Chair, Race Equality and Diversity forum

Member, Nutrition Society

Member, Society for Social Medicine

Member, European Public Health Association

Member, Association for Nutrition

Associate Member, International Centre for Life course Studies in Society & Health

Member, Black British Academics

Weight misperception and psychological symptoms from adolescence to young adulthood: longitudinal study of an ethnically diverse UK cohort

Improved prediction equations for estimating height in adults from ethnically diverse backgrounds

Minority men's engagement with health promotion (Boyz2men): an exploratory cross-sectional study

Nutrient Composition of Popularly Consumed African and Caribbean Foods in The UK

Fruit and vegetable consumption and mental health across adolescence: evidence from a diverse urban British cohort study

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Dr Maria Maynard is Reader in Public Health Nutrition in the Nutrition and Dietetics Group, School of Clinical and Applied Sciences at Leeds Beckett University. She leads the Migrant Health Research group and the Inequalities theme of the Applied Obesity Research Centre. Her expertise is in the health and diets of minority ethnic and migrant communities - exploring aspects such as nutrition-related inequalities, obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. She works with those who are living with multiple levels of deprivation to understand how to address better health outcomes that prioritise their own perspectives, cultures, traditions and food preferences. She has undertaken work with the Black Health Initiative, the Leeds West Indian Centre Charitable Trust, Leeds City Council and Public Health England. 

Maria co-founded and co-managed the DASH longitudinal study of the health of young people from diverse ethnic groups in London. She works internationally as the UK lead of a multidisciplinary and multi-agency network funded by the Global Challenges Research Fund conducting projects addressing malnutrition, urban renewal and sustainable livelihoods among vulnerable women and their children in Ghana and Nigeria. Maria is also on the Editorial Board of the the journal BMC Public Health.

Communities

Obesity

Nutrition

Migrant Health

Diet and Inequality

Healthy Living

Deprivation

Leeds Beckett University Faculty Profile

ResearchGate Profile

Building international collaborations: nutritional status and interventions

Psychosocial determinants and health in young adults. Ethnicity, migration and health inequalities: data opportunities and gaps

Views on risk, prevention and management of type 2 diabetes among UK Black Caribbeans in the FOODEY study

Ethnicity and Health in the FOODEY, DASH, & DEAL studies: current approaches and future directions

Migrant Health Research Group: the FOODEY study

Reader in Public Health Nutrition

Dr Maria Maynard’s research focuses on health inequalities. She talks about the factors that affect health and those groups that suffer poorer health because of those factors.

Transforming health inequality | Dr Maria Maynard

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