Research Associate

Email: em578@medschl.cam.ac.uk | Office: East Forvie Building

Background

Eleni is a behavioural scientist interested in developing and evaluating population and individual-level interventions for changing health-related behaviours that are linked to the development of non-communicable diseases. Her current work in the Behaviour Change by Design programme mainly focuses on evaluating interventions that involve altering aspects of the physical environment to change behaviour, including the use of portion and package size and labelling interventions for reducing food and drink consumption.

Eleni has a PhD in Health Psychology, which aimed to assess the use of financial incentives for changing health-related behaviours.

Research Interests

• Interventions that involve altering aspects of the physical environment to cue changes in health-related behaviour
• Interventions for increasing public acceptability of government policies aimed at improving populational and planetary health
• Systematic reviews of interventions to change health-related behaviour

Selected Publications

Mantzari E, Rubin GJ & Marteau TM (2020). Is risk compensation threatening public health in the covid-19 pandemic? BMJ, 370:m2913. DOI: dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m2913.

Codling S*, Mantzari E*, Sexton O, Fuller G, Pechey R, Hollands G, Pilling M, & Marteau TM (2020). Impact of bottle size on in home consumption of wine: a randomised controlled cross-over trial. Addiction 115: 12, 2280–2292; DOI: doi.org/10.1111/add.15042.
* Joint first authors

Mantzari E, Galloway, K, Pechey R, Zupan Z, Pilling M, Hollands G & Marteau TM (2020). Impact of bottle size on in-home consumption of wine: a feasibility and acceptability study. Pilot and Feasibility Studies 6, 19; DOI: doi.org/10.1186/s40814-020-00566-5.

Mantzari E, Pechey R, Codling S, Sexton O, Hollands G & Marteau TM (2020). The impact of ‘on-pack’ pictorial health warning labels and calorie information labels on drink choice: A laboratory experiment. Appetite 145, 104484; DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2019.104484.

Clarke N, Pechey E, Mantzari E, Blackwell A, Deloyde K, Morris RW, Munafo MR Marteau TM & Hollands GJ (2020). Impact of health warning labels on snack selection: An online experimental study. Appetite 154,104744; DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2020.104744.

Clarke N, Pechey E, Mantzari E, Blackwell A, Deloyde K, Morris RW, Munafo MR Marteau TM & Hollands GJ (2020). Impact of health warning labels communicating the risk of cancer on alcohol selection: An online experimental study. Addiction 116: 1; DOI: doi.org/10.1111/add.15072.

Pechey E, Clarke N, Mantzari E, Blackwell A, Deloyde K, Morris RW, Munafo MR Marteau TM & Hollands GJ (2020). Image-and-text health warning labels on alcohol and food: potential effectiveness and acceptability. BMC Public Health, 20: 376; DOI: doi.org/10.1186/s12889-020-8403-8.

Clarke N, Pechey E, Kosite D, Koenig LM, Mantzari E, Blackwell A, Marteau TM, & Hollands GJ (2020). Impact of Health Warning Labels on Selection and Consumption of Food and Alcohol Products: Systematic Review with Meta-analysis. Health Psychology Review; DOI: 10.1080/17437199.2020.1780147.

Mantzari E, Galloway, K, Wijndaele, K, Brage, Griffin, SJ. & Marteau TM (2019). Impact of sit-stand desks at work on energy expenditure and sedentary time: a feasibility study. Preventive Medicine Reports, 13 64-72, DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.pmedr.2018.11.012

Clarke N, Pechey R, Pilling M, Hollands G, Mantzari E, & Marteau TMM (2019). Wine glass size and wine sales: four replication studies in one restaurant and two bars. BMC Research Notes, 12, 426; DOI: doi.org/10.1186/s13104-019-4477-8.

Mantzari E, Vasiljevic M, Turney I, Pilling M, & Marteau TM (2018). Impact of warning labels on sugar-sweetened beverages on parental selection: an online experimental study. Preventive Medicine Reports 23:12, 259-267; DOI: 10.1016/j.pmedr.2018.10.016.

Mantzari E, Hollands, GJ, Pechey, R, Jebb, S & Marteau TM (2017). Perceived impact of smaller vs large-sized bottles of sugar-sweetened beverages on consumption: a qualitative analysis. Appetite, 120, 171-180; DOI: 10.1016/j.appet.2017.08.031.

Mantzari E, Hollands, GJ, Pechey, R, Jebb, S & Marteau TM (2017). Impact of bottle size on in-home consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages: a feasibility and acceptability study. BMC Public Health, 17:304; DOI: 0.1186/s12889-017-4214-y.

Pechey R, Couturier D, Hollands GJ, Mantzari E, Zupan Z & Marteau TM (2017). Wine glass size and wine sales: a replication study in two bars. BMC Research Notes, 10:287; DOI: 10.1186/s13104-017-2610-0.

Pechey R, Couturier DLaurent, Hollands G, Mantzari E; Munafo M, Marteau, TM (2016). Does wine glass size influence sales for on-site consumption? A multiple treatment reversal design. BMC Public Health, 16:390; DOI: 10.1186/s12889-016-3068-z.

Marteau, TM & Mantzari E (2015). Public Health: The case of Pay to Quit. Nature 523, 40–41.

Mantzari E Vogt F, Shemilt I, Wei Y, Higgins J, Marteau TM. (2015) Personal financial incentives for changing habitual health-related behaviours: protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis. Preventative Medicine, 75, 75–85; DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2015.03.001