Dr Philip Calder

Philip Calder has a personal Chair in Nutritional Immunology at the University of Southampton to which he was appointed in 2002. Prior to that he held posts at the University of Oxford (1987-1995) and University of Southampton (1995-2002). He is a metabolic biochemist, a Registered Nutritionist and a Fellow of the Society of Biology. His research focuses on understanding the influence of dietary fatty acids on aspects on cell function and human health, in particular in relation to cardiovascular disease, inflammation and immunity. He has been awarded the Sir David Cuthbertson Medal by the UK Nutrition Society (1995), the Belgian Danone Institute Chair (2004), the Nutricia International Award (2007), the ESPEN Cuthbertson Lecture (2008), the New Zealand Nutrition Society’s Muriel Bell Award (2009), and the Louisiana State University Chancellor’s Award in Medicine and Neuroscience (2011). Professor Calder is a Visiting Professor at King Saud University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He has over 400 research publications; his work has been cited over 12,000 times and he is listed on isiHighlyCited.

Professor Calder served as an elected member of the Council of the UK Nutrition Society and he served on the Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism Group, Programmes, and Publications Committees of that Society. He was a founder member of the Nutritional Immunology Group of the British Society of Immunology. He served on the Council and on the Programmes and Science & Research Committees of the British Association for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition and on the Scientific Committee of the European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism. Professor Calder currently serves on the Council of the British Nutrition Foundation and on the Boards of Directors of the European Nutraceutical Association and of ILSI Europe. He is President of the International Society for the Study of Fatty Acids and Lipids (ISSFAL).

Professor Calder is Editor-in-Chief of the British Journal of Nutrition and an Associate Editor of Clinical Science, of Lipids, and of Nutrition Research. He is a member of the several other Editorial Boards including Annual Review of Nutrition, Biochimica et Biophysica Acta Molecular & Cell Biology of Lipids, Clinical Nutrition, European Journal of Nutrition, Nutrition, and Prostaglandins Leukotrienes and Essential Fatty Acids. He was previously on the Editorial Boards of International Journal of Biochemistry and Cell Biology and of Journal of Nutrition. He is co-editor of the “Lipid Metabolism and Therapy” section of Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition and Metabolic Care. He was founding Editor-in-Chief of the Frontiers in Nutritional Science series of books.

Prof Catherine Champagne

She is a professor of research and chief of Nutritional Epidemiology/Dietary Assessment and Counseling at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. She is also the coordinator of the Women’s Nutrition Research Programme at Pennington. Dr. Champagne’s research includes the Delta Nutrition Intervention Research 

Research Interests:

Dr. Champagne's research areas currently concentrate on studies which include dietary counseling and/or dietary intake assessment of subjects. She directs the Nutrient Database activities for the Centre. She is also coordinator of the Women’s Nutrition Research Programme at Pennington, a research, education, and outreach programme specifically targeted at women. She supervises a team of dietitians, programmers and other support personnel and her areas of expertise include food composition, menu design for specialised nutrient targets, dietary assessment, counseling strategies for chronic disease conditions, obesity and cardiovascular disease. Her interests are women and children’s health, diet for weight loss and chronic disease, Mediterranean diet approaches for reduction of cardiovascular disease risk, physical activity, and nutritional assessment of diverse populations.

Dr Lawrence Haddad

Lawrence Haddad is the Director of the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, and the current President of the UK and Ireland's Development Studies Association. He is an economist whose main research interests are at the intersection of poverty, including dimensions of poverty and food insecurity, HIV/AIDS, social protection, agriculture and women's empowerment. He is a member of the Lead Expert Group on for the UK Government Foresight Programme and of Irish Aid’s Hunger Task Force. He was recently selected for the latest Who's Who in Economics (Elgar) and was formerly Director of the International Food Policy Research Institute’s Division of Food Consumption and Nutrition.

Recent Research:

Professor Haddad has undertaken a large number of consultancies for international NGOs, multilateral organisations and banks. Recent examples of his work include directing a project for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to analyse how to improve the monitoring and evaluation of development programmes to support agriculture and food security; an analysis of the current state of food insecurity in the world for the FAO, and working with Save the Children UK to review UK and EC efforts to tackle undernutrition. The latter has greatly influenced the new DFID and EC strategies on nutrition. He has also published extensively on food security and undernutrition, including the recently published IDS Bulletin 'Lifting the Curse: Overcoming Persistent Undernutrition in India', IDS Bulletin 40.4, Haddad, L. and Zeitlyn, S. (2009).