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Professor Louise Goff, an academic Dietitian, was appointed Chair in Nutrition Science at the �鶹��Ƶ's Diabetes Research Centre in April 2023. Professor Goff leads an innovative, world-leading nutrition science research programme on ethnic health inequalities, with methodological expertise and a strong track record in investigating the pathophysiology of cardiometabolic conditions, how this may be ethnically distinct, and the mechanisms by which nutrition modulates this pathophysiology. Professor Goff’s deep phenotyping research programme (‘SOUL-DEEP’), a first in UK African-Caribbean populations, has shifted understanding of T2D development in people of African descent. Professor Goff has secured >£5 million of competitive research funding (£4.1 million as Principal Investigator), including an NIHR Advanced Fellowship and NIHR HTA grant, for ethnicity and health inequalities research, adeptly translating grants into patient/public impact and securing further funding to advance the field. Professor Goff's community engagement research to develop and evaluate nutrition and lifestyle programmes for long-term condition management in African and Caribbean communities has delivered significant NHS/public health impact, with rapid adoption and commissioning of two programmes: Healthy Eating & Active Lifestyles for Diabetes (‘HEAL-D’) and Living Lighter the African and Caribbean way (‘Up!Up!’). These have been spotlighted by NHS England and the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities as examples of innovation and best practice for tackling health inequalities. The impact and novelty of Professor Goff's work in the field of nutrition science was recognised through the award of the Diabetes UK 2023 Rank Nutrition Prize. Professor Goff has published >75 peer-reviewed publications. 

Yates T, Biddle GJH, Henson J, Edwardson CL, Arsenyadis F, Goff LM, Papamargaritis D, Webb DR, Khunti K. Davies MJ. Impact of weight loss and weight gain trajectories on body composition in a population at high risk of type 2 diabetes: A prospective cohort analysis. Diab Obes Metab. 2023; .

Reed R, Nevitt SJ, Kemp GJ, Cuthbertson DJ, Whyte MB, Goff LM. Cardiometabolic disease in black African and Caribbean populations: an ethnic divergence in pathophysiology? Proc Nut Soc. 2023; 1: 1-11. doi: 10.1017/S0029665123004895

Katsarova SS, Redman E, Arsenyadis F, Brady EM, Rowlands A, Edwardson CL, Goff LM, Khunti K, Yates T, Hall AP, Davies MJ, Henson J. Differences in dietary intake, eating occasion timings and eating windows between chronotypes in adults living with Type 2 diabetes mellitus. Nutrients. 2023; 15(18): 3868.

Morris A., Bright C., Cocks M., Gibson N., Goff L., et al. The role of physical activity in people living with diabetes: Recommendations from Diabetes UK’s 2022 diabetes and physical activity workshop. Diabetic Medicine. 2023; 40(9): e15169.

Cechin L., Campbell L., Oliveira A., Goff L.M., Post F.A. HbA1c screening for diabetes mellitus and to evaluated diabetic control in people of African ancestry with HIV in South London. Int J STD & AIDS. 2023;  34(7): 484–487.

Goff L.M., Davies K., Zelek W., Kodosaki E., Hakim O., Lockhart S., O'Rahilly S., Morgan B. Ethnic differences in complement system biomarkers and their association with metabolic health in Black African and White European men. Clinical and Experimental Immunology. 2023; 212, 52–60. .

Lowry S., Goff L.M., Irwin S., Brady O., Curran N., Lelliott, Z., Sevdalis N., Walker A. A mixed methods implementation study of a virtual culturally tailored diabetes self-management programme for African and Caribbean communities (HEAL-D) in south London and its scaling up across NHS regions in England: study protocol. BMJ Open. 2022;

Brown E., Williams A., Hakim O., Wilton M.M., Harrold J.A., Hughes D., Kemp G.J., Wilding J.P.H., Goff L.M., Cuthbertson, D.J. Single‐slice or multiple‐slice magnetic resonance imaging thigh measurements accurately predict whole‐body skeletal muscle mass in patients with Type 2 diabetes: A comparison with dual‐energy X‐ray absorptiometry. JCSM Rapid Communications. 2022. .

Moore AP, Rivas CA, Harding S, Goff LM. Misalignment: Understanding the challenge of self-management for people living with diabetes in UK Black African and Caribbean communities. Health Education Journal. 2022; 81(6): 679-692. .

Rivas C, Anand K, Wu F-W, Goff L, Dobson R, Eccles J, Ball E, Kumar S, Camaradou J, Redclift V, Nasim B, Aksoy O. Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic to improve the health and social care and wellbeing of minoritised ethnic groups with chronic conditions or impairments: protocol for the mixed methods intersectional asset-based study CICADA. JMIR Research Protocols. 2022;