About HWPRU

Meet the team

Our vision

To provide the evidence needed to help government deploy policy to reduce the prevalence and burden of obesity and its comorbidities across the life-course
To work with world-class researchers from a broad range of backgrounds
To work effectively with patient and public representatives
To use cutting-edge methodologies

Our work is carried out across four workstreams

Lifecourse prevention and weight management

Led by Russell Viner and Oliver Mytton at the Institute for Child Health (UCL)

Behavioural science

Led by Andrew Steptoe and Clare Llewellyn at the Behavioural Science and Health (UCL)

Economic circumstances and outcomes

Led by Rachel Griffith and Britta Augsburg at the Institute for Fiscal Studies

Food systems and policy analysis

Led by Christina Vogel at The Centre for Food Policy at City University

Advisory Board

The HWPRU Advisory Board acts to provide independent, external and policy-orientated advice to the Healthy Weight Policy Research Unit. The Advisory Board functions as a 'critical friend', providing specific advice and support in relation to the strategic direction and the work programme. The Advisory Board is an advisory only body, it does not make decisions in its own right or report to any other group or committee.