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Dr Rachel Loopstra

Senior Lecturer Public Health, Policy & Systems

Research

Research Overview

My research interests include social and health consequences of food insecurity and its determinants, nutritional inequalities, impacts of austerity on food access and mental health, charitable food systems, and understanding the impacts of national and local policy interventions and food aid interventions on food insecurity.

Research Grants

SPHR3

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE (UK)

April 2022 - April 2027

SALIENT - Food System triALs for Impact on Environment, Nutrition and healTh)

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCIL

January 2023 - March 2025

Transforming Urban Food Systems for Planetary and Population Health (The Mandela Consortium)

BIOTECHNOLOGY & BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL

June 2022 - March 2026