Dr. Jessica Renzella

Biography

Jessica Renzella is a DPhil researcher at the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences at the University of Oxford. Her research primarily focuses on population approaches to noncommunicable disease prevention, public health policymaking, and promoting healthy sustainable diets. Renzella's ongoing projects include the SALIENT project, which evaluates healthy sustainable food trials in retail settings, the SHIFT project aimed at developing a toolkit to reduce meat consumption in the UK by 30% by 2032, and the COPPER project that designs food subsidy and tax scenarios for public policymakers. She has also been involved in a co-production project in Newham aimed at improving diets using systems mapping approaches. Renzella completed her DPhil in August 2021, with a thesis that explored context-specific nutrition research, interventions, and policies in Sri Lanka. Her academic journey includes earning a Master of Public Health and a Bachelor of Biomedicine from the University of Melbourne in Australia, and she is enthusiastic about collaborating with prospective DPhil students and researchers.

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