Professor Mike Rayner
Websites
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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 Oxford Population Health.
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.
Mike's research has been on all aspects of the prevention of NCDs 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.
Formerly he was Director of the Centre on Population Approaches for Non-Communicable Disease Prevention, based in the department, which was a World Health Organization Collaborating Centre from 2013- 2021. The centre carried out research and training related to the prevention of non-communicable diseases (NCDs).
Recent publications
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The healthiness and sustainability of national and global food based dietary guidelines: modelling study.
Journal article
Springmann M. et al, (2020), BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 370
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A systematic review, and meta-analysis, examining the prevalence of price promotions on foods and whether they are more likely to be found on less-healthy foods.
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Kaur A. et al, (2020), Public health nutrition, 23, 1281 - 1296
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Proceedings of a roundtable event ‘Is communicating the concept of nutrient density important?’
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Lockyer S. et al, (2020), Nutrition Bulletin, 45, 74 - 97
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Impact of the announcement and implementation of the UK Soft Drinks Industry Levy on sugar content, price, product size and number of available soft drinks in the UK, 2015-19: A controlled interrupted time series analysis.
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Scarborough P. et al, (2020), PLoS medicine, 17
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Improving Nutrition Information in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: Implementation of Front-Of-Pack Nutrition Labelling.
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Al-Jawaldeh A. et al, (2020), Nutrients, 12