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Overview

Harry Rutter is affiliated with the University of Bath in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to public health research, particularly in the areas of obesity, physical activity, diet, and health policy implementation. Their work spans several interconnected topics within global public health and community health development.

The scientist's recent publications include:

  • Scientific consensus on the COVID-19 pandemic: we need to act now (2020, The Lancet)
  • Evaluation of public health interventions from a complex systems perspective: A research methods review (2021, Social Science & Medicine)
  • Physical Activity, Screen Time, and Sleep Duration of Children Aged 6-9 Years in 25 Countries: An Analysis within the WHO European Childhood Obesity Surveillance Initiative (COSI) 2015-2017 (2020, Obesity Facts)
  • Thinness, overweight, and obesity in 6- to 9-year-old children from 36 countries: The World Health Organization European Childhood Obesity Surveillance Initiative-COSI 2015-2017 (2021, Obesity Reviews)
  • Dark Nudges and Sludge in Big Alcohol: Behavioral Economics, Cognitive Biases, and Alcohol Industry Corporate Social Responsibility (2020, Milbank Quarterly)

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Martin White
  • Jean Adams
  • Cécile Knai
  • Knut-Inge Klepp
  • Steven Cummins

Harry Rutter has published multiple works in key venues related to public health and obesity. The most frequent publication venues for their research are:

  • Obesity Reviews
  • European Journal of Public Health
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • The Lancet
  • BMJ

Their main fields of study are Medicine and Health Professions, with a focus on several subfields including General Health Professions, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Physiology, and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health.

The primary topics covered by their research encompass:

  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
  • Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
  • Health Policy Implementation Science
  • Community Health and Development
  • Nutritional Studies and Diet
  • Physical Activity and Health
  • Obesity and Health Practices

Best Publications

  • The need for a complex systems model of evidence for public health

    Harry Rutter;Natalie Savona;Ketevan Glonti;Jo Bibby

  • Successful behavior change in obesity interventions in adults: a systematic review of self-regulation mediators

    Pedro J Teixeira;Eliana V Carraça;Marta M Marques;Harry Rutter

  • Addressing liver disease in the UK: A blueprint for attaining excellence in health care and reducing premature mortality from lifestyle issues of excess consumption of alcohol, obesity, and viral hepatitis

    Roger Williams;Richard Aspinall;Mark Bellis;Ginette Camps-Walsh

  • Strengthening of accountability systems to create healthy food environments and reduce global obesity

    Boyd Swinburn;Boyd Swinburn;Vivica Kraak;Vivica Kraak;Harry Rutter;Stefanie Vandevijvere

  • Obesogenic environments: a systematic review of the association between the physical environment and adult weight status, the SPOTLIGHT project

    Joreintje D Mackenbach;Harry Rutter;Sofie Compernolle;Ketevan Glonti

  • Changes in health in England, with analysis by English regions and areas of deprivation, 1990–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

    John N Newton;John N Newton;Adam D M Briggs;Christopher J L Murray;Daniel Dicker

  • Green space and physical activity: an observational study using Health Survey for England data.

    Oliver T Mytton;Nick Townsend;Nick Townsend;Harry Rutter;Harry Rutter;Charlie Foster;Charlie Foster

  • WHO European Childhood Obesity Surveillance Initiative: body mass index and level of overweight among 6–9-year-old children from school year 2007/2008 to school year 2009/2010

    Trudy Maria Arnoldina Wijnhoven;Joop van Raaij;Joop van Raaij;Angela Spinelli;Gregor Starc

  • WHO European Childhood Obesity Surveillance Initiative 2008: weight, height and body mass index in 6–9-year-old children

    T M A Wijnhoven;J M A van Raaij;A Spinelli;A I Rito

  • Could targeted food taxes improve health

    Oliver Mytton;Alastair Gray;Mike Rayner;Harry Rutter

  • Implications of the Foresight Obesity System Map for Solutions to Childhood Obesity

    Diane T. Finegood;Thomas D.N. Merth;Harry Rutter

  • Systems approaches to global and national physical activity plans

    Harry Rutter;Nick Cavill;Adrian Bauman;Fiona Bull

  • Economic analyses of transport infrastructure and policies including health effects related to cycling and walking: A systematic review

    Nick Cavill;Sonja Kahlmeier;Harry Rutter;Francesca Racioppi

  • Scientific consensus on the COVID-19 pandemic: we need to act now.

    Nisreen A Alwan;Rochelle Ann Burgess;Simon Ashworth;Rupert Beale

  • Changes in health in the countries of the UK and 150 English Local Authority areas 1990-2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

    Nicholas Steel;John A Ford;John N Newton;Adrian C J Davis

  • Who owns the roads? How motorised traffic discourages walking and bicycling

    Peter L Jacobsen;Francesca Racioppi;Harry Rutter

  • Evaluation of public health interventions from a complex systems perspective: A research methods review.

    Elizabeth McGill;Vanessa Er;Tarra Penney;Matt Egan

  • Evaluating the travel, physical activity and carbon impacts of a ‘natural experiment’ in the provision of new walking and cycling infrastructure: methods for the core module of the iConnect study

    David Ogilvie;Fiona Bull;Ashley Cooper;Harry Rutter

  • Implications of a complexity perspective for systematic reviews and guideline development in health decision making

    Mark Petticrew;Cécile Knai;James Thomas;Eva Annette Rehfuess

  • Associations of individual, household and environmental characteristics with carbon dioxide emissions from motorised passenger travel

    Christian Brand;Anna Goodman;Harry Rutter;Yena Song

  • Stressful incidents, stress and coping strategies in the pre-registration house officer year

    Elisabeth Paice;Harry Rutter;Mike Wetherell;Belinda Winder

  • Stress in doctors and dentists who teach

    Harry Rutter;Joe Herzberg;Elisabeth Paice

  • A systematic review and meta-analysis estimating the population prevalence of comorbidities in children and adolescents aged 5 to 18 years.

    Vishal Sharma;Susan Coleman;Jane Nixon;Linda Sharples

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeroen Lakerveld
Jeroen Lakerveld University of Amsterdam
Martin McKee
Martin McKee London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Ilse De Bourdeaudhuij
Ilse De Bourdeaudhuij Ghent University
Charlie Foster
Charlie Foster University of Bristol
Mark Petticrew
Mark Petticrew London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Steven Cummins
Steven Cummins London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Heidi J Larson
Heidi J Larson London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Cécile Knai
Cécile Knai London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
David Ogilvie
David Ogilvie University of Cambridge
Theresa M. Marteau
Theresa M. Marteau University of Cambridge

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