Each chapter connects health professionals and members of the public for networking, learning, building partnerships, engaging in advocacy, and improving strategies to address, prevent, and treat obesity.

Current chapters are located in Calgary, Gatineau-Ottawa, Halifax, Hamilton, Sudbury, Toronto, Vancouver, Edmonton, Moncton, Montreal, Winnipeg and Windsor.

It is composed of over 1,200 students in undergraduate, Master's, Doctoral and Postdoctoral programs, as well as new professionals in academia, industry, healthcare and government agencies in Canada.

The goal of the collaborative is to raise awareness of the existence of weight bias and stigma in Canada, along with promoting behaviour, practice and policy change among stakeholders.

[8] Those intended for health care providers include: Obesity Canada also created tools for use by members of the public.

Over 300 original presentations by Canadian researchers were made, along with several 'mini-review' sessions by experts on a variety of topics, including maternal and fetal origins; healthy policy and economics; prevention and treatment across the lifespan; pain and musculoskeletal conditions; bariatric interventions; and cancer and inflammation.

Delegates included physicians, clinical teams, researchers, industry leaders, and policy makers from federal, provincial, and territorial governments.

Ultimately, the goal of these two-day summits is for participants is to be better able to evaluate the impact of these efforts locally, provincially and nationally.

The results of each workshop are used in future collaborative actions (e.g. research grants, knowledge translation initiatives to the public, health professionals, and policy makers) to reduce weight bias and obesity stigma in Canada.