Nigel is a public health physician and epidemiologist with a longstanding interest in the distribution, determinants and prevention of diabetes and related non-communicable diseases, both in the UK and in lower income settings outside the UK. Over the past few years his research interests have increasingly focused on food systems and the interrelated challenges of achieving sustainable, resilient, food production and improved, equitable human nutrition.

He began and developed his academic career at Newcastle University, becoming a professor of epidemiology, has worked as a medical health officer at the World Health Organization in Geneva, and been a professor of population health sciences at the University of the West Indies. Along with his current part time position at the University of Exeter, he is also director of research in global public health research at the University of Cambridge.

Nigel’s current research aims to understand and intervene on the links between food production and ecosystem and human health i.e. on the links between food production and planetary health. Much of his current work is being undertaken in collaboration with partners in the Caribbean, Pacific and Philippines, in small island settings where the challenges of climate change, food insecurity, and nutrition related diseases are particularly acute. This work is interdisciplinary, involving, for example, collaboration between agricultural, environmental, social and population health scientists.

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