Peter Scarborough

Pete leads the Sustainable Healthy Food Group in NDPHCS at the University of Oxford and is a fellow of the Oxford Martin School. His research focusses on evaluating population approaches to increase the uptake of healthy, sustainable diets. Such approaches include both changes in Government policy and changes to settings where we make choices about the food that we buy and eat. He has studied food price, food labelling, marketing of foods and food accessibility. 

Pete is the Principal Investigator of the SHIFT, SALIENT and THRIVING projects funded by Wellcome Trust, ESRC and UKRI respectively. THRIVING is a consortium of researchers from six universities around the UK to provide a policy hub for research focussing on optimising the health co-benefits of Net Zero. Pete was a part of the team that developed the UK's Nutrient Profiling Model in 2004, and within the THRIVING project he will lead work on the development of a similar model that considers both the healthiness and sustainability of foods simultaneously.

Pete's previous work has focussed on integrating models of health, environmental sustainability and economics e.g. he led the modelling work package for the Wellcome Trust-funded Livestock, Environment and People (LEAP) project. He has also worked on evaluations of major public health policy, including the UK soft drinks industry levy.

Pete has given evidence to the Health Select Committees of the UK Government and Scottish Government. He has sat on expert advisory groups for the World Health Organization, Food Standards Scotland and Public Health England. He is part of a WHO Collaborating Centre for the promotion of Healthy and Sustainable Diets.

Pete has worked at the University of Oxford in various capacities since 2003. He received a DPhil in public health in 2009 for a thesis investigating geographic variations in coronary heart disease rates in England.