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Prof Rosie Green

Professor

United Kingdom

I am a Professor of Environment, Food and Health at LSHTM. I trained as an epidemiologist, and wrote my PhD thesis on the long-term health consequences of the wartime famine in Guernsey. I joined LSHTM in 2011 to study the relationships between diets, sustainability and health, and have since built a portfolio of research at the intersection of environmental change and health.

I am the head of the Planetary Health Group in the Department of Population Health and am also active in the Nutrition Group. I am a Co-Director of the LSHTM Centre on Climate Change and Planetary Health.

Affiliations

Department of Population Health
Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health

Centres

Centre on Climate Change and Planetary Health

Teaching

I am a Module Organiser of Planetary Health in Practice for the MSc in Climate Change and Planetary Health, and I also supervise MSc students across a number of the School's MSc courses.

Research

My research focuses on the links between diets, the environment and human health, and I also have an interest in developing new methods and models to study these relationships.

I currently work on the Sustainable and Healthy Food Systems (SHEFS) programme, funded by the Wellcome Trust Our Planet Our Health programme to explore relationships between food systems, the environment and health in India, South Africa and the UK. I also work on the GCRF South Asia Nitrogen Hub, researching links between nitrogen flows and human health through food, water and air pollution, the AMPHoRA project researching actions to reduce air pollution from agriculture in the UK through dietary change, and the FACE-Africa project exploring agricultural adaptations to climate change in The Gambia.

I am the co-PI (with Professor Andy Haines) of the Lancet Pathfinder Commission, which aims to find pathways to a healthy zero-carbon future and communicate them to national and regional decision-makers around the world. In 2020 I was a member of the scientific panel for the UK Citizens Assembly on Climate Change.
Research Area
Agriculture
Climate change
Environment
Food
Global Health
Modelling
Public health
Social and structural determinants of health
Statistical methods
Systematic reviews
Epidemiology
Nutrition
Disease and Health Conditions
Cancer
Diabetes
Malnutrition
Non-communicable diseases
Obesity
Chronic diseases
Cardiovascular diseases
Country
South Africa
United Kingdom
Kenya
Gambia
Region
Euro area
European Union
OECD members
South Asia
Sub-Saharan Africa (all income levels)
World

Selected Publications

Health impacts and environmental footprints of diets that meet the Eatwell Guide recommendations: analyses of multiple UK studies.
SCHEELBEEK, P; GREEN, R; Papier, K; Knuppel, A; ALAE-CAREW, C; Balkwill, A; Key, TJ; Beral, V; DANGOUR, AD;
2020
BMJ open
Greenhouse gas emissions and water footprints of typical dietary patterns in India.
GREEN, RF; JOY, EJ M; HARRIS, F; Agrawal, S; ALEKSANDROWICZ, L; Hillier, J; Macdiarmid, JI; MILNER, J; Vetter, SH; Smith, P; HAINES, A; DANGOUR, AD;
2018
The Science of the total environment
Global dietary quality, undernutrition and non-communicable disease: a longitudinal modelling study.
GREEN, R; SUTHERLAND, J; DANGOUR, AD; Shankar, B; Webb, P;
2016
BMJ open
Health effects of adopting low greenhouse gas emission diets in the UK.
MILNER, J; GREEN, R; DANGOUR, AD; HAINES, A; CHALABI, Z; Spadaro, J; Markandya, A; WILKINSON, P;
2015
BMJ open
The potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the UK through healthy and realistic dietary change
GREEN, R; MILNER, J; DANGOUR, AD; HAINES, A; CHALABI, Z; Markandya, A; Spadaro, J; WILKINSON, P;
2015
Climatic change
Health implications of adopting nutritious, low-carbon diets in the U.K.
GREEN, R; MILNER, J; DANGOUR, AD; HAINES, A; CHALABI, Z; Markandya, A; Spadaro, J; WILKINSON, P;
2014
Experimental Biology
Potential ‘co-benefits’ for health and greenhouse gas emissions of adopting acceptable healthy diets in the UK
MILNER, J; GREEN, R; DANGOUR, AD; HAINES, A; CHALABI, Z; Markandya, A; Spadaro, J; WILKINSON, P;
2014
International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE) Conference
The effect of rising food prices on food consumption: systematic review with meta-regression.
GREEN, R; CORNELSEN, L; DANGOUR, AD; Turner, R; Shankar, B; Mazzocchi, M; SMITH, RD;
2013
BMJ (Clinical research ed)
The Dublin Declaration fails to recognize the need to reduce industrial animal agriculture.
Bryant, C; Aiking, H; Alessandrini, R; Behrens, P; Creutzig, F; Eshel, G; GREEN, R; Hutchings, N; Leip, A; Milo, R; Smith, P; Van Zanten, H;
2024
Nature food
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