UKNHCC annual report 2025: register of interests
Published 9 March 2026
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UKNHCC’s process for declaring and managing member interests
UKNHCC is committed to the values of openness and transparency and has rigorous processes in place to declare and manage any potential conflicts for UKNHCC members. These are all outlined (including the definition of interests) in the UKNHCC code of practice, in line with the Code of practice for government scientific advisory committees.
UKNHCC members have a duty to act in the public interest and to be independent and professionally impartial. Members of UKNHCC are appointed as individuals in their own right to fulfil the role of the committee. Members are not representatives of their particular profession, employer or interest group. Details of membership (including appraisals and recruitment) are also outlined in the UKNHCC code of practice.
Members are required to declare any potential conflicts of interest on application, at interview, on appointment and annually in the UKNHCC annual report. Any new interests are declared at the first appropriate committee meeting, included in the minutes and published on the UKNHCC webpage. Where members have a direct interest, this is handled in accordance with the UKNHCC code of practice.
UKNHCC’s risk assessments are undertaken in line with the UKNHCC framework for the evaluation of evidence (for more information, see the UKNHCC webpage). UKNHCC’s scientific opinions reflect the considerations of the whole of UKNHCC and are not influenced by any individual members of the committee.
Types of interests
Members should declare all interests relevant to UKNHCC’s terms of reference, including personal and non-personal financial interests as well as any non-financial personal interests.
Personal or family financial interest
Members should declare interests related to personal financial gain under the following headings.
1. Employment
Includes all current paid employments.
2. Other personal remuneration or paid employment
Includes all other paid work, consultancy, fees, royalties, appointments or contracts for organisations relevant to UKNHCC’s terms of reference.
Members should indicate whether the payment is made to a personal account, a university account or to an employer. Members should indicate whether the value is greater or less than £10,000 over the declared period.
3. Remunerated talks, presentations, podcasts and other media relevant to UKNHCC’s terms of reference
Members should declare whether the value of the honorarium is greater or less than £1,000, and whether they were paid any expenses, accommodation and/or registration fees. Members should declare the nature of any commercial collaboration or funding of the event.
4. Share ownership in companies relevant to UKNHCC’s terms of reference
Members are required to declare all shareholdings that are relevant to the work of UKNHCC. However, these could range from having a few shares to having a controlling interest in a business.
Members should declare the share percentage according to the following thresholds:
- greater than 10%
- less than 10%
- greater than 1%
- less than 1%
Members should declare the value of the shares, whether greater or less than £10,000. Where the value of shares may fluctuate, the declaration should be made based on the situation as at the end of the calendar year.
5. Gifts and hospitality
Members should declare any gifts or hospitality received from organisations related to the work of UKNHCC (consistent with DHSC policy and procedure on registering of gifts, hospitality and declarations of interest).
6. Family interest
Members should declare any financial gain to a spouse, (non-business) partner or dependents, for activities or from organisations relevant to UKNHCC’s terms of reference.
Holding financial instruments (such as a pension scheme) would not be counted as a financial interest, provided the member or family member has no influence on the management of the financial instrument.
Non-personal financial interest
Members should declare interests related to payment or other benefit to an organisation in which a member is employed, which is not received personally but is for work in which a member is directly involved or is directly responsible for, from a body relating to the work of UKNHCC.
7. Research funding
Members are not required to declare all relevant interests of their co-workers. It is only necessary to declare interests in which a member is jointly involved, or for which they have oversight or responsibility.
Members should declare support and grants (financial or in kind) from any funder, in which they are directly involved.
Members should provide web links to the grant where available.
Members should declare:
- any commercial contribution to research funding
- whether the commercial involvement was a stipulation by the grant funder
- if there are governance or processes to guide the role of the commercial partner
Members should declare whether the value of the grant is greater or less than £100,000 per year.
Personal non-financial interest
Members should declare non-financial personal interests under the following headings.
8. Other positions of administrative responsibility not already covered
These are positions of administrative responsibility for institutional interests not already covered in the register of interests, for example head of department.
9. Non-paid professional activities and memberships
Members should declare any non-paid professional activities and memberships relevant to UKNHCC’s terms of reference, including:
- non-paid honorary appointments
- affiliations
- advisory positions
- consultancy
- directorships
- journal editorial positions
This includes any non-paid work with industry or related to affiliations.
