Professor Steven Cummins

Steven Cummins is Professor of Population Health and NIHR Senior Investigator in the Department of Public Health, Environments & Society at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine where he also co-leads LSHTM’s Population Health Innovation Lab. He is a geographer with training in epidemiology and public health and his research interests include the role of the food environment in determining diet-related health and health inequalities, the evaluation of food system policies and interventions and complex systems thinking. Much of this work is focused on food retail system transformation and its implications for sustainable and healthy diets, with a particular interest in the impact of technology-driven changes (delivery, advertising, retail, sustainability) and the evaluation of population-level interventions to change food purchasing behaviours.

He has a strong interest in the funding and delivery of innovative and impactful public health research and evidence-based policy. He has served as Chair and Member of many strategic funding committees in the UK and internationally, acted as a member of the Global Advisory Committee of The Movember Foundation and was previously a member of the FSA’s Social Science Research Committee (now AcSS). Outside of his academic role he has spent over a decade as Governor and Chair of Governors of a number  primary and secondary schools in South East London, some of it with a remit for improving school food.

Register of Interest

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