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Ann Prentice
Ann Prentice, CBE, FMedSci, FAfN, FRSB (born 1952) is a British nutritionist.
Prentice studied chemistry at the University of Oxford, then medical physics at the University of Surrey, and natural sciences at the University of Cambridge.
Since 1978, her career has been with the Medical Research Council, both in the United Kingdom and The Gambia at the MRC Unit The Gambia. From 1998, until its closure in 2018, she was the director of the MRC's collaborative Centre for Human Nutrition Research (HNR) (latterly called the "Elsie Widdowson Laboratory"). Her research group subsequently moved to the MRC Epidemiology Unit within the University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine where she is Honorary Professor of Global Nutrition and Health.
Her research focuses on lifecourse nutritional requirements for population health, with an emphasis on calcium and vitamin D, and encompasses the nutritional problems of both affluent and resource-limited societies. She is involved in projects studying pregnant and lactating women, people living with HIV, children, adolescents and older persons in the UK, The Gambia, Uganda, Malawi, Kenya, China, Bangladesh, India and South Africa. She is internationally recognised for her work in nutrition and bone health, and human lactation.
Her research interests include:
She has served on the UK Government's Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition (SACN) since its inception, including as chair between 2010 - 2020. She is a member of the SACN Subgroup on Maternal and Child Nutrition (SMCN). From 2004 to 2007, she served as president of the Nutrition Society.
Prentice was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2006 Birthday Honours and Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2024 New Year Honours for services to British and global public health nutrition.
She is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci), a Fellow of the Association for Nutrition (FAfN), and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology (FRSB).
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Ann Prentice
Ann Prentice, CBE, FMedSci, FAfN, FRSB (born 1952) is a British nutritionist.
Prentice studied chemistry at the University of Oxford, then medical physics at the University of Surrey, and natural sciences at the University of Cambridge.
Since 1978, her career has been with the Medical Research Council, both in the United Kingdom and The Gambia at the MRC Unit The Gambia. From 1998, until its closure in 2018, she was the director of the MRC's collaborative Centre for Human Nutrition Research (HNR) (latterly called the "Elsie Widdowson Laboratory"). Her research group subsequently moved to the MRC Epidemiology Unit within the University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine where she is Honorary Professor of Global Nutrition and Health.
Her research focuses on lifecourse nutritional requirements for population health, with an emphasis on calcium and vitamin D, and encompasses the nutritional problems of both affluent and resource-limited societies. She is involved in projects studying pregnant and lactating women, people living with HIV, children, adolescents and older persons in the UK, The Gambia, Uganda, Malawi, Kenya, China, Bangladesh, India and South Africa. She is internationally recognised for her work in nutrition and bone health, and human lactation.
Her research interests include:
She has served on the UK Government's Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition (SACN) since its inception, including as chair between 2010 - 2020. She is a member of the SACN Subgroup on Maternal and Child Nutrition (SMCN). From 2004 to 2007, she served as president of the Nutrition Society.
Prentice was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2006 Birthday Honours and Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2024 New Year Honours for services to British and global public health nutrition.
She is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci), a Fellow of the Association for Nutrition (FAfN), and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology (FRSB).