10. Non-remunerated, expenses paid, talks, presentations, podcasts and other media fully or partially funded by a commercial or profit-making organisation relevant to UKNHCC’s terms of reference
These are talks, presentations, podcasts and other media where no honorarium was paid, but expenses were fully or partially funded by a commercial or profit-making organisation relevant to UKNHCC’s terms of reference.
Members should declare any unpaid talks or similar where expenses such as travel, accommodation and conference attendance were fully or partially funded by a commercial or profit-making organisation relevant to UKNHCC’s terms of reference. This can include conferences organised by professional bodies that receive funding from a commercial or profit making organisation, where known.
Talks or presentations for an event not partially funded by a commercial or profit-making organisation, or where there was no reimbursement of expenses, will be included in UKNHCC meeting minutes and do not need to be included in the register.
Members are appointed based on their scientific expertise on topics related to the work of UKNHCC. It is not necessary to include a list of publications or articles in the register of interests, but where a member’s paper is considered as part of an assessment, this should be highlighted in the minutes of the relevant discussion.
If a member has an interest not specified in these notes but which they believe should be declared, they should seek advice from the UKNHCC chair and secretariat.
Information and context are vital to understanding declared interests and communicating these will complement UKNHCC’s policy of transparency and openness. A positive and useful way of doing this would be for members to feed back at meetings on relevant aspects of their work outside of UKNHCC, which appear on the register of interests.
About this register of interests
This register contains interests for 2025 and the previous year (so covering January 2024 to December 2025). Previous UKNHCC annual reports provide a historical account of members interests.
Only interests relevant to UKNHCC’s terms of reference are within the scope of this register. Members are not required to declare relevant interests of their co-workers or collaborators. It is only necessary to declare interests in which a member is jointly involved or for which a member has oversight or responsibility.
If members do not have any interests to declare within a section, then ‘none’ is stated under the heading.
No members are directly employed by industry.
Industry partnerships may be a prerequisite for some types of nutrition research. For example, to provide specific foods stuffs or data, or as a requirement of some research grants including Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC). This is highlighted where relevant.
Dr Robert Boyle
Personal or family financial
1. Employment
Clinical Reader in Paediatric Allergy, Faculty of Medicine, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London
Subject matter: research, teaching and clinical practice
Dates: since 2007
Paid to: personal account
2. Other personal remuneration and paid employment
OHID
Subject matter: member of SACN
Dates: June 2025 to present
Paid to: personal account
Value: less than £10,000 per year
OHID
Subject matter: member of the SACN subgroup on maternal and child nutrition
Dates: January 2021 to present
Paid to: personal account
Value: less than £10,000 per year
Taus, Cebulash and Landau legal practice
Subject matter: expert witness in case related to infant formula health claims
Dates: 2024 to 2025
Paid to: personal account
Value: less than £10,000 per year
Several independent legal practices and coroner courts
Subject matter: consultancy for expert witness and medical witness work (written medical assessments and court attendance in relation to cases of children and adolescents with food allergy)
Dates: since 2016
Paid to: personal account
Value: less than £10,000 per year
WHO
Subject matter: contribution of chapter on health and nutrition claims for infant and young child formula to a WHO 360 report
Dates: 2023 to 2024
Paid to: personal account
Value: less than £10,000 per year
Joint Editor in Chief of Clinical and Experimental Allergy journal, Wiley, the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology
Subject matter: allergy
Dates: since 2021
Paid to: personal account
Value: greater than £10,000 per year
3. Remunerated talks, presentations, podcasts and other media relevant to UKNHCC’s terms of reference
Invited talk to Chilean Society of Pediatrics
Subject matter: paediatric allergy
Dates: 2024 to 2025
Paid to: personal account
Nature of remuneration: honorarium paid. No expenses for these virtual presentations
Nature of commercial collaboration involved if any: none
Value of honorarium: less than £10,000
Invited talk to Belgian Federal Breastfeeding Committee
Subject matter: International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes
Dates: 2024
Paid to: personal account
Nature of remuneration: honorarium and travel expenses paid
Nature of commercial collaboration involved if any: none
Value of honorarium: less than £10,000
Nature of interest: invited talk to Belgian Breastfeeding Conference
Subject matter: allergy and breastfeeding
