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Dr Hannah Forde

Research Member of Common Room

Senior Researcher

Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences

Hannah is a Senior Researcher in the Sustainable Healthy Food Group, which is part of the Health Behaviours Team at the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences. Her research focusses on ways to make the commercial food system healthier, fairer, and more environmentally sustainable. She is particularly interested in methods to involve citizens in food system governance.

In April 2025, Hannah started a Wellcome Trust Early Career Award hosted at the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, Amsterdam University Medical Centre and Harvard University. Over five years, she is exploring the development of and public support for healthy and planet-friendly food marketing policies. Alongside this, Hannah is involved in research into other interventions that could improve the food system, such as food subsidies and taxes, and she co-convenes and lectures on the BA Human Sciences Food Systems, Health, and Environment course. Hannah currently holds a part-time Visiting Research Fellow position in the School for Policy Studies at the University of Bristol.

Hannah holds an undergraduate degree in Economics and Statistics from the University of St Andrews, a Master’s degree in Nutrition, Physical Activity and Public Health from the University of Bristol, and PhD in Epidemiology from the MRC Epidemiology Unit at the University of Cambridge.