Christina Vogel
Christina is Director of the Centre for Food Policy at City St George’s, University of London, and a registered nutritionist with 20 years’ experience in public health across Australia and Europe. Her work adopts a food systems approach and investigates the wider determinants of diet.
Christina's research aims to inform the implementation and evaluation of food-related policies and interventions. Community participation and public voices are integral to her research activities and development of policy recommendations to ensure they are appropriate and help shape healthier, fairer, more sustainable and more resilient food systems. She leads and co investigates NIHR and UKRI grants, including evaluations of the UK’s Food (Promotions and Placement) legislation and Healthy Start; systems studies of convenience retail and the chicken supply chain; and work on nature based solutions for agriculture and the role of professional cookery in food system transformations.
She advises governments on retail food environment policies across the UK and internationally and contributes to the ATNi expert group and the UN and WHO’s HDSFS coalition. She is also a Trustee at the food advocacy group, Sustain.
Christina supervises a range of PhD students covering topics from optimising minimally processed school food to the role of business rates in food system change. She teaches on the Food Policy MSc course at City St George’s University of London, leading the module on ‘Research Methods in Food Policy’.
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