Mike Rayner

Mike Rayner is a Professor of Population Health at the Nuffield Department of Population Health at the University of Oxford.

He is also Chair of Sustain: the alliance for better food and farming in the UK, Chair of the Nutrition Expert Group for the European Heart Network and an ordained priest in the Church of England.

Professor Rayner’s research has been on all aspects of the prevention of noncommunicable diseases with a focus on population-based interventions to promote healthier eating such as improved food labelling, restrictions on the marketing of foods, and health-related food taxes such as taxes on sugary drinks. He has a particular interest in nutrient profiling, which is the science of classifying or ranking foods according to their nutritional composition for reasons related to preventing disease and promoting health.

Formerly he was Director of the Centre on Population Approaches for Non-Communicable Disease Prevention, based in the Nuffield Department of Population Health, which was a WHO Collaborating Centre from 2013- 2021.