Dates: 2024
Paid to: personal account
Nature of remuneration: honorarium
Nature of commercial collaboration involved if any: none
Value of honorarium: less than £10,000
Invited talk for the Norwegian Directorate of Health
Subject matter: Infant feeding guidance in the Nordic Nutrition Recommendations
Date: 23 April 2025
Paid to: personal account
Nature of remuneration: honorarium plus flight and hotel for one night
Nature of commercial collaboration involved if any: none
Value of honorarium: more than £1,000
Invited talk for BreastFEEDucation, part of a European Union funded project on preventing non-communicable diseases
Subject matter: breastfeeding and health outcomes
Date: 2025
Paid to: personal account
Nature of remuneration: honorarium
Nature of commercial collaboration involved if any: none
Value: less than £10,000
Invited talk for Breastfeeding Conferences
Subject matter: infant feeding and allergy
Date: 2025
Paid to: personal account
Nature of remuneration: honorarium
Nature of commercial collaboration involved if any: none
Value: less than £10,000
4. Share ownership in companies relevant to UKNHCC’s terms of reference
None
5. Gifts and hospitality
None
6. Family interest
None
Non-personal financial
7. Research funding
Food Allergy Research and Education
Nature of interest: development of a diagnostic test for a form of food allergy called Food Protein-Induced Enterocolitis Syndrome (FPIES)
Award name: Unravelling the biological mechanisms underpinning acute FPIES for improved diagnostics - the BIO-FPIES network
Link to grant: Food Allergy Research and Education - Recently Funded Research (find under ‘2024 grants’)
Role: co-investigator
Dates: 2024 to 2027
Involves commercial collaboration? No
Involves commercial co-funding? No
Involves commercial contribution in kind? No
Was commercial involvement a stipulation by the grant funder? No
Is there governance or a process to guide the role of the commercial partner? Not applicable
Value: greater than £100,000 per year
National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Efficacy and Mechanism Evaluation Programme
Nature of interest: testing a pharmaceutical intervention in young children for preventing the development of asthma
Award name: Preventing childhood asthma using prophylactic house dust mite allergen immunotherapy
Link to grant: Preventing childhood asthma using prophylactic house dust mite allergen immunotherapy - NIHR Funding and Awards
Role: co-investigator
Dates: 2025 to 2030
Involves commercial collaboration? Yes, ALK-Abello, manufacturer of a house dust mite allergen tablet being used as the study intervention.
Involves commercial co-funding? Yes, ALK-Abello is providing a proportion of the total project funding, and is manufacturing house dust mite tablets and placebo tablets for the trial.
Involves commercial contribution in kind? No
Was commercial involvement a stipulation by the grant funder? No
Is there governance or a process to guide the role of the commercial partner? Yes, the project is being managed by Imperial College London clinical trials unit and led by Southampton University. Standard NIHR terms for commercial collaboration are being used.
Value: greater than £100,000 per year
NIHR Research for Patient Benefit Programme
Nature of interest: evaluation of topical eczema treatments
Award name: network meta-analysis project to evaluate comparative effectiveness of topical anti-inflammatory treatments for eczema
Link to grant: Topical anti-inflammatory treatments for eczema: a network meta-analysis - NIHR Funding and Awards
Role: principal investigator
Dates: 2021 to 2024
Involves commercial collaboration? No
Involves commercial co-funding? No
Involves commercial contribution in kind? No
Was commercial involvement a stipulation by the grant funder? No
Is there governance or a process to guide the role of the commercial partner? Not applicable
Value: less than £100,000 per year
NIHR Health Technology Appraisal Programme
Nature of interest: evaluation of the effects of dietary exclusions for eczema management in young children
Award name: Trial of IgE tests for Eczema Relief (TIGER): randomised controlled trial of test-guided dietary advice for children with eczema, with internal pilot and nested economic and process evaluations
Role: co-investigator
Dates: 2022 to 2027
Involves commercial collaboration? No
Involves commercial co-funding? No
Involves commercial contribution in kind? No
Was commercial involvement a stipulation by the grant funder? No
Is there governance or a process to guide the role of the commercial partner? Not applicable
Value: greater than £100,000 per year
NIHR Research for Patient Benefit Programme
Nature of interest: feasibility trial of an intervention related to infant bathing, for eczema prevention
Award name: Development and feasibility testing of an intervention to prevent potentially harmful skincare practices during infancy
Role: co-investigator
Dates: 2022 to 2025
Involves commercial collaboration? No
Involves commercial co-funding? No
Involves commercial contribution in kind? No
Was commercial involvement a stipulation by the grant funder? No
Is there governance or a process to guide the role of the commercial partner? Not applicable
Value: less than £100,000 per year
