Claire Thompson

Dr Claire Thompson is a Reader in Food Inequalities and Health at the University of Hertfordshire and she is the Theme Lead for NIHR ARC East of England’s Prevention and Early Detection in Health and Social Care theme.

Before joining the University of Hertfordshire, Claire was based at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine working on a variety of projects including Olympic regeneration, alcohol licencing, and a Wellcome Trust Society and Ethics fellowship investigating the health and wellbeing challenges of foodbanking. She completed a PhD in Human Geography at the Queen Mary University of London and has also worked as a teacher in Further Education and a Special Education Needs Teaching Assistant.