Ms Amanda Karapici
Research Student - MPhil/PhD - Public Health & Policy
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
London
London
EC1V 8BY
United Kingdom
The purpose of my research is to explore and simulate the impact of interventions aimed at reducing exposure to the food retail environment, with a focus on decreasing the consumption of foods and beverages high in fat, salt, or sugar (HFSS food). The goals of the research are to understand how an individual's interaction with the food retail system produces unequal patterns of health in the population by using agent-based models and to explore how food purchasing behavior changes with the implementation of policies that encourage a healthier food retail environment.
Affiliations
Department of Public Health, Environments and Society
Faculty of Public Health and Policy
Teaching
I am a marker on the MSc module "Social Epidemiology" at LSHTM.
Research
I am interested in applying system methodologies in the public health field, such as System Dynamics and Agent-Based Modelling, to help decision-makers understand and predict a wide range of potential health effects, and capture their dynamic behavior in support of developing effective policy actions.
Research Area
Complex interventions
Environmental Health
Food
Health care policy
Health inequalities
Health outcomes
Health policy
Health systems
Modelling
Public health
Mathematical Modelling
Policy analysis
GIS/Spatial analysis
Disease and Health Conditions
Obesity
Country
United Kingdom
Region
European Union
Selected Publications
COVID-19: impact on the urban food retail system and dietary inequalities in the UK
2020
Cities & Health
COVID-19: impact on the urban food retail system, diet and health inequalities in the UK
2020
Center for Open Science