American Academy of Dermatology
Nature of interest: Cochrane systematic review of hidradenitis suppuritiva treatments
Award name: Interventions for hidradenitis suppuritiva
Role: co-investigator
Dates: 2024 to 2025
Involves commercial collaboration? No
Involves commercial co-funding? No
Involves commercial contribution in kind? No
Was commercial involvement a stipulation by the grant funder? No
Is there governance or a process to guide the role of the commercial partner? Not applicable
Value: less than £100,000 per year
Personal non-financial
8. Other positions of administrative responsibility not already covered
None
9. Non-paid professional activities and memberships
Cochrane
Nature of interest: editorial board member and senior editor
Subject matter: strategy and editorial policy, peer review and editorial decision-making for Cochrane, a leading evidence synthesis organisation
Dates: since 2018
Organisation: La Leche League Great Britain
Professional advisor
Subject matter: professional advice regarding allergy and breastfeeding support as required
Dates: since 2023
Baby Feeding Law Group UK
Nature of interest: membership of group
Subject matter: legislation to protect infant and young child feeding and enforcement of such legislation
Dates: since 2021
British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology
Nature of interest: membership
Subject matter: professional membership of national allergy society
Dates: since 2003
European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
Nature of interest: membership
Subject matter: professional membership of regional allergy society
Dates: 2024
Baby Milk Action
Nature of interest: director
Subject matter: advice to an advocacy group
Dates: 2025 onwards
All Party Parliamentary Group for Infant Feeding
Nature of interest: occasional attendance at meetings
Subject matter: advice regarding infant feeding issues
Dates: since 2025
10. Non-remunerated, expenses paid, talks, presentations, podcasts and other media fully or partially funded by a commercial or profit-making organisation relevant to UKNHCC’s terms of reference
Invited talk to the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (EAACI)
Subject matter: adrenaline autoinjectors for treating anaphylaxis
Dates: 2024
Paid to: personal account
Nature of remuneration: conference registration fee, hotel accommodation and travel expenses without honorarium
Nature of commercial collaboration involved if any: there was no direct commercial involvement in this presentation or the session in which it was delivered. However, the EAACI organisation and conference do receive sponsorship from pharmaceutical and nutrition companies, including formula milk companies.
Invited talk to the EAACI
Subject matter: Infant skincare interventions for preventing atopic dermatitis
Dates: 2025
Nature of remuneration: conference registration fee, hotel accommodation and travel expenses without honorarium
Nature of commercial collaboration involved if any: there was no direct commercial involvement in this presentation or the session in which it was delivered. However, the EAACI organisation and conference do receive sponsorship from pharmaceutical and nutrition companies, including formula milk companies.
Dr Francesca Crowe
Personal or family financial
1. Employment
University of Birmingham
Subject matter: epidemiology
Dates: 2017 to present
Paid to: personal account
2. Other personal remuneration or paid employment
University of Oxford
Subject matter: external examiner
Dates: 2024 to 2028
Paid to: personal account
Value: less than £10,000 over 4 years
Cegedim Rx Limited
Subject matter: reviewing reports
Dates: 2024 to 2025
Paid to: personal account
Value: less than £10,000 over 2 years
3. Remunerated talks, presentations, podcasts and other media relevant to UKNHCC’s terms of reference
None
4. Share ownership in companies relevant to UKNHCC’s terms of reference
None
5. Gifts and hospitality
None
6. Family interest
None
Non-personal financial
7. Research funding
NIHR
Nature of interest: grant funding
Award name: Research for Patient Benefit
Role: principal investigator
Dates: 2021 to 2026
Involves commercial collaboration? No
Involves commercial co-funding? No
Involves commercial contribution in kind? No
Was commercial involvement a stipulation by the grant funder? Not applicable
Is there governance or a process to guide the role of the commercial partner? Not applicable
Value: less than £100,000 per year
NIHR
Nature of interest: grant funding
Award name: Health and Social Care Delivery Research
Role: co-investigator
Dates: 2024 to 2028
Involves commercial collaboration? No
Involves commercial co-funding? No
Involves commercial contribution in kind? No
Was commercial involvement a stipulation by the grant funder? Not applicable
Is there governance or a process to guide the role of the commercial partner? Not applicable
Value: more than £100,000 per year
Bayer Pharmaceuticals
Nature of interest: grant funding
Award name: Aston University Collaboration: Reducing Residual Risk in Diabetic Renal Disease - 4R study
Role: co-investigator
Dates: 2024 to 2026
Involves commercial collaboration? Yes. Bayer Pharmaceuticals for University of Birmingham to conduct analyses on the management of diabetic kidney disease in primary care.
