Melanie Luhrmann is Professor of Economics at Royal Holloway, University of London and research associate at the Institute for Fiscal Studies. Melanie’s research focuses on public policy and health economics. In particular, she studies long run trends in nutrition and health. Currently, she evaluates a set of early life nutrition and health interventions introduced in the UK in the 1940s to explore their life cycle impacts on mortality and health outcomes in a project funded by the British Academy.
