Dr. Asha Kaur

Biography

Asha Kaur is a Senior Researcher at the University of Oxford's Medical Sciences Division, focusing on population diets and their health impacts. Her research interests encompass food prices, labeling, nutrient profiling, and population-level health modeling. Asha leads the Nuffield Department of Population Health (NDPH) Intermediate Fellowship titled 'TransforMMMD,' which aims to transform UK population dietary advice by measuring the health, cost, and environmental impacts of various diets. She has previously been awarded the NDPH Early Career Fellowship to investigate the impact of price promotions on dietary choices and health outcomes. Furthermore, Asha serves as the Work Package leader of the COPPER project, focusing on collaborating with public policymakers to co-design tax subsidy scenarios for estimating the health, economic, and environmental impacts of dietary changes. Her DPhil thesis was centered around measuring the prevalence of nutritional quality in foods that carry health claims, alongside modeling the potential health impact of regulatory scenarios. Asha graduated with a BSc in Clinical Psychology from the University of Kent in 2005 and joined the University of Oxford in 2006, where she worked as a Research Assistant in the Health Services Research Unit, specializing in systematic reviews related to forensic mental health outcomes.

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