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NCD Prevention and Food Policy Research Group

Our multidisciplinary Cardiovascular Disease Prevention and Food Policy Research Programme pursues world class research using cutting edge methodologies to analyse, interpret and promote effective and cost-effective policy interventions to promote health and prevent non-communicable diseases.

Objectives

  • Development of a range of quantitative models to help explain past cardiovascular disease (CVD) trends, and compare future mortality projections under contrasting policy scenarios
  • Exploring diverse modelling methodologies, including discrete event simulations, cell-based, Markov and econometric models, and microsimulation.
  • Examining potential associations between social inequalities, prevention policies, healthy eating interventions and population-level outcomes
  • Using qualitative and quantitative approaches to explore UK, US and European perspectives on the most effective & cost-effective public health nutrition options to prevent non-communicable diseases
  • Developing policy tools to assess the implementation of public health nutrition policies
  • Developing effective, feasible and cost-saving cardiovascular prevention strategies
  • Examining nutritional interventions from different perspectives including policy decision makers, professionals, and the wider public.

Our two main research themes are modelling cardiovascular epidemiology and prevention policy, particularly food.