Pauline Scheelbeek is an Assistant Professor in nutritional and environmental epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and the Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre on Climate Change, Health and Sustainable Development.
Pauline’s research focusses on discovering healthy, sustainable, resilient and realistic solutions that will accelerate transformational food system change, especially in the Global North. Currently she leads the Sustainable and Healthy Diets in Europe (SHEADE) project, co-leads the multicountry Sustainable and Health Food Systems (SHEFS) project in the UK, India and South Africa as well as the Food system Adaptations in Changing Environments in Africa (FACE-Africa) project in the Gambia.
Pauline is an active STEM ambassador and frequently organises public engagement activities for school aged children in the UK and sub-Saharan Africa around environment, nutrition and health issues.