CEDAR draws on the expertise of a wide range of scientific disciplines, including behavioural science, biostatistics, epidemiology, health economics, health geography, and nutrition research.
Our work is underpinned by the systems and structures of the MRC Epidemiology Unit, including specialist expertise in data management, study coordination, the measurement of diet and physical activity behaviours and communications.
All our members are listed below. For general enquiries, please see our Contact us page.
Jump to – Centre & research leads – Researchers – PhD Students – Research support – Former members
Centre & research leads
- Professor Nick Wareham – Director of the MRC Epidemiology Unit and CEDAR
- Dr Jean Adams – Population Health Interventions / Dietary Public Health
- Professor Andy Jones – Environmental determinants of physical activity and dietary behaviour
- Dr Rajalakshmi Lakshman – Development and evaluation of interventions in infant feeding
- Dr Sara Benjamin Neelon – Policy and environmental approaches to obesity prevention in pregnancy and childhood
- Dr David Ogilvie – Population Health Interventions / Physical Activity and Public Health
- Dr Esther van Sluijs – Behavioural Epidemiology and Interventions in Young People
- Professor Martin White – Population Health Interventions / Dietary Public Health
- Dr James Woodcock – Public Health Modelling
- Nita Forouhi – Nutritional Epidemiology , MRC Epidemiology Unit
- Prof Simon Griffin – Professor Programme Leader, Prevention of Diabetes and Related Metabolic Disorders in High Risk Groups, MRC Epidemiology Unit & Professor of of General Practice Department of Public Health and Primary Care.
Researchers
- Dr Ali Abbas – Public Health Modelling
- Dr Miriam Alvarado – Population Health Interventions
- Roxanne Armstrong-Moore – Population Health Interventions / Dietary Public Health
- Dr Thomas Burgoine – Population Health Interventions / Dietary Public Health
- Dr Emma Coombes – Environmental Determinants of Physical Activity and Dietary Behaviour
- Dr Alice Dalton – Environmental determinants of physical activity and dietary behaviour
- Kate Ellis – Population Health Interventions
- Dr Louise Foley – Global Diet and Activity Research / Physical Activity and Public Health
- Hannah Forde – Population Health Interventions
- Dr Kathryn Hesketh – Behavioural Epidemiology and Interventions in Young People (UCL / Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow)
- Dr Erika Ikeda – Behavioural Epidemiology and Interventions in Young People
- Kyriaki (Kelly) Kokka – Public Health Modelling
- Dr SM Labib – Public Health Modelling
- Dr Jenna Panter – Population Health Interventions / Physical Activity and Public Health
- Richard Patterson – Population Health Interventions
- Dr Catrin Penn-Jones – Population Health Interventions
- John Rahilly – Population Health Interventions
- Nina Rogers – Population Health Interventions
- Harry Singh-Lalli – Population Health Interventions
- Dr Rohit Sharma – Public Health Modelling
- Dr Lambed Tatah – Public Health Modelling
- Dr Eleanor Winpenny – Behavioural Epidemiology and Interventions in Young People
- Dr Anna Goodman – London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (Visiting Fellow)
- Erin Hoare – Visiting Fellow from Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia
PhD Students
- Olivia Alliott – Population Health Interventions
- Campbell Foubister – Behavioural Epidemiology and Interventions in Young People
- Judith Fynn – Environmental determinants of physical activity and dietary behaviour
- Yuru Huang – Population Health Interventions
- Nancy Karreman – Population Health Interventions
- Matthew Keeble – Population Health Interventions
- Rizka Maulida – Behavioural Epidemiology and Interventions in Young People
- Mairead Ryan – Behavioural Epidemiology and Interventions in Young People
- Rachel Simpson – Behavioural Epidemiology and Interventions in Young People
- Corin Staves – Public Health Modelling
- Dolly Theis – Population Health Interventions / Dietary Public Health
- Christina Xiao – Population Health Interventions
- Andre Werneck – Visiting student, Universidade Estadual Paulista, São Paulo, Brazil
Research Support
MRC Epidemiology Unit Functional Group: The Functional Group within the MRC Epidemiology Unit contributes actively to CEDAR research. This includes studies that are led by CEDAR, studies led by others where CEDAR is contributing new data and also use of existing data sets. The Unit Functional Group comprises a number of teams of which anthropometry, data management, field epidemiology, IT, physical activity, statistics and study coordination are particularly involved in CEDAR research.
Former CEDAR Members
Former investigators
Former researchers and secondees
- Emilie Aguirre
- Dr Andy Atkin
- Dr Helen Elizabeth Brown
- Nick Bundle
- Dr Kirsten Corder
- Dr Silvia Costa
- Dr Caroline Croxon (nee Jones)
- Dr Katherine Cullerton
- Katrine Ejlerskov
- Dr Catherine Gammon
- Dr Leandro Garcia
- Dr Philippe Giabbanelli
- Dr Rahul Goel
- Dr Yevgeniy Goryakin
- Dr Justin Guagliano
- Dr Cornelia Guell
- Dr Flo Harrison
- Dr Eva Heinen
- Dr Vivien Hendry
- Dr David Humphreys
- Dr Stephanie Jong
- Joanna Kesten
- Dr Craig Knott
- Dr Adam Martin
- Dr Calum Mattocks
- Dr Alison McMinn
- Dr Katie Morton
- Dr Oliver Mytton
- Dr Ryota Nakamura
- Dr David Pell
- Dr Tarra Penney
- Dr Rick Prins
- Dr Shannon Sahlqvist
- Dr James Smith – Public Health Registrar (seconded to CEDAR Feb – Aug 2012)
- Dr Marko Tainio
Former PhD students
- Dr Chloe Clifford Astbury
- Dr Sophie Attwood
- Dr Caoimhe Twohig Bennett
- Dr Inka Barnett
- Dr Hannah Brooke
- Dr Sarah Hanson
- Dr Andreea Cetateanu
- Dr Annalijn Conklin
- Dr Nicholas Jones
- Dr Sonja Klingberg
- Dr Kate Lachowycz
- Dr Anna Le Gouais
- Dr Rebecca Love
- Dr Eva Maguire
- Dr Esther Rind
- Dr Kai Schulze
- Dr Lee Smith
- Dr Lindsey Smith
- Dr Lin Yang
- Dr Amy Yau