Maria Bryant

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Reader of Public Health Nutrition

University of York

United Kingdom

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Maria Bryant is a Reader of Public Health Nutrition at the University of York, UK. Her research focuses on various aspects of public health nutrition, including community-based antenatal programs, school-based bullying and its impact on well-being, and food systems approaches to improve dietary health. Recent articles delve into themes such as the effects of low-emission zones on perceptions of air quality and the implications of universal free school meal schemes on children's educational outcomes.

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Transformations to Regenerative Food Systems

Open Date: 2021-01-04

Close Date: 2026-01-03

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Co-design of a sustainable and acceptable implementation intervention to maximise the impact of whole school approaches to food within primary schools

Open Date: 2021-01-01

Close Date: 2022-06-29

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Understanding the impact of covid-19 on pregnant women and new parents: The Born in Bradford 2020 Families Study

Open Date: 2020-06-30

Close Date: 2021-12-31

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A coproduced mixed method evaluation of the NHS England low calorie diet implementation pilot

Open Date: 2020-01-01

Close Date: 2023-01-01

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ActEarly: a City Collaboratory approach to early promotion of good health and wellbeing

Open Date: 2019-08-31

Close Date: 2024-08-30

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Factors affecting take up of community based antenatal programmes in high income countries: a rapid realist review

Relationship Between School-Based Bullying Behaviours and Happiness, and the Mediating Role of Body Mass Index at School-entry: Evidence from the Born in Bradford Primary School Years Study

Understanding and applying food systems approaches to improve dietary health

Does implementation of a low emission zone change perceptions of air quality, acceptability and travel behaviour? a longitudinal and repeated cross-sectional survey study in Bradford, UK

Auto-enrolment of free school meals: a ‘No Brainer’?

Impacts of discretionary universal free school meal schemes on primary school children’s education attainment and school absence: A natural experiment study in England

Childhood obesity prevention trials: A systematic review and meta-analysis on trial design and the impact of type 1 error

Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a sustainable obesity prevention programme for preschool children delivered at scale ‘HENRY’ (Health, Exercise, Nutrition for the Really Young): protocol for the HENRY III cluster randomised controlled trial

Transferability of the NHS low‐calorie diet programme: A qualitative exploration of factors influencing the programme's transfer ahead of wide‐scale adoption

Who shouts the loudest? A qualitative study exploring barriers and enablers to implementing a low emission zone in a Northern UK city

Navigating the complexity of a collaborative, system-wide public health programme: learning from a longitudinal qualitative evaluation of the ActEarly City Collaboratory.

The Generating Excellent Nutrition in UK Schools (GENIUS) network: working towards a more health-promoting food and nutrition system in UK schools

Does implementation of a low emission zone change perceptions of air quality, acceptability and travel behaviour? a longitudinal and repeated cross-sectional survey study in Bradford, UK

The implications of defining obesity as a disease: a report from the Association for the Study of Obesity 2021 annual conference.

Meta-evaluation of a whole systems programme, ActEarly: A study protocol.

Interventions to Strengthen Environmental Sustainability of School Food Systems: Narrative Scoping Review

Born in Bradford’s Better Start (BiBBS) interventional birth cohort study: Interim cohort profile

Effectiveness of a midwife-led continuity of care model on birth outcomes and maternal mental health in vulnerable women: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial with an internal pilot, process evaluation and economic analysis.

A randomised controlled feasibility trial of an early years language development intervention: results of the 'outcomes of Talking Together evaluation and results' (oTTer) project.

Development of Public Health Core Outcome Sets for Systems-Wide Promotion of Early Life Health and Wellbeing

Are free school meals failing families? Exploring the relationship between child food insecurity, child mental health and free school meal status during COVID-19: national cross-sectional surveys

The art of Patient and Public Involvement: exploring ways to research and reduce air pollution through art-based community workshops – a reflective paper

Differences in total and regional body fat and their association with BMI in UK-born White and South Asian children: findings from the Born in Bradford birth cohort

‘When will this end? Will it end?’ The impact of the March–June 2020 UK COVID-19 lockdown response on mental health: a longitudinal survey of mothers in the Born in Bradford study

Cluster randomised controlled feasibility study of HENRY: a community-based intervention aimed at reducing obesity rates in preschool children.

A cluster RCT and process evaluation of an implementation optimisation intervention to promote parental engagement enrolment and attendance in a childhood obesity prevention programme: results of the Optimising Family Engagement in HENRY (OFTEN) trial

Differences in total and regional body fat and their association with BMI in UK-born White and South Asian children: findings from the Born in Bradford birth cohort

COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in an ethnically diverse community: descriptive findings from the Born in Bradford study

Collaborators (22)

Richard Cookson

Halima Iqbal

Carolyn Summerbell

Josie Dickerson

Elizabeth Stamp

ALEX MIRAS

Adam Martin

Amanda Farrin

Louise Clare Tracey

Jennifer Logue

Sarah Louise Blower

Rebecca Hawkins

Michelle Collinson

Aamnah Rahman

Jane West

Jessica Sheringham

Miqdad Asaria

Michelle McKinley

Bob Doherty

Liina Mansukoski

Trevor Andrew Sheldon

Adrian Brown

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