Policy Research Unit in Healthy Weight

The Healthy Weight Policy Research Unit (HWPRU) aims to deliver the evidence needed to help the government develop and implement policies that support people to maintain and achieve a healthy weight across the life-course, and reduce the prevalence and burden of obesity.

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Co-directed by Russell Viner and Clare Llewellyn and led by UCL, it is a collaboration with Institute for Fiscal Studies, Obesity Voices, City University London, University of Liverpool, University of Birmingham, Leeds Beckett University and University of Oxford. 

The NIHR Policy Research Unit in Healthy Weight is part of the NIHR and hosted by UCL.