RESEARCH

Current grants

 

Wellcome Trust. Financing a Just Green Transition: Leveraging Critical Mineral Revenues and Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform for Health and Climate Equity in Indonesia. £1,617,050 2026-2030 Co-I

 
National Institute for Health and Care Research. Identifying and evaluating policy mechanisms to reduce ultraprocessed food consumption in the UK: health, equity and economic impacts (The UPForesight Project). £1,879,659 2026-29 Co-I
 

NIHR Senior Investigator. National Institute for Health and Care Research. £80,000 2025-29

NIHR Global Health Research Centre on NCDs and Environmental Change in Bangladesh, India and Indonesia. National Institute for Health and Care Research £9,995,084 2022-27 Joint P-I

NIHR Global Health Research Unit - National Institute for Health and Care Research. Health system financing in Brazil, India, Indonesia and South Africa. £6,987,000 2022-27 Co-I

NIHR Health Policy and Systems Research – National Institute for Health and Care Research. Health Financing Fragmentation and Universal Health Coverage in Brazil, Colombia, Mexico and India. £3,843,284 2022-27 Joint P-I

NIHR Global Health Research Group - National Institute for Health and Care Research. Physical Trauma from Injury & POsT Conflict; iPrOTeCT. £2,999,987 2022-27 Co-I

NIHR Global Health Research Development Award. Climate change and refugee health in the MENA region: co-producing a research agenda. National Institute for Health and Care Research. £102,111 2025 Co-I

UK Medical Research Council. Advancing double-duty actions to address the dual threat of climate change and malnutrition. Non-Clinical Fellowship £1,313,774 2023-28 (Awardee Paraskevi Seferidi; Research Sponsor and Mentor)

Health Systems Research Initiative - Medical Research Council. Urban violence and pacification in Rio's favelas: innovative approaches to measurement and quantifying health system impacts £200,000 Co-I

Cancer Research UK. Consumption of ultra-processed foods and cancer risk: comprehensive analysis across two large European Cohorts (UltraCan). £286,635 P-I 2020-2023

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council. Addressing the double burden of malnutrition in Peru: using a community-based system dynamics approach to improve food systems. £679,475 P-I 2020-2023

Health Systems Research Initiative -Medical Research Council. Identifying a package of cost effective interventions to address non-communicable diseases in Gaza. £199,000 Co-I 2019-2022

National Institute for Health and Care Research. School of Public Health Research. £25 million. P-I for Imperial College 2017-2022 (renewed 2022-2029)

GRANTS

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    Consumption of ultra-processed foods and cancer development: comprehensive analysis in more than 1 million individuals
    Cancer Research UK1 Feb 2020 - 31 Jan 2023
    CRUK: Consumption of ultra-processed foods and cancer development: comprehensive analysis in more than 1 million individuals (2020-2023)
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    Investigating the long-term relationship between cardiovascular and metabolic factors and the risk of dementia in people with Type 2 diabetes
    Diabetes UK1 May 2019 - 31 Oct 2022
    Diabetes UK: Investigating the long-term relationship between cardiovascular and metabolic factors and the risk of dementia in people with Type 2 diabetes (2019-2022)
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    The extent to which health systems serving refugee populations with low and uncertain funding can achieve the UN 25 x 25 target for non-communicable diseases
    Medical Research Council (MRC)1 Feb 2019 - 31 Jan 2021
    MRC: The extent to which health systems serving refugee populations with low and uncertain funding can achieve the UN 25 x 25 target for non-communicable diseases (2019-2021)
  • STANDARD - CALL
    SPHR 2
    National Institute for Health Research1 Apr 2022 - 31 Mar 2029
    NIHR: SPHR 2 (2022-2029)
  • GRANT
    Ultra-processed food consumption and cancer, multi-morbidity and mortality
    World Cancer Research Fund International1 Mar 2021 - 28 Feb 2026
    World Cancer Research Fund International: Ultra-processed food consumption and cancer, multi-morbidity and mortality (2021-2026)
  • GRANT
    Imperial CoA MRC
    Medical Research Council (MRC)1 Sep 2020 - 1 Dec 2023
    MRC: Imperial CoA MRC (2020-2021)
  • FELLOWSHIP
    Advancing double-duty actions to address the dual threat of climate change and malnutrition
    UK Research and Innovation
    UK Research and Innovation: Advancing double-duty actions to address the dual threat of climate change and malnutrition (2023-2028)