Ben recently submitted his PhD thesis at Loughborough University in the School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences. He worked on an invited review for the World Health Organisation looking at the impact of greater consumption of unhealthy foods and beverages in children under 10 years on risk of malnutrition and diet related noncommunicable diseases. Since submitting his thesis Ben’s research focus has continued in a similar stead working on a review on physical activity and nutrition in healthy adolescents.
Ben holds a BSc in Sport and Exercise Science from Loughborough University.
Projects
2023
Technical assistance on the impact of the crisis on diets in Asia and the Pacific for WFP
2022-2023
Assistance to UNICEF for the development of Maternal Nutrition costed technical operational guidelines and standard operating procedures in Bangladesh
2022-2023
Assistance to UNICEF to conduct a research on the food environment factors affecting young children, adolescents, and mothers’ diets in Fiji
2022
Assistance to UNICEF to conduct a review of policies and programmes in prevention and management of all forms of malnutrition across all life stages in 14 Pacific Island Countries
2021-2022
Technical assistance for nutrition sensitive intervention in the workplace in Myanmar for Sequa
