Biography
Professor Dame Theresa Marteau is a psychologist and behavioural scientist in the Clinical School at the University of Cambridge, and Honorary Fellow at Christ’s College, Cambridge.
Her research interests include:
- development and evaluation of interventions to change behaviour (principally diet, tobacco and alcohol consumption) to improve population health equitably and sustainably, with a particular focus on targeting non-conscious processes
- acceptability to publics and policy makers of government intervention to change behaviour
Her book Pushback: How We Can Change Our Behaviour to Build a Thriving World is due to be published by The Bodley Head in January 2027
Publications
Rockström J, Thilsted SH, Willett WC, …. Marteau TM… DeClerck F. The EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy, sustainable, and just food systems. The Lancet. 2025, Volume 406, Issue 10512, 1625 - 1700
Mantzari E. Ventsel M, Pechey E, Lee I, Pilling MA, Hollands GJ, Marteau TM. Impact on wine sales of removing the largest serving size by the glass: an A-B-A reversal trial in 21 pubs, bars and restaurants in England. PLOS Medicine; 21(1): e1004313.
Marteau TM, Rutter, H., Marmot, M. Changing behaviour: an essential component of tackling health inequalities BMJ 2021;372:n332
Reynolds JP, Stautz K, Pilling M, van der Linden S, Marteau TM. Communicating the effectiveness and ineffectiveness of government policies and their impact on public support: A systematic review with meta-analysis. Royal Society open science. 2020 Jan 15;7(1):190522. doi: 10.1098/rsos.190522
Hollands GJ, French DP, Griffin SJ, Prevost AT, Sutton S, King S, Marteau TM. (2016) The impact of communicating genetic risks of disease on risk-reducing health behaviour: systematic review with meta-analysis. BMJ; 352:i1102; doi: 10.1136/bmj.i1102
Marteau TM, Hollands GJ Fletcher PC. Changing human behavior to prevent disease: The importance of targeting automatic processes. Science 2012, 337, 1492; doi: 10.1126/science.122691
