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Dr Laura Cornelsen

MSc PhD

Associate Professor
in Public Health Economics and MRC Career Development Fellow

Room
219

LSHTM
15-17 Tavistock Place
London
WC1H 9SH
United Kingdom

Tel.
02079588339

I have a MSc degree in Health Economics from University of York and a PhD degree in Economics from Trinity College Dublin. My PhD work focused on the economic impacts of tobacco control policies in Ireland. After two years of post-doctoral work at the Leverhulme Centre for Integrative Research on Agriculture and Health (LCIRAH) on agri-health economics, I was awarded a fellowship in Economics of Health, funded by the UK Medical Research Council (MRC) in 2014. The fellowship work looked at the indirect impact of food taxes and subsidies on food consumption and population health in the UK. In 2017, I was awarded a Career Development Award by the UK MRC. My current research interests focus on understanding linkages between public health and food systems changes, including the role of food prices as well as health-related food policies in influencing health outcomes. I work with large disaggregated household food and beverage expenditure data but also have an interest in choice experiment methods for the prospective analysis of policy effects. 

I am a co-director of Population Health Innovation Lab (PHI|Lab) and part of the Global Health Economics Centre.

Affiliations

Faculty of Public Health and Policy
Department of Public Health, Environments and Society

Teaching

I teach on Introduction to Health Economics and Economic Analysis of Health Policy modules

Research

Research Area
Health policy
Public health
Agriculture
Alcohol
Food
Discipline
Economics

Selected Publications

Patterns of beverage purchases amongst British households: A latent class analysis.
Berger N; Cummins S; Allen A; Smith RD; Cornelsen L
2020
PLoS medicine
Between preferences and references: Asymmetric price elasticities and the simulation of fiscal policies
Biondi B; Cornelsen L; Mazzocchi M; Smith R
2020
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
The impact of UK soft drinks industry levy on manufacturers' domestic turnover.
Law C; Cornelsen L; Adams J; Pell D; Rutter H; White M; Smith R
2020
Economics & Human Biology
An analysis of the stock market reaction to the announcements of the UK Soft Drinks Industry Levy.
Law C; Cornelsen L; Adams J; Penney T; Rutter H; White M; Smith R
2020
Economics & Human Biology
Purchase trends of processed foods and beverages in urban India.
Law C; Green R; Kadiyala S; Shankar B; Knai C; Brown KA; Dangour AD; Cornelsen L
2019
Global Food Security
Potential impact on prevalence of obesity in the UK of a 20% price increase in high sugar snacks: modelling study.
Scheelbeek PFD; Cornelsen L; Marteau TM; Jebb SA; Smith RD
2019
BMJ (Clinical research ed.)
Change in non-alcoholic beverage sales following a 10-pence levy on sugar-sweetened beverages within a national chain of restaurants in the UK: interrupted time series analysis of a natural experiment.
Cornelsen L; Mytton OT; Adams J; Gasparrini A; Iskander D; Knai C; Petticrew M; Scott C; Smith R; Thompson C
2017
Journal of epidemiology and community health
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