Professor Mike Rayner
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Oxford Martin School
Principal Investigator, Oxford Martin Programme on the Future of Food
Mike Rayner
BA, DPhil
Professor of Population Health
Mike Rayner is a Professor of Population Health at Oxford Population Health.
Mike is also Chair of Sustain: the alliance for better food and farming in the UK. He is Chair of the Nutrition Expert Group for the European Heart Network. He is an ordained priest in the Church of England.
Mike's research has been on all aspects of the prevention of NCDs with a focus on population based interventions to promote healthier eating such as improved food labelling, restrictions on the marketing of foods, and health-related food taxes such as taxes on sugary drinks. He has a particular interest in nutrient profiling.
Formerly he was Director of the Centre on Population Approaches for Non-Communicable Disease Prevention, based in the department, which was a World Health Organization Collaborating Centre from 2013- 2021. The centre carried out research and training related to the prevention of non-communicable diseases (NCDs).