Miss Megan Deeney

Research Fellow

London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Keppel Street
London
WC1E 7HT
United Kingdom

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Megan

I am a Research Fellow and doctoral student in the Innovative Methods and Metrics for Agriculture and Nutrition Actions (IMMANA) programme, within the Nutrition Group at LSHTM.

My doctoral research project explores the effect of circular economy policy strategies for plastic waste reduction in the food system on global human health outcomes, considering environmental health pathways such as climate change, air pollution and toxicity.

I have worked on large-scale syntheses of evidence of food system plastic effects on the environment, food security and human health, and also on evidence linking food systems and nutrition to global mental health.

I completed my Master's degree in Nutrition for Global Health at LSHTM in 2018.

Affiliations

Department of Population Health

Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health

Teaching

I co-organise the Maternal and Child Nutrition core module for the Nutrition for Global Health MSc at LSHTM

Research

My research interests include diverse intersections between food systems, circular economies and health, and in particular applying life cycle assessment methods to global health analyses

Research Area

Global Health

Environment

Environmental Health

Modelling

Selected Publications

Human health effects of recycling and reusing food sector consumer plastics: A systematic review and meta-analysis of life cycle assessments

DEENEY, M; GREEN, R; Yan, X; Dooley, C; YATES, J; Rolker, HB; KADIYALA, S;

2023

Journal of Cleaner Production

Centring human health in the global plastics treaty: a call to action.

DEENEY, M; YATES, J; GREEN, R; KADIYALA, S;

2022

BMJ global health

Systematic evidence and gap map of research linking food security and nutrition to mental health.

SPARLING, TM; DEENEY, M; Cheng, B; Han, X; Lier, C; Lin, Z; OFFNER, C; Santoso, MV; Pfeiffer, E; Emerson, JA; Amadi, FM; Mitu, K; Corvalan, C; Verdeli, H; Araya, R; KADIYALA, S;

2022

Nature Communications

Food waste interventions in low-and-middle-income countries: A systematic literature review

Rolker, H; Eisler, M; Cardenas, L; DEENEY, M; Takahashi, T;

2022

Resources, conservation & recycling

Food systems resilience. Is circularity the answer?

DEENEY, M; YATES, J;

2022

Nitrate and nitrite contamination in drinking water and cancer risk: A systematic review with meta-analysis.

PICETTI, R; DEENEY, M; PASTORINO, S; Miller, MR; SHAH, A; LEON, DA; Dangour, AD; GREEN, R;

2022