Dr Nasima Akhter

Dr Nasima Akhter, an Associate Professor of Public Health, at SHLS, Teesside University, brings over 20 years’ research experience with a focus on health and educational inequalities, maternal, adolescent, and child nutrition, non-communicable diseases, mental wellbeing, food insecurity, and evaluation of interventions.

She aims to make data available to support policy decisions to reduce inequality, food insecurity, and malnutrition, and is particularly keen on research promoting health of minoritised ethnic groups living in the UK. She represents Teesside University for Health Equity North, Northern Health Science Alliance, and recently co-authored ‘Women of the North: Inequality, health and work’ and ‘The Parallel Pandemic: COVID-19 and Mental Health. She has rich and diverse experience in interdisciplinary research, quantitative methods, mixed methods research, and analysis of large and complex datasets. She is experienced in project design, planning, and implementation, management, and completed consultancy projects for the WHO, UNHCR, Save the Children, Oxfam Canada, among others.