Draper, Alizon - University of Westminster - Department of Life Sciences

个人简介

I am a reader in public health nutrition at the University of Westminster. I originally trained in social anthropology and my work thus focuses on the social and policy aspects of nutrition, particularly socio-cultural factors influencing food use and dietary intake. I have worked in the UK and internationally in both research and consultancy. The latter includes work for public sector organizations including the UK Department for International Development (DfID), the Wellcome Trust, World Health Organization(WHO), American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR), United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the UK Food Standards Agency (FSA). I was a member of the project management panel that oversaw the FSA's large 2007 - 2009 study on consumer understanding of front-of-pack food labels that underpins current UK policy. I was also a member of the FSA Advisory Group 2009-2010 for their review of reviews to examine the effectiveness of dietary interventions and on the GAIN (Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition) advisory group to oversee the development of their Focused Ethnographic Survey approach. In 2010 I provided input to the UK Government Foresight Assessment The Future of Food and Farming. Currently I am a member of the FSA's Social Science Research Committee, one of the UK Government's Scientific Advisory Committees.

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My research focuses on the interface between social science and public health nutrition, and within this the application of the theory and methods of social science to public health nutrition; and the evaluation of public health interventions and the use of participatory and qualitative methods in this.