Name Susan Jebb | ||
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Born August 29, 1964 (age 60) ( 1964-08-29 ) | ||
Dr susan jebb diet obesity and personal choice
Susan Ann Jebb OBE (born 29 August 1964) is a nutrition scientist, and the Professor of Diet and Population Health at the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences at the University of Oxford. She is the UK Government's advisor on obesity in the United Kingdom.
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- Dr susan jebb diet obesity and personal choice
- Dr susan jebb the future of food
- Early life
- Career
- Medical Research Council
- University of Oxford
- Personal life
- References
Dr susan jebb the future of food
Early life
She was born Susan Ann Parkinson. She studied at Surrey University on a course which included a six-month placement in an oncology research group at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London.
Career
She is interested in diet and the effect this has on obesity.
Medical Research Council
She was Head of Nutrition and Health Research at the MRC Human Nutrition Research in Cambridge.
University of Oxford
She chairs the Food Network on the Department of Health's Public Health Responsibility Deal.
In 2008 she was awarded the OBE for services to public health.
In 2014 she gave advice on the UK government's outlawing of sugary drinks for children.
Personal life
She married in June 1990 in Ellesmere, Shropshire and has a son born 2001 in Cambridge.