Miss Megan Deeney
Research Fellow
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Keppel Street
London
WC1E 7HT
United Kingdom
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.
I work at the intersection of evironmental and public health research, and at the science-policy interface of plastics pollution and planetary health. My doctoral research explores the effect of greenhouse gas emissions, air pollutants and chemicals released across plastics life cycles on global human health, over time and under different policy scenarios. I work with Life Cycle Assessment and other mass balance models for estimating the impacts of chemical toxicity on human health. I have recently completed a research project comprising a global screening and health impact assessment of endocrine disrupting chemicals present in building materials, household products, children's toys, personal care products and food packaging.
I have co-led large-scale evidence syntheses, including evidence and gap maps, scoping reviews and systematic reviews with quantitative meta-anlyses. This includes systheses across diverse themes such as (1) plastics used throughout food systems and their effects on the environment, food security and human health, (2) the environmental and health effects of circular economies of food system plastics, and (3) on the links between food systems, food and nutrition security and mental health.
I completed my Master's degree in Nutrition for Global Health at LSHTM in 2018.
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I am interested in research that bridges disciplines to better understand the interconnections between the natural environment, anthropogenic drivers of environmental degradation, and human health and wellbeing. In particular, I am interested in exploring ways in which we can redirect or reimagine safer and more sustainable global systems that protect and promote the health and wellbeing of people and planet.
Generating and translating research for policy is a central focus of my work at the science-policy interface and I am deeply interested in exploring strategies for strengthening communiation and collaboraion in this space.