Rate My Professor Petra Meier

Meier's research specializations encompass cross-government policies to maximize health and wellbeing, with a focus on health inequalities linked to political, economic, social, and environmental factors, climate justice, and systems science methodologies including methodological triangulation. She directs the SIPHER consortium (£6.7 million, UKPRP-funded, 2019-2025), developing interdisciplinary frameworks blending qualitative, data science, epidemiology, and modelling for policy in inclusive economies, housing, and public mental health. She also leads HealthMod (£7.5 million UKRI, 2024-2028) on policy modelling for health inequalities, serves as Co-Principal Investigator for GALLANT (£10.3 million NERC, 2022-2027) advancing climate-resilient cities via Doughnut Economics, and is Academic Lead for Healthy and Equitable Futures in Glasgow Changing Futures. A Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS), she has served on the NIHR Public Health Research Funding Committee and editorial boards for Addiction (2010), Drugs: Education, Prevention, and Policy (2010-2023), and Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs (2017).

Key publications include the edited volume What Determines Harm from Addictive Substances and Behaviours? (Oxford University Press, 2016); "Participatory systems mapping: a review of population health research practice" (Health Research Policy and Systems, 2026); "Using Doughnut Economics to structure whole-system thinking with multidisciplinary stakeholders – a Soft Systems approach" (Urban Transformations, 2026); "The effect of climate mitigation and adaptation policies on health and health inequalities: a systematic review" (The Lancet Planetary Health, 2025); and "SIPHER Learning and Evaluation 2019-25" (2025). Her work has significant impact through evidence-based tools informing public health policy.