The University of Cambridge is one of nine leading academic centres with excellence in applied public health research which make up the NIHR School for Public Health Research (NIHR SPHR).
The University of Cambridge involvement in the School is led by Professor Carol Brayne CBE, Professor Martin White, Dr Louise Lafortune, Dr Esther van Sluijs and Professor Tamsin Ford.
There have been several different approaches to tackling obesity over a number of years and by successive governments, something that Dolly Theis, undertaking a PhD funded by NIHR SPHR, presented as a poster at our Annual Scientific Meeting in 2019. Dolly shows how various consultations, draft papers and reports on the measures now being announced have been considered over the last five years.
Four researchers from the NIHR School for Public Health Research have won a prestigious Emerald Literati Award for outstanding scholarly research.
Katia Asfalto
SPHR Administrator
Cambridge University
Cambridge Institute of Public Health
Forvie Site, Cambridge Biomedical Campus
Cambridge CB2 0SR
http://www.iph.cam.ac.uk/nihr-sphr/
ka561@medschl.cam.ac.uk
