Hannah Forde
PhD
Researcher
Hannah’s research focusses on ways to make the food system healthier, fairer, and more environmentally sustainable. Hannah is currently a Researcher in the CO-designing for healthy People and Planet: food system Economic Research (COPPER) project, where she will work with the public and policymakers to design food subsidy and tax scenarios.
Hannah completed her PhD at the MRC Epidemiology Unit at the University of Cambridge, co-funded by Public Health England and the University of Cambridge ESRC Doctoral training Partnership. Her thesis, entitled ‘Changes to marketing in response to sugary drinks taxation: the Soft Drinks Industry Levy in the United Kingdom’, used a variety of qualitative and quantitative methods. During her PhD, Hannah also completed an internship at the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
Prior to her current role, Hannah was a Research Associate at the MRC Epidemiology Unit in The Mandala Consortium, which is funded by the UK Research and Innovation Strategic Priorities Fund. The Mandala Consortium aims to transform the urban food system, and Hannah conducted research to understand and map the food system. Hannah also completed qualitative research at the MRC Epidemiology Unit to understand the potential impact of the UK Government’s new restrictions on television advertising and online marketing for unhealthy foods, funded by the National Institute for Health Research Public Health Research Programme.
Hannah holds an undergraduate degree in Economics and Statistics from the University of St Andrews and a Master’s degree in Nutrition, Physical Activity and Public Health from the University of Bristol.
Recent publications
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Industry views of the UK Soft Drinks Industry Levy: a thematic analysis of elite interviews with food and drink industry professionals, 2018-20
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Peddar Jones C. et al, (2023), BMJ Open
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The conceptualisation and operationalisation of ‘marketing’ in public health research: a review of reviews focused on food marketing using principles from critical interpretive synthesis
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Forde H. et al, (2023), BMC Public Health
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Reactions of industry and associated organisations to the announcement of the UK Soft Drinks Industry Levy: longitudinal thematic analysis of UK media articles, 2016-18
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Penney TL. et al, (2023), BMC Public Health
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Associations between trajectories of obesity prevalence in English primary school children and the UK soft drinks industry levy: An interrupted time series analysis of surveillance data
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Rogers NT. et al, (2023), PLOS Medicine, 20, e1004160 - e1004160
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Understanding Marketing Responses to a Tax on Sugary Drinks: A Qualitative Interview Study in the United Kingdom, 2019
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Forde H. et al, (2022), International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 11, 2618 - 2629