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Professor Maria Maynard

Professor

Maria Maynard is Professor of Health Inequalities, specialising in the patterning of health by ethnicity and migrant status. Her interests include how racism and other structural discrimination and exclusion shape physical and mental health and their intersections.

Maria joined the university as Lecturer 2013 and is a Registered Nutritionist (Public Health) and a Fellow of the Higher Education Authority. She has published a number of articles in peer reviewed journals and presents her work internationally.

Maria leads the Migrant Health Research group in the School of Health, and the Tackling Inequalities theme of the Obesity Institute at Leeds Beckett. Core projects include Health Connections, a community-based diet, physical activity and healthy weight intervention for UK Black and South Asian adults; FOODEY focussing on ethnic patterning of type 2 diabetes; and the MRC DASH longitudinal study of health of young people from diverse ethnic groups. Maria is also the UK lead of a multidisciplinary and multiagency network funded by the Global Challenges Research Fund conducting projects addressing malnutrition, urban renewal and sustainable livelihoods among vulnerable women and their children in Ghana and Nigeria. She is Chair of the University’s Race Equality and Diversity Forum.

Current Teaching

Maria integrates her research into teaching and learning in dissertation and nutritional epidemiology modules for undergraduate and post-graduate students. She also supervises several PhD students conducting projects among migrant/ ethnic minority populations in the UK and in Low- and Middle-Income Countries. Proposals from prospective students interested in research within the areas detailed below are welcome.

Research Interests

Maria’s work draws attention to and includes those communities which are underrepresented in, and underserved by, public health research. Areas of particular interest include type 2 diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular, respiratory health and psychological wellbeing. Her activities make a significant contribution to bringing ethnic inequalities into the mainstream, in line with current public health and political priorities. Her overall grant income totals over £2M, and as a senior programme scientist in the Ethnicity & Health programme, MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, contributed to securing over £3.8M of core MRC funding for the programme 2003-2013.

Her research approach combines epidemiological and sociological methods and encompasses a range of theoretical lenses. Within an overarching inequalities framework, she applies community-based participatory research, behaviour change and socio-ecological theories. This approach also acknowledges the importance of class, gender and wider social, economic and environmental conditions which, taken together, shape differences in health status, health related behaviours and access to healthcare. Intersecting with this multiplicity of factors, the role of ethnic inequalities, as a key driver of health inequalities, is a central feature of her work. Her activities are built on community links established over time, providing access to wide-reaching networks that are trusted among their local populations. Maria's methodological expertise includes quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods approaches to developing health improvement interventions for child, adolescent and adult populations.