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Steven Cummins is affiliated with the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Medicine, with a particular emphasis on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Their work also intersects with subfields such as General Health Professions, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, and Health.

Their research covers topics including Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet, Nutritional Studies and Diet, Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology, Health Disparities and Outcomes, Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling, Urban Transport and Accessibility, and Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations.

Steven Cummins has contributed to numerous publications, with frequent appearances in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), SSM Annual Scientific Meeting, PLoS Medicine, Social Science & Medicine, and The Lancet.

Among their recent papers are:

  • Impact of the announcement and implementation of the UK Soft Drinks Industry Levy on sugar content, price, product size and number of available soft drinks in the UK, 2015-19: A controlled interrupted time series analysis (2020, PLoS Medicine)
  • Evaluation of public health interventions from a complex systems perspective: A research methods review (2021, Social Science & Medicine)
  • RETRACTED: Changes in soft drinks purchased by British households associated with the UK soft drinks industry levy: controlled interrupted time series analysis (2021, BMJ)
  • Associations between commute mode and cardiovascular disease, cancer, and all-cause mortality, and cancer incidence, using linked Census data over 25 years in England and Wales: a cohort study (2020, The Lancet Planetary Health)
  • Associations between trajectories of obesity prevalence in English primary school children and the UK soft drinks industry levy: An interrupted time series analysis of surveillance data (2023, PLoS Medicine)

Frequent collaborators in their research include Martin White, Jean Adams, Oliver Mytton, Laura Cornelsen, and Richard Smith.

Best Publications

  • Interrupted time series regression for the evaluation of public health interventions: a tutorial

    James Lopez Bernal;Steven Cummins;Antonio Gasparrini

  • Place effects on health: how can we conceptualise, operationalise and measure them?

    Sally Macintyre;Anne Ellaway;Steven Cummins

  • Understanding and representing place in health research a relational approach

    Steven Cummins;Sarah Curtis;Ana V. Diez-Roux;Sally Macintyre

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

    Harry Rutter;Natalie Savona;Ketevan Glonti;Jo Bibby

  • Food environments and obesity—neighbourhood or nation?

    Steven Cummins;Sally Macintyre

  • Peer Reviewed: A Systematic Review of Food Deserts, 1966-2007

    Julie Beaulac;Elizabeth Kristjansson;Steven Cummins

  • “Food deserts”—evidence and assumption in health policy making

    Steven Cummins;Sally Macintyre

  • Five insights from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    Christopher J.L. Murray;Cristiana Abbafati;Kaja M. Abbas;Mohammad Abbasi

  • A systematic review of food deserts, 1966-2007.

    Julie Beaulac;Elizabeth Kristjansson;Steven Cummins

  • Crime, fear of crime, environment, and mental health and wellbeing: mapping review of theories and causal pathways.

    Theo Lorenc;Stephen Clayton;David Neary;Margaret Whitehead

  • New Neighborhood Grocery Store Increased Awareness Of Food Access But Did Not Alter Dietary Habits Or Obesity

    Steven Cummins;Ellen Flint;Stephen A. Matthews

  • The use of controls in interrupted time series studies of public health interventions.

    James Lopez Bernal;Steven Cummins;Antonio Gasparrini

  • Gender differences in the associations between health and neighbourhood environment.

    M. Stafford;S. Cummins;S. Macintyre;A. Ellaway

  • Conceptualization and measurement of environmental exposure in epidemiology: Accounting for activity space related to daily mobility

    Camille Perchoux;Basile Chaix;Steven Cummins;Yan Kestens

  • A Systematic Study of an Urban Foodscape: The Price and Availability of Food in Greater Glasgow:

    Steven Cummins;Sally Macintyre

  • Natural experiments: an underused tool for public health?

    Mark Petticrew;Steven Cummins;Catherine Ferrell;Anne Findlay

  • Large scale food retailing as an intervention for diet and health: quasi-experimental evaluation of a natural experiment

    Steven Cummins;Mark Petticrew;Cassie Higgins;Anne Findlay

  • An open letter to The BMJ editors on qualitative research

    Trisha Greenhalgh;Ellen Annandale;Richard Ashcroft;James Barlow

  • Neighbourhood environment and its association with self rated health: evidence from Scotland and England

    Steven Cummins;Mai Stafford;Sally Macintyre;Michael Marmot

  • McDonald’s Restaurants and Neighborhood Deprivation in Scotland and England

    Steven C.J. Cummins;Laura McKay;Sally MacIntyre

  • Longitudinal Associations Between Cyberbullying Involvement and Adolescent Mental Health

    Amanda E. Fahy;Stephen A. Stansfeld;Melanie Smuk;Neil R. Smith

  • Taking account of context in population health intervention research: guidance for producers, users and funders of research

    Peter Craig;Erica Di Ruggiero;Katherine L. Frohlich;Eric Mykhalovskiy

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark Petticrew
Mark Petticrew London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Anne Ellaway
Anne Ellaway University of Glasgow
Hilary Thomson
Hilary Thomson University of Glasgow
Sally Macintyre
Sally Macintyre MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit
Amanda Sowden
Amanda Sowden University of York
David Ogilvie
David Ogilvie University of Cambridge
Margaret Whitehead
Margaret Whitehead University of Liverpool
Richard Smith
Richard Smith University of Exeter
Jean Adams
Jean Adams University of Cambridge
Harry Rutter
Harry Rutter University of Bath

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