Professor Mike Rayner
Research groups
- Comparing nutrient profile model scores with food based dietary guidelines
- Evaluating the major drivers of salt consumption in the UK
- Give us this day our daily nutrients: healthy diets vs nutritious diets
- Holding the food industry to account: tracking the health and environmental impacts of food companies
- Pathways towards a healthy and sustainable British food system
- The health and environmental impacts of health and environmental claims in the UK
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Oxford Martin School
Principal Investigator, Oxford Martin Programme on the Future of Food
Mike Rayner
BA, DPhil
Professor of Population Health
Mike Rayner is a Professor of Population Health at the Nuffield Department of Population Health. Formerly he was Director of the Centre on Population Approaches for Non-Communicable Disease Prevention, based in the department, which was a World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre from 2013- 2021. The centre carried out research and training related to the prevention of NCDs.
Mike's research has been on all aspects of the prevention of non-communicable diseases with a focus on population based interventions to promote healthier eating such as improved food labelling, restrictions on the marketing of foods and health-related food taxes such as taxes on sugary drinks. He has a particular interest in nutrient profiling.
Mike is also Chair of Sustain: the alliance for better food and farming in the UK, He is Chair of the Nutrition Expert Group for the European Heart Network. He is an ordained priest in the Church of England.
WHO Collaborating Centre on Population Approaches to Non Communicable Disease Prevention: Publications
Key publications
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Nutrient composition databases in the age of big data: foodDB, a comprehensive, real-time database infrastructure.
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Harrington RA. et al, (2019), BMJ Open, 9
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Options for keeping the food system within environmental limits.
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Springmann M. et al, (2018), Nature, 562, 519 - 525
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Eatwell Guide: modelling the dietary and cost implications of incorporating new sugar and fibre guidelines.
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Scarborough P. et al, (2016), BMJ Open, 6
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Health impact assessment of the UK soft drinks industry levy: a comparative risk assessment modelling study.
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Briggs ADM. et al, (2017), Lancet Public Health, 2, e15 - e22
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Nutrient profiling for regulatory purposes.
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Rayner M., (2017), Proc Nutr Soc, 76, 230 - 236
Recent publications
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Parliamentary reaction to the announcement and implementation of the UK Soft Drinks Industry Levy: applied thematic analysis of 2016-2020 parliamentary debates.
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Jones CP. et al, (2024), Public Health Nutr, 1 - 29
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Changes in soft drinks purchased by British households associated with the UK soft drinks industry levy: a controlled interrupted time series analysis.
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Rogers NT. et al, (2023), BMJ Open, 13
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The development of a method for the global health community to assess the proportion of food and beverage companies' sales that are derived from unhealthy foods.
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Bandy L. et al, (2023), Global Health, 19
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Comparing product healthiness according to the Health Star Rating and the NOVA classification system and implications for food labelling systems: An analysis of 25 486 products in Australia.
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Barrett EM. et al, (2023), Nutr Bull
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Criterion validation of nutrient profiling systems: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
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Barrett EM. et al, (2023), Am J Clin Nutr