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Professor Marco Springmann

PhD MSc MA

Professor
in Climate Change, Food Systems and Health

LSHTM
Keppel Street
London
WC1E 7HT
United Kingdom

Tel.
07460202512

Marco joined the LSHTM in 2022 as Professor in Climate Change, Food Systems and Health, and is Co-Director of the Centre on Climate Change and Planetary Health. He holds a co-affiliation as Senior Researcher on Environment and Health with the Evironmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford.

Marco has research experience in the medical, social, and natural sciences. He holds a PhD in (Environmental) Economics from the University of Oldenburg (Germany), a Master's degree in Sustainability from the University of Leeds (UK), and a Master's degree in Physics from Stony Brook University (NY, USA). From 2013-2022, he conducted research on environmental sustainability and public health at the University of Oxford's Nuffield Department of Population Health.

Affiliations

Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health
Department of Population Health

Centres

Centre on Climate Change and Planetary Health

Research

Marco conducts multi-disciplinary research that connects food systems, climate change, and public health. His research themes include:

  • Impacts of climate change on food systems and health;
  • Impacts of food systems on health, the environment, and livelihoods;
  • Policy options to support transitions towards healthy and sustainable food systems.

His resarch has been published in leading journals, including Nature, Science, The Lancet, the BMJ, PNAS, and others. In addition, he has contributed to high-level reports, including those of the EAT-Lancet Commission on Healthy Diets from Sustainable Food Systems, the Global Panel on Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition, and the Global Nutrition Report.

Research Area
Climate change
Environment
Public health
Agriculture
Food
Discipline
Mathematical modelling
Region
World

Selected Publications

Reply to Muzzioli et al.: Communicating nutrition and environmental information to food system stakeholders.
Clark M; Springmann M; Rayner M; Scarborough P; Hill J; Tilman D; Macdiarmid JI; Fanzo J; Bandy L; Harrington RA
2023
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Four ways blue foods can help achieve food system ambitions across nations.
Crona BI; Wassénius E; Jonell M; Koehn JZ; Short R; Tigchelaar M; Daw TM; Golden CD; Gephart JA; Allison EH
2023
Nature
Estimating the environmental impacts of 57,000 food products.
Clark M; Springmann M; Rayner M; Scarborough P; Hill J; Tilman D; Macdiarmid JI; Fanzo J; Bandy L; Harrington RA
2022
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Toward Optimal Meat Pricing: Is It Time to Tax Meat Consumption?
Funke F; Mattauch L; Bijgaart IVD; Godfray HCJ; Hepburn C; Klenert D; Springmann M; Treich N
2022
Review of Environmental Economics and Policy
We need a food system transformation—In the face of the Russia-Ukraine war, now more than ever
Pörtner LM; Lambrecht N; Springmann M; Bodirsky BL; Gaupp F; Freund F; Lotze-Campen H; Gabrysch S
2022
One Earth
The 2022 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: health at the mercy of fossil fuels.
Romanello M; Di Napoli C; Drummond P; Green C; Kennard H; Lampard P; Scamman D; Arnell N; Ayeb-Karlsson S; Ford LB
2022
Lancet (London, England)
Pollinator Deficits, Food Consumption, and Consequences for Human Health: A Modeling Study.
Smith MR; Mueller ND; Springmann M; Sulser TB; Garibaldi LA; Gerber J; Wiebe K; Myers SS
2022
Environmental health perspectives
The 2022 Europe report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: towards a climate resilient future.
van Daalen KR; Romanello M; Rocklöv J; Semenza JC; Tonne C; Markandya A; Dasandi N; Jankin S; Achebak H; Ballester J
2022
The Lancet. Public health
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