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
- 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 Kirsten Corder – Behavioural Epidemiology and Interventions in Young People
- Dr Alice Dalton – Environmental determinants of physical activity and dietary behaviour
- Dr Louise Foley – Global Diet and Activity Research / Physical Activity and Public Health
- Dr Leandro Garcia – Public Health Modelling
- Dr Justin Guagliano – Behavioural Epidemiology and Interventions in Young People
- Dr Kathryn Hesketh – Behavioural Epidemiology and Interventions in Young People (UCL / Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow)
- Dr Oliver Mytton – Population Health Interventions / Dietary Public Health
- Dr Jenna Panter – Population Health Interventions / Physical Activity and Public Health
- David Pell – Population Health Interventions / Dietary Public Health
- Dr Tarra Penney – Population Health Interventions / Dietary Public Health
- Dr Lambed Tatah – Public Health Modelling
- Dr Eleanor Winpenny – Behavioural Epidemiology and Interventions in Young People / Population Health Interventions
PhD Students
- Miriam Alvarado – Population Health Interventions / Dietary Public Health
- Chloe Clifford Astbury – Population Health Interventions / Dietary Public Health
- Hannah Forde – Population Health Interventions / Dietary Public Health
- Judith Fynn – Environmental determinants of physical activity and dietary behaviour
- Sarah Hanson – Environmental Determinants of Physical Activity and Dietary Behaviour
- Anna Le Gouais – Population Health Interventions / Physical Activity and Public Health
- Sonja Klingberg – Behavioural Epidemiology and Interventions in Young People
- Rebecca Love – Behavioural Epidemiology and Interventions in Young People
- Kai Schulze – Population Health Interventions / Dietary Public Health
- Lindsey Smith – Population Health Interventions / Physical Activity and Public Health
- Dolly Theis – Population Health Interventions / Dietary Public Health
- Lindsey Smith – Population Health Interventions / Physical Activity and Public Health
- Amy Yau – Population Health Interventions / Dietary Public Health
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 Silvia Costa
- Dr Caroline Croxon (nee Jones)
- Dr Katherine Cullerton
- Katrine Ejlerskov
- Dr Catherine Gammon
- Dr Philippe Giabbanelli
- Dr Rahul Goel
- Dr Yevgeniy Goryakin
- Dr Cornelia Guell
- Dr Flo Harrison
- Dr Eva Heinen
- Dr Vivien Hendry
- Dr David Humphreys
- Dr Stephanie Jong
- Joanna Kesten
- Dr Adam Martin
- Dr Calum Mattocks
- Dr Alison McMinn
- Dr Katie Morton
- Dr Ryota Nakamura
- 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 Sophie Attwood
- Caoimhe Twohig Bennett
- Dr Inka Barnett
- Dr Hannah Brooke
- Dr Andreea Cetateanu
- Dr Annalijn Conklin
- Dr Nicholas Jones
- Dr Kate Lachowycz
- Dr Eva Maguire
- Esther Rind
- Dr Lee Smith
- Dr Lin Yang
Former research support
