PI: Dr Cornelia Guell

Funders: Medical Research Council (MRC)

Current public health strategies fail to effectively promote adequate nutrition in populations, because they focus on individuals' behaviours and choices without addressing larger influences such as food cultures and food systems. Instead, healthy environments need to be created that enable easy access to healthy and nutritious food. Cities in an increasingly urbanising world are ideal places for such transformation.

 The project will map health data onto the historical data to produce an interactive map of the evolution of foodscapes, which will be used to engage with both policymakers and the public as a tool to aid the creation of healthy environments that enable easy access to healthy and nutritious food.