Hosted by the Centre for Exercise, Nutrition and Health Sciences at the School for Policy Studies

Please register for your free place (including for the lunch) through this link: Jerry Morris Annual Lecture: Incorporating environmental sustainability of diets into public health | University of Bristol Online Shop

Abstract: Without changes to our diets it will be impossible to achieve the Paris Climate Agreement of limiting temperature increases to 1.5 degrees, or to meet the UK Government’s Net Zero targets. Policy action to change dietary behaviour in the UK and elsewhere has been tempered by powerful interests and government reluctance to be branded a ‘nanny state’. 

Prof Pete Scarborough will consider the challenges and opportunities that arise from building on current public health policy to incorporate both health and sustainability of diets

Bio: Prof Scarborough leads the Sustainable Healthy Food Group in NDPHCS at the University of Oxford and is a fellow of the Oxford Martin School. His research focusses on evaluating population approaches to increase the uptake of healthy, sustainable diets. This includes influences of food choice, including food price, food labelling, marketing of foods and food accessibility.   

Pete is the Principal Investigator of the COPPER, SHIFT and SALIENT projects funded by NIHR, Wellcome Trust and UKRI respectively. Much of his work has been built around health models that estimate the population health impact of changes in diet (and other risk factors for disease). More recently, his work has focused on integrating models of health, environmental sustainability and economics. He also works on evaluations of major public health policy, including the UK soft drinks industry levy. Pete has given evidence to the Health Select Committee enquiry on childhood obesity and has sat on expert advisory groups for Public Health England.