Membership of the review panel

Professor Murcott is Honorary Visiting Professor at City University in London, Professor Emerita in Sociology at London South Bank University and Special Professor in the Institute for Science & Society at the University of Nottingham. She is a past Honorary Professor in Sociology at the University of Leicester. Professor Murcott is currently engaged in advisory and supervisory activity focusing on research management in both academic and wider public sector settings.

Professor Murcott served as a member of the Food Standards Agency’s Advisory Committee on Research, was appointed a member of the Agency’s General Advisory Committee on Science in December 2007 and in 2008 is serving as a member of the Steering Panel for the Government Office for Science’s Review of the Food Standards Agency. As a senior academic, Professor Murcott built up many years’ committee experience, including taking the chair both within the university sector and on behalf of learned societies. Over the last 15 years she has extended this type of work as a member of various committees concerned with research and with the use of science in policy and practice.

Professor Peter Aggett
Professor Aggett is Head of School, Lancashire School of Health and Postgraduate Medicine and Professor of Child Health and Nutrition at the University of Central Lancashire. Professor Aggett is present on the panel to provide expertise in infant nutrition and represent the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health. Professor Aggett has been a member of a number of DH, MAFF and FSA advisory committees and is currently a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition (SACN) and the Subgroup on Maternal and Child Nutrition (SMCN). He has been chair of the European Society of Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (ESPGHAN) Committee on Nutrition and is currently chair of the Standing Committee on Nutrition for the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.

Adam Crosier
Currently works at the National Social Marketing Centre where he leads a programme of research on health literacy. He has extensive experience of social marketing, having contributed to a wide range of health improvement interventions at the Health Education Authority and the Health Development Agency. Adam has extensive topic knowledge in a wide range of public health areas including food and nutrition, with his main area of interest being public policy to reduce social inequalities in health. He commissioned the programme of research to inform the development and evaluation of the influential Big Smoke Debate.

Professor Elizabeth Dowler
A Registered Public Health Nutritionist, who conducts research on the social, policy and political dimensions of food and human nutrition. In recent years her main areas of research have been on the role of food and nutrition in mediating inequalities in health, in definition and measurement of poverty, and evaluation of policy intervention at local and national level. She has worked at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and in 2000 moved to social policy within sociology at the University of Warwick, where she is currently based. She was also a member of the external evaluation panel, Scottish Diet Action Plan 1996-2005, for NHS Scotland.

Uisdean Maclean
Was director of the Broadcast Advertising Clearance Centre, who were responsible for the pre-transmission examination and clearance of television advertisements against the Broadcast Committee of Advertising Practice's Television Advertising Standards Code. Mr Maclean is now a consultant in this field and recently carried out a review of compliance with the Advertising Standards Authority’s alcohol advertising codes.

Secretariat
Vivien Lund (FSA)
Clare Lowrie (FSA)
Parminder Nijjar (DH)

Observers
FSA: Joanna Disson and Claire Boville
DH: Sheela Reddy
Department of Culture Media and Sport: Representative of DCMS

Belinda Phipps (NCT)
Patti Rundall (BFLG)
Mary Renfrew (Breastfeeding Manifesto Coalition)
Sarah James (Nutrition Society)
Jessica Williams, (BDA)
Judy Moore (BDA)
Sue Ashmore (UNICEF)
Mike Brady (Baby Milk Action)
Rosie Dodds (NCT)
Claire Walker (Save the Children)
Phyll Buchanan (BFN)
Carolyn Basak (RCN)
Vicky Carne (MIDIRS)
Tricia Younger (NICE)
Stella Walsh (SACN)
Sharon Green (UNISON)
Frances Day-Stirk (RCM)
Lorna Phelan (RCOG)
Colin Michie (RCPCH)
Lindsey Smith (RCGP)
Alison Baum (Breastfeeding Manifesto)
Phoebe Tait (La Leche League)
Les Bailey (LACORS)
Brian Griffiths (Croydon CC (Nestle))
Oliver Darius (London Borough of Hillingdon (Heinz))
Tom Hutchinson (Wilts CC (Nutricia))
Anna Coombs (West Berks TS (Hipp))
Kathryn Heirons (Bucks TS (SMA))
Will Oulton (FTSE)
Lynsay Taffe (ASA)
Cristina Dominguez (AA)
Kerry Neilson (PPA)
Helen Gardiner (Hipp UK Limited)
Claire Hornblow (Hipp UK Limited)
Jayne Mayall (Hipp UK Limited)
Louise Radcliffe (H J Heinz)
Graham Crawford (SMA)
Liam McEvoy (IDFA)
Sally Griffiths (Nutricia)
Niki Bradley (IDFA)
Roger Clarke (IDFA)
Michael Collyer (IDFA)
Gavin Fergie (CPHVA)