Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition

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The Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition (SACN) advises Public Health England and other government agencies and departments on nutrition and health related issues.

The SACN advises on:

• Nutrient content of individual foods, and on diet as a whole including the definition of a balanced diet, and the nutritional status of people.
• Nutritional status of people in the UK and how it may be monitored.
• Nutritional issues which affect wider public health policy issues including conditions where nutritional status is one of a number of risk factors (eg cardiovascular disease, cancer, osteoporosis and/or obesity).
• Nutrition of vulnerable groups (eg infants and the elderly) and health inequality issues.

Members

• Professor Paul Haggarty - head of Nutrition and Epigenetics and senior lecturer at Rowett Institute of Nutrition and Health at the University of Aberdeen
• Professor Timothy Key - Deputy director of the Cancer Epidemiology Unit at the University of Oxford
• Dr David Mela - Science leader at Unilever R&D Vlaardingen (the research centre for Unilever's foods brands) in the Netherlands
• Professor Ian Macdonald - Professor of Metabolic Physiology at the University of Nottingham and director of research in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences
• Dr Stella Walsh - Consumer representative
• Dr Anthony Williams - Consultant in Neonatal Paediatrics at St George’s University of London
• Professor Hilary Powers - Professor of Nutritional Biochemistry, head of Human Nutrition Unit and deputy head of the Department of Oncology at the University of Sheffield
• Professor Angus Walls - Professor of Restorative Dentistry and director of the Edinburgh Dental Institute
• Professor Susan Lanham-New - Head of the Nutritional Sciences Division at the University of Surrey
• Professor Julie Lovegrove - Professor of Human Nutrition, head of the Hugh Sinclair Unit of Human Nutrition and deputy director of the Institute for Cardiovascular and Metabolic Research at the University of Reading
• Professor Ian Young - Professor of Medicine and director of the Centre for Public Health at Queen’s University Belfast
• Professor Harry McArdle - Deputy director of science and the director of academic affairs at the Rowett Institute of Nutrition and Health at the University of Aberdeen
• Gill Fine - Public health nutritionist
• Professor Monique Raats - Director of the Food, Consumer Behaviour and Health Research Centre at the University of Surrey
• Gemma Paramor - lay representative

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