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Dr Marco Springmann is a Senior Researcher in Environment and Health at the Environmental Change Institute (ECI) at the University of Oxford and a Professor in Climate Change, Food Systems and Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). He leads the Environment and Health group at ECI and is Co-Director of the Centre on Climate Change and Planetary Health at LSHTM.

Marco is interested in the health, environmental, and economic dimensions of the global food systems. The research questions he has worked on include what impacts climate change could have on diets and diet-related mortality; what impacts diets and dietary change have on climate change, environmental resource use, nutrition, and health; how our food system would need to change to stay within global environmental limits; and what policy measures could contribute to such a change.

Marco joined the ECI in 2022, and also started his professorship at LSHTM in that year. Previously, he was a Senior Researcher on Environmental Sustainability and Public Health at the University of Oxford's Nuffield Department of Population Health (2017-2022), and a researcher and James Martin Fellow of the Oxford Martin Programme on the Future of Food (2013-2016).

Marco holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Oldenburg (Germany), a MSc in Sustainability from the University of Leeds (UK), and a MS in Physics from Stony Brook University (USA). He maintains international research collaborations and has conducted research placements at institutes in the USA, Australia, China, and Germany.

His research has been published in leading journals, including Nature, Science, The Lancet, the BMJ, PNAS, and others. In addition, he has contributed to high-level reports, including those of the EAT-Lancet Commission on Healthy Diets from Sustainable Food Systems, the Global Panel on Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition, and the Global Nutrition Report.

 

