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
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Peter Scarborough
Professor of Population Health
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Rachel Pechey
Associate Professor
Our Team
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Mike Rayner
Professor of Population Health, Nuffield Department of Population Health
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Richard Harrington
Senior Research Data Scientist
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Anna Pun
DPhil Probationer Research Student
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Jessica Renzella
Lecturer in Population Health
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Josephine Gondwe
Research Assistant
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Cinja Jostock
Research Assistant (Food Purchasing)
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Ethan Knight
Research Assistant
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Alice O'Hagan
Research Assistant
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Trisha Gordon
Administrator SALIENT Project
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Margarida Bica
DPhil Student
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Elif Çoker
DPhil Candidate
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Shaniek Parks
DPhil Student
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Asha Kaur
Senior Researcher
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Lucy Yates
Public Engagement Lead
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Ben Amies-Cull
Honorary Clinical Lecturer and Health modeller
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Lauren Bandy
Researcher
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Hannah Forde
Senior Researcher
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Emma Garnett
Post doctoral Researcher
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Ru Jia
Researcher
Latest Publications
Vegans, vegetarians, fish-eaters and meat-eaters in the UK show discrepant environmental impacts
Scarborough P., Clark M., Cobiac L., Papier K., Knuppel A., Lynch J., Harrington R., Key T., Springmann M.
The impact of the UK soft drink industry levy on the soft drink marketplace, 2017–2020: An interrupted time series analysis with comparator series
Luick M., Bandy L K., Harrington R., Vijayan J., Adams J., Cummins S., Rayner M., Rogers N., Rutter H., Smith R., White M., Scarborough P.
A systematic review, and meta-analysis, examining the prevalence of price promotions on foods and whether they are more likely to be found on less-healthy foods
Kaur A., Lewis T., Lipkova V., Fernando S., Rayner M., Harrington R A., Waterlander W., Scarborough P.
Estimating the environmental impacts of 57,000 food products
Clark M., Springmann M., Rayner M., Harrington R A.
The development of a method for the global health community to assess the proportion of food and beverage companies’ sales that are derived from unhealthy foods
Bandy L., Jewell J., Luick M., Rayner M., Li Y., Shats K., Jebb S., Chang S., Dunford E.
Contact us
Gibson Building, Ground Floor, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Woodstock Road, Oxford. OX2
Tel: +44(0)1865 617855
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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.