Research Associate

Population Health Interventions

Current work and interests

Currently, Natalie is a postdoctoral research associate evaluating voluntary bans on price promotions for High Fat, Salt and Sugar (HFSS) foods in the United Kingdom’s supermarkets. She is examining the United Kingdom’s dietary health policy agenda, and the equity implications of banning price promotions for HFSS foods.

Natalie Egan is an interdisciplinary social science and public health researcher working on food systems transformation, eating disorders prevention, and the intersections between the two. She is interested in how social, cultural, and political forces influence our health outcomes, and how they shape contemporary definitions of health. Natalie’s research has contributed critical perspectives on the weight-centred health paradigm, eating disorders prevention, weight stigma, GLP-1 agonist medications, dietary health policy, and co-producing knowledge between activist and scientific communities. Natalie holds an MPhil in Public Health and an interdisciplinary PhD spanning Public Health and Science and Technology Studies, both from the University of Cambridge. She has undertaken visiting research positions at the department for Social Studies of Medicine at McGill University, and at Harvard STRIPED.

Background and experience

Natalie holds a BSc in Politics and International Relations from the University of Bristol and an MPhil in Public Health from the University of Cambridge. She has previously worked as a programme manager for an education start-up, and in a policy role at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in the UK Government.

As a PhD student, Natalie was supervised by Dr Jean Adams and Dr Benjamin Hawkins, and funded by the Harding Distinguished Postgraduate Scholarship Programme.