Rebecca Pradeilles

Dr. Rebecca Pradeilles serves as a Research Fellow at the Institute for Global Sustainable Development, University of Sheffield, based at the Interdisciplinary Centre of the Social Sciences (ICOSS). Previously, she joined the Public Health section of the School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR) in January 2015 as a Lecturer in Public Health.

Her academic background includes:

• Dietician training
• MSc in Nutrition applied to low-and middle-income countries
• MSc in Epidemiology and Public Health
• PhD in Public Health from Loughborough University focusing on socio-economic influences on diet and nutritional status in urban South African adolescents

Dr. Pradeilles' research centers on socio-economic inequalities in health, particularly obesity-related non-communicable diseases in African populations. She investigates socio-economic factors at neighbourhood and household levels affecting nutrition and obesity across African adolescents and adults. Her work encompasses the nutrition transition in low- and middle-income countries, diet assessment methodologies (quantitative and qualitative), and obesity policy development.

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She is affiliated with the Institute for Global Sustainable Development and operates from the Interdisciplinary Centre of the Social Sciences (ICOSS) at the University of Sheffield.