Professor Nita Forouhi is a physician-scientist, Professor
of Population Health and Nutrition and Head of the Nutritional Epidemiology Programme
at the MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge.
She leads research on the link between nutrition and
cardiometabolic disease for informing prevention strategies in global
populations. Her research has generated >160,000 citations and is frequently
covered in the news, dietary guidelines and policy reports.
Nita is a Commissioner for the EAT-Lancet Commission on
healthy, sustainable and just food systems and Co-Chair of the World Health
Organization Guideline Development Group on animal-source foods. She is the BMJ
series adviser on the science and politics of nutrition. She was awarded
the Diabetes UK Rank Nutrition Prize, University of Cambridge Best Impact Award,
NIHR Senior Investigator Award and elected as Fellow of the Academy of Medical
Sciences. Nita trained in Medicine, Epidemiology and Public Health in Newcastle,
Edinburgh, London, and Cambridge.