Alison Tedstone
Alison Tedstone MBE RNutr FAfN (born April 1961)[1] is Chief Nutritionist (National Director of Diet, Obesity and Physical Activity)[2] at Public Health England (PHE).
Education
[edit | edit source]Tedstone has a BSc and a PhD degree from the University of London, and conducted research into nutrition at the University of Oxford.[3]
Career
[edit | edit source]From 2001 she was an academic at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.[3]
She joined the Food Standards Agency in 2001, becoming Head of Nutrition Science.[4] In 2010 her role (along with colleagues working on nutrition policy in England) transferred to the Department of Health,[5] and in turn to Public Health England when it was established in 2013.[3]
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.[3]
Tedstone is a Registered Public Health Nutritionist and a founding fellow of the Association for Nutrition, the voluntary regulator for nutritionists in the United Kingdom.[6]
References
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External links
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- 1961 births
- Academics of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
- British nutritionists
- British women scientists
- Food policy in the United Kingdom
- Obesity in the United Kingdom
- Public Health England
- Women nutritionists
- Living people
- Fellows of the Association for Nutrition
- Members of the Order of the British Empire
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