Robert Aunger

Robert Aunger

SCIENTIFIC ADVISOR

Robert Aunger, Associate Professor, Evolutionary Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.  

Robert Aunger has a Masters in Urban Planning from the University of Southern California, a PhD in biological anthropology from the University of California, Los Angeles, and did post-doctoral work in psychology at the University of Chicago and King’s College, Cambridge. He has published books on cultural evolution, the evolution of human behaviour, and ethnographic methods. He is the lead developer of a novel approach to behaviour change called ‘Behaviour Centred Design’ which has its origins in evolutionary biology, ecological psychology and commercial marketing. For over a decade, he has helped implement public health projects in water, sanitation, hygiene, nutrition and HIV using this approach in multiple countries on the African and Asian continents, including designing creative materials for mass media and community activation. He has held grants from the Economic and Social Research Council, the Medical Research Council, the National Science Foundation, the Hygiene Council and the Department for International Development and has also consulted on behaviour change for the World Bank, UNICEF, the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition, Unilever, Procter and Gamble, Kimberly Clark, and GoJo Industries.