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Dr. Mehroosh Tak is a Senior Lecturer in Agribusiness at the Royal Veterinary College (RVC), based at the Camden campus within the Department of Pathobiology and Population Sciences. She co-leads RVC's participation in the Centre for Doctoral Training on UK Food Systems and contributes to the Sustainable Food Systems research group and Veterinary Epidemiology, Economics and Public Health research centre.
Her research centers on structural causes of food systems change in low and middle-income countries, utilizing development economics and political economy approaches. Key interests include:
- Economics of agricultural policies and nutrition-sensitive programmes
- Public expenditure analysis for dietary diversification
- Antimicrobial usage in livestock production systems
- Power asymmetries in food system governance
- Systems approaches to agriculture-nutrition linkages
Analysis of her 13 publications (2014-2020) reveals consistent focus on Indian dietary patterns, agricultural policy impacts, and food system financing. Her work bridges economics, public health, and environmental sustainability through interdisciplinary methods including micro-econometrics and political economy analysis.
Dr. Tak has not been mentioned to have received any scientific awards in the provided text.
She actively supervises MSc and PhD projects on food systems economics while leading multiple research initiatives including UK National Food Strategy media analysis, broiler welfare transition studies, and the Critical Research on Industrial Livestock Systems (CRILS) Network examining corporate concentration in poultry industries. Her grant portfolio includes UKRI GCRF projects on sustainable beef production and One Health poultry systems.
Dr. Tak collaborates with the Sustainable Food Systems research group, IRLFS programme, and Veterinary Epidemiology research centre, focusing on transdisciplinary solutions for sustainable livestock systems in both Global North and South contexts.
