Centre For Eating And Dieting Disorders

The Centre for Eating and Dieting Disorders (CEDD) is funded by the Mental Health and Drug & Alcohol Office, NSW Ministry for Health. It is an academic and service support centre based in Sydney, Australia resulting from a collaboration between The Boden Institute of Obesity, Nutrition, Exercise & Eating Disorders in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Sydney and Sydney Local Health Network. The Centre has a number of key functions:- To promote awareness of eating disorders as serious mental illnesses, that require treatment and in many cases can be cured To contribute to policy development for the treatment, prevention and cure of eating disorders To improve access to eating disorder services in NSW and provide support to clinicians To conduct and foster research into the eating disorders, their aetiology, treatment and cure To educate and train the health workforce in evidence based medicines and treatments for people with eating disorders To support other organisations working for the betterment of those afflicted by these mental illnesses To contribute to the development of prevention and early intervention policy and interventions to reduce the incidence, duration and burden of eating disorders To collaborate and cross-fertilises ideas with experts in the fields of obesity, body image and other related disciplines to promote broad spectrum Public Health