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Megan Deeney

Research Assistant
Plastics and Global Health

Room
123

LSHTM
Keppel Street
London
WC1E 7HT
United Kingdom

I am a research assistant and doctoral student in the Innovative Methods and Metrics for Agriculture and Nutrition Actions (IMMANA) programme, within the Nutrition Group at LSHTM. My research spans various aspects of food systems, nutrition and health. My doctoral project is modelling human health impacts of global plastic waste reduction strategies and circular economy transitions.


I completed my MSc in Nutrition for Global Health at LSHTM in 2018 and have a BA in Modern Languages (French and Spanish) from the University of Bristol.

Affiliations

Department of Population Health
Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health

Centres

Centre on Climate Change and Planetary Health

Teaching

I am co-organiser and teach on the Maternal and Child Nutrition core module for the Nutrition for Global Health MSc at LSHTM.

Research

My doctoral research project explores the effect of plastic waste reduction strategies, including circular economy approaches, on global health outcomes, considering environmental health pathways including climate change, air pollution and toxicity.

I have worked on large-scale evidence syntheses for 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.

Research Area
Climate change
Health outcomes
Public health
Science policy
Systematic reviews
Agriculture
Environmental Health
Food
Global Health
International comparisons
Modelling
Discipline
Nutrition
Region
World

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
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
Environmental Research
A rapid evidence assessment of UK citizen and industry understandings of sustainability
Reynolds C; Moore S; Denton P; Jones R; Abdy Collins C; Droulers C; Oakden L; Hegarty R; Snell J; Chalmers H
2022
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
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
2022
Nature Communications
Global Mental Health and Nutrition: Moving Toward a Convergent Research Agenda.
Sparling TM; Cheng B; Deeney M; Santoso MV; Pfeiffer E; Emerson JA; Amadi FM; Mitu K; Corvalan C; Verdeli H
2021
Frontiers in Public Health
A systematic scoping review of environmental, food security and health impacts of food system plastics.
Yates J; Deeney M; Rolker HB; White H; Kalamatianou S; Kadiyala S
2021
Nature Food
Effects of plastics in the food system on human health, food security, and the environment: a systematic scoping review
Yates J; Deeney M; Rolker HB; White H; Kalamatianou S; Kadiyala S
2021
The Lancet Planetary Health
Trust and responsibility in food systems transformation. Engaging with Big Food: marriage or mirage?
Yates J; Gillespie S; Savona N; Deeney M; Kadiyala S
2021
BMJ GLOBAL HEALTH
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