Global Nutrition, Health and Disease: From Molecules to Mankind
New Hunt’s House, Guy’s Campus, London
The Dept of Population Health Sciences is pleased to announce the first department seminar (in person) for 2025.
Professor Sumantra Ray (Chief Scientist and Executive Director of the NNEdPro Global Institute for Food, Nutrition and Health in Cambridge) will deliver a seminar titled "Global Nutrition, Health and Disease: From Molecules to Mankind".
Details:
1:45pm to 3pm, Guy's New Hunts House, Room G.8, 23rd April 2025
Please join us for coffee/tea at 1:45pm and the seminar will start at 2pm.
Abstract
This talk will outline global needs in food, nutrition and health as we head towards the 2030 goals, citing the work of the NNEdPro Global Institute across six continents with case studies of innovation and impact in applied human nutrition drawing from both the biomedical sciences as well as the social sciences demonstrating the interdisciplinary approach needed to solve complex challenges. This talk will also seek to highlight the value of intersectoral and international partnerships straddling academia, government, non-government and corporate sectors. One key case study will be around the multi-award winning Mobile Teaching Kitchen International Initiative.
Biography
Sumantra (Shumone) Ray is a UK licensed medical doctor and a registered public health nutritionist. He is the Chief Scientist and Executive Director of the NNEdPro Global Institute for Food, Nutrition and Health in Cambridge. His work has been recognised through a decade and half of funding from UK Research Councils as well as Fellowships awarded by Wolfson and Fitzwilliam Colleges at the University of Cambridge. He holds a fractional appointment as a Full Professor of Global Nutrition, Health and Disease at Ulster University.
He has also been a Visiting Professor at Imperial College London and most recently has been appointed as a Visiting Professor at Kings College London. Internationally, Shumone is an Honorary Distinguished Visiting Professor at the SNU Institution of Eminence in Delhi India. He is also the co-founder and Chair of the BMJ Nutrition, Prevention & Health. Professor Ray has published over 200 scientific papers. He is the editor of the Oxford Handbook of Clinical and Healthcare Research as well as the Elsevier Essentials of Nutrition in Medicine and Healthcare. Since 2024 he has also been Head of Nutritional and Preventative Medicine for the WellFounded Clinic.
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