This unit is a multi-disciplinary research team which conducts translational research to reduce dietary salt, sugar and saturated fat consumption across the whole population, and so prevent hypertension, obesity, type II diabetes, stroke, heart disease, heart failure and cancer. The unit’s research findings have been instrumental in the development and implementation of the UK’s salt reduction and obesity prevention programmes, which are now being copied around the world. The unit also carries out various research and public health programmes to reduce salt intake in several low- and middle-income countries, e.g. China, Malaysia.
The unit comprises research fellows, nutritionists and PhD students, and the registered charities Consensus Action on Salt, Sugar and Health, and Blood Pressure UK.
OUR TEAM
Roberta Alessandrini - PhD student
Sheena Bhageerutty - Assistant Nutritionist
Mhairi Brown - Nutrition Policy Co-Ordinator
Harriet Burt - Policy & Communications Officer
Zoe Davies - Nutritionist
Kawther Hashem - Campaign Lead & Research Fellow
Feng He - Unit Co-Lead
Graham MacGregor - Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine & Unit Co-Lead
Nirmala Markandu - Hypertension Nurse
Sonia Pombo - Campaign Manager (Nutritionist)
Jing Song - Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Monique Tan - Postdoctoral Research Fellow
María Isabel Valero Morales - PhD student
Changqiong Wang - Postdoctoral Research Fellow
CONTACT
Centre Manager - Craig Smith - c.a.smith@qmul.ac.uk
Wolfson Institute of Population Health, Charterhouse Square