Who we are

The UCD Institute of Food and Health is a major campus-wide initiative at University College Dublin to develop and conduct world class, multidisciplinary research into food and health.

The Institute is unique in Ireland and Europe in bringing together leading academics from all areas of food and health research, including:

• Food safety
• Food and the consumer
• Food production
• Food regulation
• Food and nutrition
• Food science
• Food biosystems

Affiliated schools

The UCD schools affiliated with the UCD Institute of Food and Health are:

• The School of Agriculture and Food Science
• The School of Public Health and Population Sciences

Our aim

The Institute’s aim is to foster research across disciplines and, through our research, to:

• influence national and European policy
• promote public awareness of food and health issues
• engage with our international peers

Why food and health?

The intersection of food and health studies is one of UCD’s priority research areas.

One of the truly unique strengths of the Institute is the capacity to move our research from primary agricultural production, through to food science and engineering, and from veterinary public health to food safety and nutrition, right through to food regulation and consumer research.

No other university initiative in Europe has as broad a range of research interests in this area.

Our people