**About the Special Issue Editor**

**Charlotte E.L. Evans**, Ph.D., (Associate Professor in Nutritional Epidemiology and Public Health Nutrition) has more than 20 years' experience in research exploring child and adolescent diet and health. She has a particular interest in improving dietary quality for optimum health in children and young people with the poorest diets. The main aims of her research are to improve the food environment, particularly in and around schools, and to make the healthier choice the easy choice. Another key area of her research is the evaluation of programs and policies to improve diet quality, such as increasing fruit and vegetable consumption and decreasing free sugars. She has more than 100 publications including papers, book chapters, and conference abstracts. She has spoken at international conferences and has presented at the UK All Party Parliamentary Group on School Food. In 2016, she was awarded the Elsie Widdowson Medal for contributions to Public Health Nutrition by the UK Nutrition Society. She regularly features on national and international television, radio, and in newspaper articles as a nutritional expert including the BBC, Sky, Channel 4, and Channel 5 news.
