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Louisa Ells
School of Clinical and Applied Sciences, Leeds Beckett University
Louisa is a registered public health nutritionist with a specialist interest in multi-disciplinary, cross-sector applied obesity research. Her research focuses on obesity related public health, service evaluation, inequalities and e-health, delivered using systematic reviewing, mixed method, coproduction and person-centred approaches. (source: LBU Profile)
Type of member: Regular (since 2021)
Email Address: L.Ells@leedsbeckett.ac.uk
Website Address: https://www.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/staff/professor-louisa-ells/
Current research interests
Louisa's research portfolio is orientated around delivering responsive, practical research solutions that result in real world impact. Her previous research includes:
- Undertaking a number of weight management service evaluations which have informed practice development and commissioning decisions
- Undertaking two mixed method reviews of behaviour changes resulting from marketing and fiscal strategies targeted at high sugar products, that underpinned the PHE sugar reduction report: from evidence to action, and subsequent changes to marketing and fiscal regulation
- Leading a series of Cochrane reviews examining treatment interventions for child and adolescent overweight and obesity which helped to inform ongoing work by the World Health Organization on the management of children and adolescents with overweight and obesity. This is in addition to supporting a number of Public Health England outputs such as the Guide to Delivering and Commissioning Tier 2 Weight Management Services, the standard evaluation framework for weight management interventions, guidance on family weight management, a review of the barriers and facilitators to weight management in families at high risk of developing excess weight, and a report examining weight management services during the COVID-19 pandemic
(source: LBU Profile)
profile updated: 06/16/2021