Professor of Human Nutrition and Director, Institute of Human Nutrition, University of Southampton; Director of National Institute of Health Research at Southampton Biomedical Research Centre for Nutrition, Southampton University Hospitals NHS TrustAlan Jackson was appointed Professor of Human Nutrition in the University of Southampton in 1985: the first Chair in the discipline in an undergraduate medical school in the UK. He is Director of the National Institute of Health Research Southampton Biomedical Centre in Nutrition.He trained in paediatrics at the University of Cambridge and University College Hospital London. He was a Wellcome Research Fellow and subsequently Director of the Tropical Metabolism Research Unit, University of the West Indies, Jamaica, where he helped develop the evidence base for the World Health Organization’s manual on effective treatment of severe malnutrition. He was foundation Chair of the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition to the Departments of Health and Food Standards Agency and a member of the nutrition panel of the European Food Safety Authority.He is currently President of the Association for Nutrition, a Council Member of the Caribbean Health Research Council, and convenor for the International Malnutrition Task Force.Professor Jackson was also a member of the Expert Panel for our Second Expert Report and subsequent Policy Report before taking his role as Chair of the Continuous Update Project Panel.
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