Miranda Pallan is a Professor of Child and Adolescent Public Health and co-leads the PHRESH (Public Health RESearch for Health) Consortium, part of the NIHR School for Public Health Research (NIHR SPHR).

Miranda’s research focuses on the health and wellbeing of children and adolescents, encompassing diet and nutrition, physical activity, obesity prevention, food insecurity and mental wellbeing. Her research seeks to improve health at an early stage of the life course to reduce longer term ill health, chronic disease and premature death. Within these research areas Miranda has developed expertise in complex intervention development and evaluation, multi-methods research, and research with disadvantaged and ethnically diverse communities in the UK.