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Meet the Team

Principal Investigator

Jayne Woodside Professor of Human Nutrition Queen’s University Belfast

Jayne Woodside is Professor of Human Nutrition within the Centre for Public Health at Queen’s University Belfast. She also leads the Food, Nutrition and Health theme and is Deputy Director of the Institute for Global Food Security. Her research is focused on how diet and lifestyle affect chronic disease risk. She specialises in the use of biomarkers to assess dietary intake, conducting controlled dietary interventions and interventions to promote long-term dietary change. Jayne has published widely in the nutrition field, with >180 original publications and has current funding from the Medical Research Council, National Institute for Health Research and the Wellcome Trust. Jayne is a Trustee of the Nutrition Society, and is Honorary Publication Officer with responsibility for the Society’s five journals including the British Journal of Nutrition and Public Health Nutrition.

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Newcastle University
Ashley Adamson

Professor of Public Health Nutrition, Institute of Health & Society and Human Nutrition Research Centre, Faculty of Medical Sciences

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University of Dundee
Annie S Anderson

Professor of Public Health Nutrition, Ninewells Medical School

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University of Bristol
Angeliki Papadaki

Senior Lecturer in Public Health Nutrition

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Queen’s University Belfast
Ciaran O’Neill

Professor of Health Economics, Centre for Public Health, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Science

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Swansea University
Sinead Brophy

Professor of Public Health Data Science, School of Medicine

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University of Glasgow
Stephanie Chambers

Research Fellow

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University of New Brunswick
Stephan Dombrowski

Assistant Professor

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University of Bristol
Laura Johnson

Senior Lecturer in Public Health Nutrition

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University of Leeds
Charlotte Evans

Associate Professor in Public Health Nutrition and Nutritional Epidemiology School of Food Science and Nutrition

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University of Reading
Jeremy P E Spencer

Professor of Nutritional Medicine

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University of Reading
Julie Lovegrove

Hugh Sinclair Professor of Human Nutrition, Hugh Sinclair Unit of Human Nutrition and Institute for Cardiovascular and Metabolic Research (ICMR)

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University of Reading
Kate Harvey

Associate Professor in Health Psychology

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Queen’s University Belfast
Michelle McKinley

Professor of Public Health Nutrition, Institute for Global Food Security (Centre for Public Health), School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Science

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Newcastle University
Suzanne Spence

Fuse-Newcastle University Research Fellow, Human Nutrition Research Centre, Institute of Health & Society

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Queen’s University Belfast
Ruth Hunter

Reader in Public Health, Centre for Public Health, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Science

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Hannah Ensaff
University of Leeds

Lecturer in Nutrition

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University of Reading
Lisa Methven

Professor of Food and Sensory Science

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Queen’s University Belfast
Laura Dunne

Senior Lecturer, School of Social Science, Education and Social Work

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Cardiff University
Kevin Morgan

Professor of Governance and Development

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