEAN"

Sub-regional Workshop of the World Health Organization (WHO) on the Development of National Action Plan on Salt and Fat Reduction

Participation of a HHF team (Gavrieli, Klinaki Trichopoulou) to the program of the International Center for Hellenic and Mediterranean Studies on "The Anthropology of Food in Greece: the Mediterranean Diet"

Hellenic Presidency of the Council of the European Union

CHANCES 5^th Plenary Meeting

12^th National Congress on Nutrition & Dietetics

The 4^th Pan-Hellenic Congress of Public Health and Social Medicine Forum

Presentation of Dr. V.Benetou on Osteoporotic Fractures

CHANCES 4^th Work Package Leaders' meeting

3^rd Contest of Innovative Food Products "ECOTROPHELIA 2013"

International Scientific Consensus Summit

Students of the University of Missouri, U.S.A., visited the HHF

EPIC Steering Committee meeting

Presentation of Dr. E. Valanou of the HYDIA project in the 5^th Conference of the Greek Forum of Lipid Science and Technology

EuroFIR NEXUS 2^nd Annual Meeting and Conference "Development in food composition information systems supporting ethnic and traditional foods in Europe"

Students of the Arsakeion-Tositseion School visited the UOA, Medical School

CHANCES fourth plenary meeting

3^rd Pan-Hellenic Congress of Public Health and Social Medicine Forum

Traditional Food International 2012 (TFI-2012)

Kick-off meeting of the EFSA tender on "Dietary monitoring tools for risk assessment"

Lecture at Gastronomic Science University in Pollenzo

European Health Examination Survey (EHES) conference

HYDRIA: Training seminar for health professionals

7^th Panellenic Conference in Clinical Oncology, West Greece

2^nd Pan-Hellenic Congress of Public Health and Social Medicine Forum

Federation of the European Nutrition Societies (FENS) 2011, Award Ceremony

Dr. Philippos Orfanos, collaborator of HHF, received the 1^st award for best oral communication

Meeting in Koroni (Greece) of the four communities included in the application of the Mediterranean Diet as Intangible Cultural Heritage UNESCO

The vice-president of HHF Dr Antonia Trchopoulou received an award from SEVITEL

EHES (European Health Examination Survey), 1^st Site Visit

MEDITERRANEAN DIET

CHANCES second plenary meeting

Basefood Midterm Review Meting

Lecture on Mediterranean Diet

5^th Serbian Congress of Pharmacy

13th European Health Forum Gastein (EHFG) - "Creating a better future for health in Europe"

II World Congress of Public Health Nutrition and I Latinamerican Congress of Community Nutrition

EHES (European Health Examination Survey), 2^nd Training seminar on measurements of the health examination surveys

The FOODUNIQUE Network - Greek / Scandinavian / Celtic Partner Coordination Meeting

CHANCES 1^st Work Package Leaders meeting

Side-event "Reducing the environmental impact of the food system: Lessons from traditional food cultures" in the context of the Fifth Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health "Protecting children's health in a changing environment"

19^th International Congress of Nutrition - Nutritional Aspects of Traditional Foods and their Health Implications

Symposium: The Use of Olives and Olive Oil in the Traditional Greek Diet