Dr Angie Jackson-Morris
Angie has worked to improve health, particularly by addressing NCDs and their major risk factors for 25 years
Angie joined World Obesity at the start of 2025, and guides and oversees World Obesity’s programs, engages with partners from various sectors to develop and expand programs, and supports strategy development, alongside World Obesity CEO and Board. She has worked to improve health across a range of countries and sectors over 25+ years, at international, national, regional, and locality level.
She has expertise in designing and guiding strategies, policies, and programs, underpinned by applied research, capacity development, partnership building, and co-creation with communities and health system staff. Her work has focused particularly on preventing and reducing the Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs), including cardiovascular disease, diabetes, obesity, cancer, and poor mental health, by addressing the major risk factors for these conditions and building health system capacity to prevent, treat, and manage conditions
Dr Angie Jackson-Morris
Angie’s career includes leading the Center’s technical work, project and partnership development within the Center for Global Noncommunicable Diseases (NCDs) at RTI International, developing and leading the first national health promotion strategy for the Government of Saint Helena Island, focused on obesity and tobacco control – which won a global award from the United Nations Interagency Taskforce on NCDs.
Previously, Angie led the global tobacco control grants programme under the Bloomberg Initiative to Reduce Tobacco Use at the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease; developed health promotion strategies, guided implementation planning, and built capacity in the Maldives and India; and developed and led a range of prevention and health care improvement programmes in the U.K.
She earned her PhD, MSc, and MA (Honours) at the University of Edinburgh and has lectured and taught at postgraduate and undergraduate level, and her publications include journal papers, public reports, guides, blogs, and training modules. She has been a board member of health and development organisations, invited member of international steering groups, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health.