The Public Health and Global Nutrition research theme addresses some of the world’s most pressing public health issues related to nutrition. Our research aims to understand the role of nutrition in preventing disease and promoting health across the life course.
Our research focuses on understanding how environmental and socio-economic factors impact and interact with dietary behaviours and nutritional status and contribute to the health of diverse population groups. Our research is often translated into the development and testing of interventions to improve health, for example, we are currently exploring how the workplace impacts diet and health, and how sleep influences diet choices and cardiometabolic risk, and how maternal nutrition impacts child health in the first 1000 days. We also address the unique nutritional challenges in low- and middle-income countries, such as iron deficiency and vitamin D deficiency and low omega-3 fatty acid status.
