Philip Baker

Phillip Baker, PhD, is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow, and Sydney Horizon Fellow, at the School of Public Health, at the University of Sydney, Australia. He received his PhD from the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Australian National University. His research focuses on understanding global food systems change and the implications for human health, ecosystems, and sustainable development. 

His recent work examines the global rise of ultra-processed foods in human diets, the governance and political economy of sustainable food systems transitions, and the commercial determinants of infant and young child nutrition. Dr Baker has published over 130 publications on these and related topics, including many that have stemmed from projects with the United Nations food and nutrition agencies. 

He co-led the Lancet Series on Ultra-processed Foods and Human Health, including the development of recommendations on mobilising a global public health response to this challenge.