Alison Tedstone

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(born April 1961) is Chief Nutritionist (National Director of Diet, Obesity and Physical Activity) at

Public Health England Public Health England (PHE) was an executive agency of the Department of Health and Social Care in England which began operating on 1 April 2013 to protect and improve health and wellbeing and reduce health inequalities. Its formation came as a ...

(PHE).

Education

Tedstone has a

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and a PhD degree from the

University of London The University of London (UoL; abbreviated as Lond or more rarely Londin in post-nominals) is a federal public research university located in London, England, United Kingdom. The university was established by royal charter in 1836 as a degree ...

, and conducted research into

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at the

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Career

From 2001 she was an academic at the

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. She joined the

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in 2001, becoming Head of Nutrition Science. In 2010 her role (along with colleagues working on nutrition policy in England) transferred to the Department of Health, and in turn to Public Health England when it was established in 2013. She became Chief Nutritionist at PHE. Her work includes the National Diet and Nutrition Survey, and she gives evidence to the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition. Tedstone is a Registered Public Health

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and a founding fellow of the

Association for Nutrition The Association for Nutrition (AfN) is the voluntary regulator for nutritionists and nutrition scientists in the United Kingdom. The association is a registered charity and is custodian of the United Kingdom Voluntary Register of Nutritionists ( ...

, the voluntary regulator for nutritionists in the United Kingdom.

References

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Government health committee in October 2015
1961 births Academics of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine British nutritionists British women scientists Obesity in the United Kingdom Public Health England Women nutritionists Living people Fellows of the Association for Nutrition {{nutritionist-stub