I am a Research Fellow in the Department of Public Health, Environments and Society. I am a public health researcher using quantitative methods to understand key drivers of population-level diets and how policies can be employed to improve dietary health in the UK. I hold a PhD in public health from LSHTM, which examined the relationship between the neighbourhood food environment and food and drink purchasing in England, and how this relationship changed during the COVID-19 pandemic. Before the PhD, I completed an undergraduate and master's degree in Health Sciences, which equipped me with skills across multiple disciplines, including epidemiology, health economics, medicine, statistics, ethics, public health, occupational health and health promotion. I am currently involved in an NIHR SPHR-funded evaluation of the calorie labelling regulations implemented in England in April 2022.
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Teaching
I am a seminar leader for the term 1 MSc module 'Bastic Statistics for Public Health and Policy'. I also supervise MSc summer projects.
Research
I am broadly interested in the structural determinants of population-level health and health inequalities and how policy interventions can improve health and reduce inequalities. An epidemiologist by training, I mainly use quantitative methods in my research. I have a strong background in public health nutrition in the UK, since my PhD focused on the impact of food environments on people's food purchasing. I am currently analysing changes in population-level purchasing of foods away from home following the implementation of mandatory calorie labelling in large food businesses in England as part of an NIHR SPHR-funded policy evaluation.
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