Examples of recent projects include:

• Support on food security for children and young people in Newham as part of a Local Government Association and Health Foundation initiative.
• Family Food Experience Study examining how local authorities can improve the efficiency and effectiveness of interventions to address inequality in childhood obesity. In this NIHR funded research, Natalie was co-investigator and system mapping workstream lead.
• Co-Create: Confronting Obesity which takes a co-production approach to policy development with young people. Natalie was the systems workstream lead for this European Commission-funded project.
• Working with a London borough on their strategies for supporting people with ‘no recourse to public funds’.

Other recent topics have included: youth knife-crime in South London; the role of businesses in dietary health; gender-based school violence in Malawi; inequalities in adolescent mental health; and how multi-national companies work to shape emergency food assistance in Lebanon.

Natalie has also had an extensive consultancy, media and broadcast work in relation to food and nutrition. This includes presenting a series on BBC3, Discovery Health & Community Channel, ‘expert’ live television and radio, BBC Breakfast, Woman’s Hour; articles in Sunday Times, Evening Standard etc.

Natalie has a BA in Social Anthropology and Arabic, an MA in Medical Anthropology, an MPhil in Public Health and a PhD in Public Health Policy. She is co-author on the much-cited, award-winning Lancet paper ‘Why we need a complex systems model of evidence for public health’. Natalie is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the UK Prevention Research Partnership, a £50 million, multi-funder initiative that supports systems research into prevention of non-communicable diseases.