Projects per year
Personal profile
Research interests
- Complex systems
- Communicable and non-communicable disease prevention
- Environment and sustainability
- Climate change and health
- Obesity
- Physical activity
- Structural drivers of health and illness
- Health inequalities
- Evidence and policy
- Urbanisation
- Global health
Other responsibilities
- Attendee of UK Government Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE), and co-chair of SAGE Environment and Modelling Group 2020-
- Co-Chair, Lancet-Chatham House Commission on improving population health post COVID-19
- Member, NHS Net Zero expert panel 2020
- National Institute for Health Research Public Health Research Programme Prioritisation Committee 2015-
- Member, Strategic Council for the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Obesity 2020-
- Wellcome Trust mental health programme expert adviser, 2020-
- Member, World Obesity Federation Policy and Prevention Committee 2020-
- Royal Society of Medicine Epidemiology and Public Health Council member 2020-
- Academy of Medical Sciences international expert panel on systems thinking and health 2020
- Study Steering Committee, NIHR project 129406 on The air quality health and economic costs and benefits of a zero carbon UK, 2020-2023
- Advisory group, UKPRP Population Health Agent-based Simulation Network, 2020-2024
- Member, DHSC / PHE / LGA Childhood Obesity Trailblazer Programme Steering Group 2019-
- Member, Science Advisory Council, Department of Culture, Media and Sport 2015-
- Chair - scientific advisory board for the Irish Health Review Board Centre for Health and Diet Research 2010-2020
- WHO Europe Health Economic Assessment Tool for walking and cycling steering group 2000-
- WHO Europe Child Obesity Surveillance Initiative steering group 2008-
- WHO Europe Environmental Health Economics Network steering group 2012-
- Guy’s and St Thomas’ Trust Evaluation Advisory Group, 2018-
- Expert Adviser, NHS England Healthy New Towns programme, 2018-2020
- Public Health England Revalidation Steering Group 2017-
- Board member, Faculty of Public Health, April 2016-2019
- Expert advisory committee, The Food Foundation, 2015-
- Editorial board, Journal of Transport and Health 2015-2020
- Department of Health Expert Advisory Group on obesity (to 2011)
- Project management team for Foresight obesity project 2006-7
- Chair - NICE Programme Delivery Group on guidance on walking and cycling
- NICE Programme Delivery Group Obesity: working with local communities
- External examiner, MSc Health Policy, City University, 2012-2017
- Trustee, Centre for Sustainable Healthcare 2012-2020
Education/Academic qualification
Postgraduate Diploma in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, University of Oxford
Award Date: 5 Dec 2008
Public Health, Master of Science, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Award Date: 17 Feb 2001
Medical Sciences Tripos, Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery, University of Cambridge
Award Date: 16 Dec 1991
External positions
Adjunct Professor of Public Health, Agder University
Mar 2018 → …Senior strategic adviser, Public Health England
Feb 2012 → Apr 2020Adunct Professor of Public Health, University College Cork
Feb 2011 → …Keywords
- RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine
- Complex systems
- Obesity
- Physical activity
- Sustainability
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Projects
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NIHR evidence review
National Institute for Health Research
1/07/20 → 28/02/22
Project: Central government, health and local authorities
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Voluntary agreements to improve diet and nutrition in the UK: Evidence Synthesis to inform how to improve these policy mechanisms
1/07/20 → 31/12/21
Project: Central government, health and local authorities
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SDIL Evaluation: Evaluation of the health impacts of the UK Treasury Soft Drinks Industry Levy (SDIL)
National Institute for Health Research
1/09/18 → 31/12/21
Project: Central government, health and local authorities
Research output
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A systems approach to scale-up for population health improvement
Koorts, H. & Rutter, H., 1 Mar 2021, In: Health Research Policy and Systems. 19, 1, 27.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Changing behaviour: an essential component of tackling health inequalities
Marteau, T. M., Rutter, H. & Marmot, M., 10 Feb 2021, In: BMJ. 372, 332.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Evaluation of public health interventions from a complex systems perspective: a research methods review
McGill, E., Er, V., Penney, T., Egan, M., White, M., Meier, P., Whitehead, M., Lock, K., Anderson de Cuevas, R., Smith, R., Savona, N., Rutter, H., Marks, D., de Vocht, F., Cummins, S., Popay, J. & Petticrew, M., 31 Mar 2021, In: Social Science and Medicine. 272, 113697.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Identifying the views of adolescents in five European countries on the drivers of obesity using group model building
Savona, N., Macauley, T., Aguiar, A., Banik, A., Boberska, M., Brock, J., Brown, A., Hayward, J., Holbæk, H., Rito, A. I., Mendes, S., Vaaheim, F., van Houten, M., Veltkamp, G., Allender, S., Rutter, H. & Knai, C., 20 Feb 2021, In: European Journal of Public Health.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The case for developing a cohesive systems approach to research across unhealthy commodity industries
Knai, C., Petticrew, M., Capewell, S., Cassidy, R., Collin, J., Cummins, S., Eastmure, E., Fafard, P., Fitzgerald, N., Gilmore, A. B., Hawkins, B., Jensen, J. D. A., Katikireddi, S. V., Maani, N., Mays, N., Mwatsama, M., Nakkash, R., Orford, J. F., Rutter, H., Savona, N. & 2 others, , 16 Feb 2021, In: BMJ Global Health. 6, 2, e0003543.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access