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rachel-loopstra

Dr Rachel Loopstra

Affiliate Lecturer in Nutrition

Research interests

  • Nutrition

Biography

I have now moved to the University of Liverpool, but still have an affiliate position with King's College London.

My research focuses on household food insecurity and food bank use in high-income countries. Specific projects involve novel data collected from households using food banks, and secondary data analyses of large data sets to explore the impact of poverty and social policies on food insecurity and nutrition.

    Research

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    Population Health & Nutrition Research Group

    We are a multidisciplinary team with a range of observational and interventional studies in the UK, Africa and Latin America Caribbean. Key interests relate to community-based participatory methods and systems perspectives to engage with the complex socio-cultural contexts that drive disparities in health and access to health care, community engagement, co-design and ethnic inequalities in health.

    News

    Researchers receive grant to monitor responses to COVID-19 food insecurity crisis

    A team of researchers, led by Dr Rachel Loopstra from the School of Life Course Sciences, along with colleagues at the University of Sheffield, have been...

    Food insecurity

    New PhD studentship on mental health in the UK now available

    King's Centre for Society & Mental Health announces a new PhD studentship on 'Welfare reform, poverty, food bank use and mental health in the UK'.

    Student working at a laptop

    Events

    16Novfood bank 780x450

    What is the role of food banks among people experiencing food insecurity in the UK?

    Seminar with Dr Rachel Loopstra

    Please note: this event has passed.

      Research

      pophealthhero
      Population Health & Nutrition Research Group

      We are a multidisciplinary team with a range of observational and interventional studies in the UK, Africa and Latin America Caribbean. Key interests relate to community-based participatory methods and systems perspectives to engage with the complex socio-cultural contexts that drive disparities in health and access to health care, community engagement, co-design and ethnic inequalities in health.

      News

      Researchers receive grant to monitor responses to COVID-19 food insecurity crisis

      A team of researchers, led by Dr Rachel Loopstra from the School of Life Course Sciences, along with colleagues at the University of Sheffield, have been...

      Food insecurity

      New PhD studentship on mental health in the UK now available

      King's Centre for Society & Mental Health announces a new PhD studentship on 'Welfare reform, poverty, food bank use and mental health in the UK'.

      Student working at a laptop

      Events

      16Novfood bank 780x450

      What is the role of food banks among people experiencing food insecurity in the UK?

      Seminar with Dr Rachel Loopstra

      Please note: this event has passed.