Guideline Development Group for ultra-processed foods

The composition of the guideline development group is provisional and will be reviewed and confirmed by the WHO Guidelines Review Committee. The names and brief biographies of the individuals selected to be part of the guideline development group are also being published for public notice and comment.

Calls

List of members

Philip Baker

Australian Research Council Future Fellow and Sydney Horizon Fellow, School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Australia

Marialaura Bonaccio

Nutritional epidemiologist and Senior Researcher, Department of Epidemiology and Prevention, IRCCS Neuromed, Italy

SubbaRao M Gavaravarapu

Scientist & Head, Nutrition Information, Communication & Health Education Division, ICMR- National Institute of Nutrition, and Professor, Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research, India

Opeyemi Ibitoye

Programme officer, Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA), Nigeria

Sukyoung Jung

Associate Research Fellow, Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs, Republic of Korea

Simon Kimenju

Executive Director, Kula Vyema Centre of Food Economics, Kenya

Alyannah Lagasca

National Chairperson of the Youth for Mental Health Coalition, and Lead Convenor Healthy Philippines Alliance Youth Network, Philippines

Nazanin Moslehi

Assistant professor, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Iran

Lara Nasreddine

Professor of Nutrition, American University of Beirut, Lebanon

Mike Rayner

Professor of Population Health, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, UK

Elizabeth Catherina Swart

Professor, Department of Dietetics and Nutrition, University of the Western Cape, South Africa

Eszter Vamos

Senior Clinical Lecturer, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, UK

Bwambale Benard

Head of Programs, Global Consumer Center (CONSENT) and National Coordinator for the Food Safety Coalition of Uganda

Camila Corvalán

Professor, Institute of Nutrition and Food Technology and Director, Center for Research in Food Environments and Nutrition-Related Chronic Diseases (CIAPEC), University of Chile

Kevin Hall

Independent consultant, and Former Senior Investigator and Integrative Physiology Section Chief at the National Institutes of Health, USA

Romaina Iqbal

Distinguished Professor and Section Head for NCDs and Mental Health, The Aga Khan University, Pakistan

Neha Khandpur

Assistant Professor, Division of Human Nutrition and Health, Wageningen University, Netherlands

Amos Laar

Professor of Public Health Nutrition, and Chair, Department of Population, Family & Reproductive Health, School of Public Health, University of Ghana

Carlos A Monteiro

Professor Emeritus of Nutrition and Public Health, University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil

Jean-Claude Moubarac

Associate professor of Public Health and Global Nutrition, Department of Nutrition, University of Montréal, Canada

Sirinya Phulkerd

Associate Professor, Institute for Population and Social Research, Mahidol University, Thailand

Qi Sun

Associate Professor, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, USA

Mathilde Touvier

Senior Research Director, National Institute of Health and Medical Research (Inserm), France

Huijun Wang

Professor, National Institute for Nutrition and Health, Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, China