Professor Mike Rayner
Research groups
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 and Director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre on Population Approaches for Non-Communicable Disease Prevention (CC PNP)
Mike Rayner is a Professor of Population Health at the Nuffield Department of Population Health and Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre on Population Approaches for Non-Communicable Disease Prevention, based in the department. The British Heart Foundation Health Promotion Research Group, based in the then Department of Public Health, which Mike founded in 1993, became a World Health Organisation Collaborating in 2013. The centre carries out research and conducts other activities related to the prevention of NCDs.
Mike is also Chair of Sustain: the alliance for better food and farming in the UK and Chair of its Children’s Food Campaign. He is Chair of the Nutrition Expert Group for the European Heart Network. He is also an ordained priest in the Church of England.
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), The Lancet. Public health, 2, e15 - e22
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Nutrient profiling for regulatory purposes.
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Rayner M., (2017), The Proceedings of the Nutrition Society, 76, 230 - 236
Recent publications
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The healthiness and sustainability of national and global food based dietary guidelines: modelling study.
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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