CEDAR research draws on the expertise of a range of scientific disciplines, including behavioural science, biostatistics, epidemiology, health economics, health geography, and nutrition research. Our research is supported by specialist expertise in data management, study coordination and communications.
All our researchers and staff are listed below. For general enquiries, please see our Contact us page.
Jump to – Centre & programme leads – Researchers – PhD Students – Research support – Former members
Centre & programme leads
- Professor Nick Wareham – Director of CEDAR and the MRC Epidemiology Unit
- Dr Jean Adams – Evaluation of population interventions in 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 – Physical Activity and Public Health
- Dr Esther van Sluijs – Behavioural epidemiology of young people’s activity behaviour
- Martin White – Food systems and public health
- Dr James Woodcock – Public health modelling
- Nita Forouhi – Nutritional epidemiology programme, MRC Epidemiology Unit
- Prof Simon Griffin – Professor Programme Leader, Prevention of Diabetes and Related Metabolic Disorders Programme & Professor of of General Practice Department of Public Health and Primary Care.
Researchers
- Dr Ali Abbas – Public Health Modelling
- Roxanne Armstrong-Moore – Food Systems and Public Health
- Dr Thomas Burgoine – Social, Economic and Neighbourhood Determinants of Diet
- Nick Bundle – Physical Activity and Public Health
- Dr Emma Coombes – Environmental Determinants of Physical Activity and Dietary Behaviour
- Dr Kirsten Corder – Behavioural Epidemiology of Young People’s Activity Behaviour
- 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 Rahul Goel – Public Health Modelling
- Dr Justin Guagliano – Behavioural Epidemiology of Young People’s Activity Behaviour
- Dr Kathryn Hesketh – Behavioural Epidemiology of Young People’s Activity Behaviour (UCL / Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow)
- Dr Oliver Mytton – Dietary Public Health
- Dr Jenna Panter – Physical Activity and Public Health
- David Pell – Food Systems and Public Health
- Dr Tarra Penney – Food Systems and Public Health
- Dr Marko Tainio – Public Health Modelling
- Dr Lambed Tatah – Public Health Modelling
- Dr Eleanor Winpenny – Behavioural Epidemiology of Young People’s Activity Behaviour / Food Systems and Public Health
PhD Students
- Miriam Alvarado – Dietary Public Health
- Chloe Clifford Astbury – Dietary Public Health
- Hannah Forde – Evaluation of Population Interventions in 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 – Physical Activity and Public Health
- Sonja Klingberg – Behavioural Epidemiology of Young People’s Activity Behaviour
- Rebecca Love – Behavioural Epidemiology of Young People’s Activity Behaviour
- Kai Schulze – Food Systems and Public Health
- Lindsey Smith – Physical Activity and Public Health
- Dolly Theis – Food Systems and Public Health
- Lindsey Smith – Physical Activity and Public Health
- Amy Yau – Food Systems and 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 – Social, Economic and Neighbourhood Determinants of Diet
- Dr Andy Atkin – Behavioural epidemiology of young people’s activity behaviour
- Dr Helen Elizabeth Brown – Behavioural Epidemiology of Young People’s Activity Behaviour
- Dr Silvia Costa – Evaluation of Population Interventions in Dietary Public Health
- Dr Caroline Croxon (nee Jones) – Physical Activity and Public Health
- Dr Katherine Cullerton – Food Systems and Public Health
- Katrine Ejlerskov – Dietary Public Health
- Dr Catherine Gammon – Behavioural Epidemiology of Young People’s Activity Behaviour
- Dr Philippe Giabbanelli – Public Health Modelling
- Dr Yevgeniy Goryakin
- Dr Cornelia Guell – Physical Activity and Public Health
- Dr Flo Harrison – Environmental determinants of physical activity and dietary behaviour
- Dr Eva Heinen – Physical Activity and Public Health
- Dr Vivien Hendry – Social, Economic and Neighbourhood Determinants of Diet
- Dr David Humphreys – Physical Activity and Public Health
- Dr Stephanie Jong – Behavioural Epidemiology of Young People’s Activity Behaviour
- Joanna Kesten – Physical Activity and Public Health
- Dr Adam Martin – Economics of diet, physical activity and obesity
- Dr Calum Mattocks – Physical Activity and Public Health
- Dr Alison McMinn – Behavioural epidemiology of young people’s activity behaviour
- Dr Katie Morton – Behavioural epidemiology of young people’s activity behaviour
- Dr Ryota Nakamura – Economics of diet, physical activity and obesity
- Dr Rick Prins – Physical Activity and Public Health
- Dr Shannon Sahlqvist – Physical Activity and Public Health
- Dr James Smith – Public Health Registrar (seconded to CEDAR Feb – Aug 2012)
Former PhD students
- Dr Sophie Attwood
- Caoimhe Twohig Bennett – Environmental Determinants of Physical Activity and Dietary Behaviour
- 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
