Jason Halford

Jason Halford is a chartered Health Psychologist, and currently the Convenor of the Liverpool Obesity Research Network (LORN). He is also Chair Elect of the UK Association for the Study of Obesity (ASO), Europe's largest National Obesity Science organisation.

He performed his undergraduate and postgraduate work in Leeds with Professor John Blundell in the late 1980's and early 1990's.

He has been involved in the behavioural assessment of potential anti-obesity drugs in pre-clinical models and humans ever since, including recent work on Rimonabant. Over the past 10 years his research has focused on drug induced weight gain, the effects of nutrients and fibre on appetite and hormone release, the effects of stress on eating behaviour, and on lean obese differences in the expression of appetite.