Dr Jean Adams
Biography
Jean’s research focuses on population-level influences on, and interventions to improve, dietary public health. She conducts observational, evaluative and theoretical work exploring how social, fiscal and physical environments influence what people eat and how these can be changed to help people eat better. Current and recent examples of research leadership include evaluations of the UK ‘soda tax’, ‘junk free’ supermarket checkouts, calorie menu labelling and food marketing restrictions.
Jean has been academic director of Cambridge’s MPhil in Public Health since 2017. She led development of and is the inaugural academic director of the new MPhil in Population Health Sciences which will welcome its first students in October 2021.
Presentation: “Changing the environment to support healthier eating: opportunities and challenges”
Environmental changes like food taxes, marketing restrictions and local planning policies are increasingly being used to provide healthier food environments. Changing the physical, social and fiscal environment in which people make food choices may help to support more people to eat better, and may be particularly effective in more deprived groups and so help support dietary and health equity. However, these approaches can be difficult to gain public and political support for, and clear evidence of effectiveness is rarely available before implementation. In this talk I’ll consider some of the theoretical reasons why environmental changes may be useful for helping people to eat better, describe emerging evidence of effectiveness, and reflect on some of the challenges related to evaluation and implementation.
UKSBM 2022
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