Sustainable Healthy Food Group
The Sustainable Healthy Food Group conducts research on policies, interventions and scenarios to shift the population towards healthy, sustainable food environments.
We work with local, national and international policymakers, as well as community organisations, and food industry partners that are willing to deliver interventions in real-life settings.
Our approach includes:
- Co-designing and evaluating interventions, and understanding their underlying mechanisms, via proof-of-concept online studies and field studies.
- Designing and modelling the impact of potential policies or interventions in the food system on health, health inequalities and environmental sustainability.
- Engaging policymakers and the public with our research.
We are currently funded by the Wellcome Trust, NIHR and UKRI amongst others. We do not receive funding from the food industry.
Group leads
-
Peter Scarborough
Professor of Population Health
-
Rachel Pechey
Associate Professor
-
Mike Rayner
Professor of Population Health, Nuffield Department of Population Health
Our Team
-
Richard Harrington
Senior Research Data Scientist
-
Asha Kaur
Senior Researcher
-
Lucy Yates
Public Engagement Lead
-
Ben Amies-Cull
Health modeller
-
Lauren Bandy
Researcher
-
Hannah Forde
Researcher
-
Emma Garnett
Post doctoral Researcher
-
Ru Jia
Researcher
-
Anna Pun
DPhil Probationer Research Student
-
Jessica Renzella
Lecturer in Population Health
-
Josephine Gondwe
Research Assistant
-
Cinja Jostock
Research Assistant (Food Purchasing)
-
Ethan Knight
Research Assistant
-
Alice O'Hagan
Research Assistant
-
Trisha Gordon
Administrator SALIENT Project
-
Margarida Bica
DPhil Student
-
Elif Çoker
DPhil Candidate
-
Shaniek Parks
DPhil Student
Latest publications
-
Community-based Person-centred Integrated Care (PIC) Networks for healthy ageing in place: scoping review protocol
Journal article
POTTER C., (2024), BMJ Open
-
Air Quality and Mental Illness: The Role of Bioaerosols, Causal Mechanisms, and Research Priorities
Journal article
BHUI K., (2024), BJPsych Open
Contact us
Gibson Building, 1st Floor, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Woodstock Road, Oxford. OX2
Tel: +44(0)1865 617855
join us
Postgraduate opportunities
We welcome applications from students who wish to study for a DPhil (PhD) in a research area allied to our interests. If you are interested in studying with us, we would like to hear from you. For more information, please visit DPhil in Population Health.