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Romanello, M., Napoli, C., Green, C., Kennard, H., Lampard, P., Scamman, D., Walawender, M., Ali, Z., Ameli, N., Ayeb-Karlsson, S., Beggs, P., Belesova, K., Berrang Ford, L., Bowen, K., Cai, W., Callaghan, M., Campbell-Lendrum, D., Chambers, J., Cross, T., van Daalen, K., Dalin, C., Dasandi, N., Dasgupta, S., Davies, M., Dominguez-Salas, P., Dubrow, R., Ebi, K., Eckelman, M., Ekins, P., Freyberg, C., Gasparyan, O., Gordon-Strachan, G., Graham, H., Gunther, S., Hamilton, I., Hang, Y., Hänninen, R., Hartinger, S., He, K., Heidecke, J., Hess, J., Hsu, S.-C., Jamart, L., Jankin, S., Jay, O., Kelman, I., Kiesewetter, G., Kinney, P., Kniveton, D., Kouznetsov, R., Larosa, F., Lee, J., Lemke, B., Liu, Y., Liu, Z., Lott, M., Lotto Batista, M., Lowe, R., Odhiambo Sewe, M., Martinez-Urtaza, J., Maslin, M., McAllister, L., McMichael, C., Mi, Z., Milner, J., Minor, K., Minx, J., Mohajeri, N., Momen, N., Moradi-Lakeh, M., Morrissey, K., Munzert, S., Murray, K., Neville, T., Nilsson, M., Obradovich, N., O’Hare, M., Oliveira, C., Oreszczyn, T., Otto, M., Owfi, F., Pearman, O., Pega, F., Pershing, A., Rabbaniha, M., Rickman, J., Robinson, E., Rocklöv, J., Salas, R., Semenza, J., Sherman, J., Shumake-Guillemot, J., Silbert, G., Sofiev, M., Springmann, M., Stowell, J., Tabatabaei, M., Taylor, J., Thompson, R., Tonne, C., Treskova, M., Trinanes, J., Wagner, F., Warnecke, L., Whitcombe, H., Winning, M., Wyns, A., Yglesias-González, M., Zhang, S., Zhang, Y., Zhu, Q., Gong, P., Montgomery, H. and Costello, A. (2023) “The 2023 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: the imperative for a health-centred response in a world facing irreversible harms.”, Lancet (London, England), 402(10419), pp. 2346–2394.
Springmann, M., Kennard, H., Dalin, C. and Freund, F. (2023) “International food trade contributes to dietary risks and mortality at global, regional and national levels.”, Nature food, 4(10), pp. 886–893.
Springmann, M., Van Dingenen, R., Vandyck, T., Latka, C., Witzke, P. and Leip, A. (2023) “The global and regional air quality impacts of dietary change.”, Nature communications, 14(1), p. 6227.
Scarborough, P., Clark, M., Cobiac, L., Papier, K., Knuppel, A., Lynch, J., Harrington, R., Key, T. and Springmann, M. (2023) “Vegans, vegetarians, fish-eaters and meat-eaters in the UK show discrepant environmental impacts.”, Nature food, 4(7), pp. 565–574.
Springmann, M. (2023) “Eating a nutritionally adequate diet is possible without wrecking long-term health, the planet, or the pocket.”, The Lancet. Planetary health, 7(7), p. e544.
Crona, B., Wassénius, E., Jonell, M., Koehn, J., Short, R., Tigchelaar, M., Daw, T., Golden, C., Gephart, J., Allison, E., Bush, S., Cao, L., Cheung, W., DeClerck, F., Fanzo, J., Gelcich, S., Kishore, A., Halpern, B., Hicks, C., Leape, J., Little, D., Micheli, F., Naylor, R., Phillips, M., Selig, E., Springmann, M., Sumaila, U., Troell, M., Thilsted, S. and Wabnitz, C. (2023) “Four ways blue foods can help achieve food system ambitions across nations.”, Nature, 616(7955), pp. 104–112.
Clark, M., Springmann, M., Rayner, M., Scarborough, P., Hill, J., Tilman, D., Macdiarmid, J., Fanzo, J., Bandy, L. and Harrington, R. (2023) “Reply to Muzzioli et al.: Communicating nutrition and environmental information to food system stakeholders.”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 120(17), p. e2302165120.
Smith, M., Mueller, N., Springmann, M., Sulser, T., Garibaldi, L., Gerber, J., Wiebe, K. and Myers, S. (2022) “Pollinator Deficits, Food Consumption, and Consequences for Human Health: A Modeling Study.”, Environmental health perspectives, 130(12), p. 127003.
Romanello, M., Di Napoli, C., Drummond, P., Green, C., Kennard, H., Lampard, P., Scamman, D., Arnell, N., Ayeb-Karlsson, S., Ford, L., Belesova, K., Bowen, K., Cai, W., Callaghan, M., Campbell-Lendrum, D., Chambers, J., van Daalen, K., Dalin, C., Dasandi, N., Dasgupta, S., Davies, M., Dominguez-Salas, P., Dubrow, R., Ebi, K., Eckelman, M., Ekins, P., Escobar, L., Georgeson, L., Graham, H., Gunther, S., Hamilton, I., Hang, Y., Hänninen, R., Hartinger, S., He, K., Hess, J., Hsu, S.-C., Jankin, S., Jamart, L., Jay, O., Kelman, I., Kiesewetter, G., Kinney, P., Kjellstrom, T., Kniveton, D., Lee, J., Lemke, B., Liu, Y., Liu, Z., Lott, M., Batista, M., Lowe, R., MacGuire, F., Sewe, M., Martinez-Urtaza, J., Maslin, M., McAllister, L., McGushin, A., McMichael, C., Mi, Z., Milner, J., Minor, K., Minx, J., Mohajeri, N., Moradi-Lakeh, M., Morrissey, K., Munzert, S., Murray, K., Neville, T., Nilsson, M., Obradovich, N., O’Hare, M., Oreszczyn, T., Otto, M., Owfi, F., Pearman, O., Rabbaniha, M., Robinson, E., Rocklöv, J., Salas, R., Semenza, J., Sherman, J., Shi, L., Shumake-Guillemot, J., Silbert, G., Sofiev, M., Springmann, M., Stowell, J., Tabatabaei, M., Taylor, J., Triñanes, J., Wagner, F., Wilkinson, P., Winning, M., Yglesias-González, M., Zhang, S., Gong, P., Montgomery, H. and Costello, A. (2022) “The 2022 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: health at the mercy of fossil fuels.”, Lancet (London, England), 400(10363), pp. 1619–1654.
van Daalen, K., Romanello, M., Rocklöv, J., Semenza, J., Tonne, C., Markandya, A., Dasandi, N., Jankin, S., Achebak, H., Ballester, J., Bechara, H., Callaghan, M., Chambers, J., Dasgupta, S., Drummond, P., Farooq, Z., Gasparyan, O., Gonzalez-Reviriego, N., Hamilton, I., Hänninen, R., Kazmierczak, A., Kendrovski, V., Kennard, H., Kiesewetter, G., Lloyd, S., Lotto Batista, M., Martinez-Urtaza, J., Milà, C., Minx, J., Nieuwenhuijsen, M., Palamarchuk, J., Quijal-Zamorano, M., Robinson, E., Scamman, D., Schmoll, O., Sewe, M., Sjödin, H., Sofiev, M., Solaraju-Murali, B., Springmann, M., Triñanes, J., Anto, J., Nilsson, M. and Lowe, R. (2022) “The 2022 Europe report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: towards a climate resilient future.”, The Lancet. Public health, 7(11), pp. e942 - e965.