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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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
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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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Big food and the World Health Organization: a qualitative study of industry attempts to influence global-level non-communicable disease policy
Lauber, K., Rutter, H. & Gilmore, A. B., 11 Jun 2021, In: BMJ Global Health. 6, 6, e005216.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Changes in soft drinks purchased by British households associated with the UK soft drinks industry levy: controlled interrupted time series analysis
Pell, D., Mytton, O., Penney, T. L., Briggs, A., Cummins, S., Penn-Jones, C., Rayner, M., Rutter, H., Scarborough, P., Sharp, S. J., Smith, R. D., White, M. & Adams, J., 10 Mar 2021, In: BMJ. 372, n254.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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Contamination within trials of community-based public health interventions: lessons from the HENRY feasibility study
Stamp, E., Schofield, H., Roberts, V. L., Burton, W., Collinson, M., Stevens, J., Farrin, A., Rutter, H. & Bryant, M., 26 Mar 2021, In: Pilot and Feasibility Studies. 7, 1Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access