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Mary Barker is affiliated with the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Health Professions, with a focus on several subfields such as General Health Professions, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Nutrition and Dietetics, Clinical Psychology, and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health.

The scientist's work encompasses multiple important topics including Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet; Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations; Child Nutrition and Water Access; Gestational Diabetes Research and Management; Child and Adolescent Health; Health Policy Implementation Science; and Birth, Development, and Health.

Mary Barker has contributed to several peer-reviewed papers, some of the recent ones include:

  • Food choice in transition: adolescent autonomy, agency, and the food environment (2021), published in The Lancet
  • A wake-up call for preconception health: a clinical review (2021), published in British Journal of General Practice
  • How do we harness adolescent values in designing health behaviour change interventions? A qualitative study (2021), published in British Journal of Health Psychology
  • A cluster-randomised controlled trial of the LifeLab education intervention to improve health literacy in adolescents (2021), published in PLoS ONE
  • Women's preconception health in England: a report card based on cross-sectional analysis of national maternity services data from 2018/2019 (2023), published in BJOG An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Mary Barker include:

  • Polly Hardy-Johnson
  • Daniella Watson
  • Wendy Lawrence
  • Sarah H Kehoe
  • Sofia Strömmer

Mary Barker's research has been disseminated in a variety of journal venues, with notable frequency in:

  • Public Health Nutrition
  • PLoS ONE
  • BMC Public Health
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease

Best Publications

  • Process evaluation of complex interventions: Medical Research Council guidance

    Graham Moore;Suzanne Audrey;Mary Barker;Lyndal Bond

  • Before the beginning: Nutrition and lifestyle in the preconception period and its importance for future health

    Judith Stephenson;Nicola Heslehurst;Jennifer Hall;Danielle A J M Schoenaker

  • Why is changing health-related behaviour so difficult?

    Michael P. Kelly;Mary Barker

  • Origins of lifetime health around the time of conception: causes and consequences.

    Tom P Fleming;Adam J Watkins;Miguel A Velazquez;John C Mathers

  • Process evaluation in complex public health intervention studies: The need for guidance

    Graham Moore;Suzanne Audrey;Mary Barker;Lyndal Bond

  • Intervention strategies to improve nutrition and health behaviours before conception

    Mary E. Barker;Stephan U Dombrowski;Tim Colbourn;Caroline H D Fall

  • A Systematic Review of Digital Interventions for Improving the Diet and Physical Activity Behaviors of Adolescents

    Taylor Rose;Mary Barker;Mary Barker;Chandni Maria Jacob;Leanne Morrison

  • Birth weight and body fat distribution in adolescent girls

    M Barker;S Robinson;C Osmond;D J P Barker

  • Food choice in transition: adolescent autonomy, agency, and the food environment.

    Lynnette M Neufeld;Eduardo B Andrade;Ahna Ballonoff Suleiman;Mary Barker;Mary Barker;Mary Barker

  • Interventions to prevent maternal obesity before conception, during pregnancy, and post partum

    Mark Hanson;Mark Hanson;Mary E. Barker;Mary E. Barker;Jodie M Dodd;Jodie M Dodd;Shiriki Kumanyika

  • Effectiveness of community- and workplace-based interventions to manage musculoskeletal-related sickness absence and job loss: a systematic review

    Keith T. Palmer;Elizabeth C. Harris;Cathy Linaker;Mary Barker

  • Developmental Origins of Health and Disease: A Lifecourse Approach to the Prevention of Non-Communicable Diseases

    Janis Baird;Chandni Jacob;Mary Barker;Mary Barker;Caroline H. D. Fall

  • 'Making every contact count': Evaluation of the impact of an intervention to train health and social care practitioners in skills to support health behaviour change

    Wendy Lawrence;Christina Black;Tannaze Tinati;Sue Cradock

  • What influences diet quality in older people? A qualitative study among community-dwelling older adults from the Hertfordshire Cohort Study, UK

    Ilse Bloom;Wendy Lawrence;Mary Barker;Janis Baird

  • Growth in utero and blood pressure levels in the next generation.

    David J.p. Barker;Alistair W. Shiell;Mary E. Barker;Catherine M. Law

  • Developmental biology: Support mothers to secure future public health

    David Barker;David Barker;Mary Barker;Tom Fleming;Michelle Lampl

  • Why women of lower educational attainment struggle to make healthier food choices: the importance of psychological and social factors.

    Wendy Lawrence;Chas Skinner;Cheryl Haslam;Sian Robinson

  • Process Evaluation of Complex Interventions Guidance: UK Medical Research Council (MRC) Guidance

    Graham Moore;Suzanne Audrey;Mary Barker;Lyndal Bond

  • Constraints on food choices of women in the UK with lower educational attainment.

    M. Barker;W.T. Lawrence;Timothy Skinner;C.O. Haslam

  • Does living in a food insecure household impact on the diets and body composition of young children? Findings from the Southampton Women’s Survey

    Anna Pilgrim;Mary Barker;Alan Jackson;Georgia Ntani

  • Behaviour, body composition and diet in adolescent girls.

    M. Barker;S. Robinson;C. Wilman;D.J.P. Barker

  • David J P Barker

    Jan Barker;Mary Barker;Caroline Fall;Clive Osmond

Frequent Co-Authors

Lucilla Poston
Lucilla Poston King's College London
Tom P. Fleming
Tom P. Fleming University of Southampton
David J. Farrell
David J. Farrell University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust
Graham Moon
Graham Moon University of Southampton
Graham Moore
Graham Moore Cardiff University
Laurence Moore
Laurence Moore University of Glasgow
Richard Saffery
Richard Saffery University of Melbourne
Wendy Hardeman
Wendy Hardeman University of East Anglia
Daniel Wight
Daniel Wight University of Glasgow
Cheryl Haslam
Cheryl Haslam Loughborough University

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