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Cédric Middel is an Assistant Professor of System Transformation for Health and Well-Being at the Athena Institute of the VU University. His work focusses on sustainability transitions in food and health-care systems, with a focus on systemic drivers of unhealthy dietary behaviours, challenges for health-care transformations, and the use of transdisciplinary methods to develop solutions.
His most recent interest is the role of commercial interests and power dynamics in shaping dietary behaviours and perceptions, contextualised within the broader field of commercial determinants of health.
He has a background in biomedical sciences (BSc.), transdisciplinary research (MSc.) and food system transformations (PhD).
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Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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SDG 17 Partnerships for the Goals
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Research output
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Fixing the Food Environment: Beyond Weight-Loss Drugs
Pineda, E., Fenner, C. & Middel, C., 2026, In: Public Health Nutrition. 29, 1, p. 1-3 3 p., e43.Research output: Contribution to Journal › Comment / Letter to the editor › Academic
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The Feasibility of an App-Based Worksite Health Promotion Program to Improve Mental Well-Being and Work-Related Vitality in University Hospital Workers: Process and Preliminary Effect Evaluation Study
Kremers, S. H. M., Beulens, J. W. J., Middel, C. N. H., Elders, P. J. M., van der Beek, A. J. & Rutters, F., 2026, In: JMIR Formative Research. 10, 16 p., e85135.Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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Causal loop diagramming the dynamics that shape food environments in Dutch supermarkets
Middel, C. N. H., Colizzi, C., Waterlander, W., Dijkstra, S. C., Beulens, J. W. J. & Mackenbach, J. D., Dec 2025, In: BMC Medicine. 23, 1, 578.Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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Real-world nudging, pricing, and mobile physical activity coaching was insufficient to improve lifestyle behaviours and cardiometabolic health: the Supreme Nudge parallel cluster-randomised controlled supermarket trial
Stuber, J. M., Mackenbach, J. D., de Bruijn, G. J., Gillebaart, M., Hoenink, J. C., Middel, C. N. H., de Ridder, D. T. D., van der Schouw, Y. T., Smit, E. G., Velema, E., Vos, A. L., Waterlander, W. E., Lakerveld, J. & Beulens, J. W. J., Dec 2024, In: BMC Medicine. 22, 1, 52.Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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Co-creation in public health research: an introduction to basic principles
Middel, C. N. H., Blake, M. R., Boelsen-Robinson, T., Mackenbach, J. D., Stuber, J. M., Vargas, C. & Forrester-Bowling, T., Oct 2024, In: Public Health Research & Practice. 34, 3, p. 1-7 7 p., e3432419.Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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Courses
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OAIZ: Opschaling Actieonderzoek Innovatieve Zorg
Middel, C. (Principal Investigator), Zuiderent-Jerak, T. (Principal Investigator), Marsman, G. (Project Researcher) & Wester, K. (Project Researcher)
3/03/25 → 31/12/26
Project: Consultancy
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SUstainable PREvention of cardioMEetabolic risk through NUDGing hEalth behaviour
Broerse, J. (Principal Investigator), Schuitmaker-Warnaar, T. J. (Project Researcher) & Middel, C. (Project Researcher)
1/07/17 → 31/03/23
Project: Research