Lauren Bandy
Researcher
Dr Lauren Bandy is a post-doc researcher in the Food Purchasing group of the Health Behaviours team. Broadly, she is interested in how the food environment shapes our diet and our health. Her research explores how food sales data and nutrition composition data can be used in combination to monitor how food companies are responding to nutrition policies in the UK, including the voluntary sugar and salt reduction targets and the Soft Drink Industry Levy.
After completing her DPhil at Oxford Population Health, she was awarded a two-year Early Career Research Fellowship. She has a Master’s Degree in Food Policy from City University and an undergraduate degree in Nutrition from King’s College, London.
Lauren is an active member of the Early and Mid-Career Research (EMCR) group, and is the Departmental representative for the Medical Sciences Division’s Research Staff Forum. Please get in touch with her if you’d like to discuss anything relating to the early career research community or if you are new to the Department and would like to know more about EMCR activities.
Recent publications
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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.
Journal article
Bandy L. et al, (2023), Global Health, 19
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The impact of altering restaurant and menu option position on food selected from an experimental food delivery platform: a randomised controlled trial
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Bianchi F. et al, (2023), International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 20
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The impact of price promotions on confectionery and snacks on the energy content of shopping baskets: A randomised controlled trial in an experimental online supermarket
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Luick M. et al, (2023), Appetite, 186
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Reply to Muzzioli et al.: Communicating nutrition and environmental information to food system stakeholders
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Macdiarmid JI. et al, (2023), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 120
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Changes in the salt content of packaged foods sold in supermarkets between 2015-2020 in the United Kingdom: A repeated cross-sectional study
Journal article
Bandy LK. et al, (2022), PLoS medicine, 19