DrBenjamin Wood

Ben is a Research Fellow with the Global Centre for Preventive Health and Nutrition (GLOBE), Institute for Health Transformation, Deakin University. Ben received his PhD from the School of Health and Social Development at Deakin University, which examined the public health implications of excessive market power in the food manufacturing sector globally. He also holds a Master of Global Health (University of Barcelona) and a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery (University of Tasmania).

Ben is an emerging international research leader in public health whose current research mostly focuses on the political economy of food systems, as well as understanding and addressing the ways in which large corporate and financial actors adversely influence health and equity.