Involves commercial co-funding? Yes. Bayer Pharmaceuticals - funding to cover part of the annual licence for Clinical Practice Research Data link (CPRD) primary care database.
Involves commercial contribution in kind? No
Was commercial involvement a stipulation by the grant funder? Not applicable
Is there governance or a process to guide the role of the commercial partner? Yes. Set out in the contract with Aston University. The money is only to be used to pay for the CPRD licence. All analyses are undertaken by the University of Birmingham.
Value: less than £100,000 per year
NIHR
Nature of interest: grant funding
Award name: NIHR, Biomedical Research Centre
Role: co-investigator
Dates: 2022 to 2027
Involves commercial collaboration? No
Involves commercial co-funding? No
Involves commercial contribution in kind? No
Was commercial involvement a stipulation by the grant funder? Not applicable
Is there governance or a process to guide the role of the commercial partner? Not applicable
Value: more than £100,000 per year
NIHR
Nature of interest: grant funding
Award name: NIHR, School for Public Health Research
Role: co-investigator
Dates: 2024 to 2027
Involves commercial collaboration? No
Involves commercial co-funding? No
Involves commercial contribution in kind? No
Was commercial involvement a stipulation by the grant funder? Not applicable
Is there governance or a process to guide the role of the commercial partner? Not applicable
Value: less than £100,000 per year
NIHR
Nature of interest: grant funding
Award name: NIHR, Artificial Intelligence in Multimorbidity
Role: co-investigator
Dates: 2021 to 2025
Involves commercial collaboration? No
Involves commercial co-funding? No
Involves commercial contribution in kind? No
Was commercial involvement a stipulation by the grant funder? Not applicable
Is there governance or a process to guide the role of the commercial partner? Not applicable
Value: more than £100,000 per year
NIHR
Nature of interest: grant funding
Award name: NIHR, Research for Interventions on Global Health Transformation
Role: co-investigator
Dates: 2024 to 2029
Involves commercial collaboration? Yes. Arogya (Sri Lanka) will develop the workflow management platform to be tested for managing multiple long term health conditions.
Involves commercial co-funding? No
Involves commercial contribution in kind? No
Was commercial involvement a stipulation by the grant funder? No
Is there governance or a process to guide the role of the commercial partner? Yes - contract and set out in the terms of reference.
Value: more than £100,000 per year
Personal non-financial
8. Other positions of administrative responsibility not already covered
None
9. Non-paid professional activities and memberships
None
10. Non-remunerated, expenses paid, talks, presentations, podcasts and other media fully or partially funded by a commercial or profit-making organisation relevant to UKNHCC’s terms of reference
None
Professor Susan Fairweather-Tait
Personal or family financial
1. Employment
Emeritus Professor, University of East Anglia (UEA)
Subject matter: human nutrition
Dates: retired since August 2025
Paid to: unpaid
2. Other personal remuneration or paid employment
Food Standards Agency (FSA) Advisory Committee on Novel Foods and Processes
Subject matter: committee member
Dates: 2020 to 2027
Paid to: personal account
Value: less than £10,000 per year
OHID
Subject matter: member of SACN, member of vitamin D Working Group
Dates: 2021 to 2029
Paid to: personal account
Value: less than £10,000 per year
EFSA
Subject matter: member of Nutrition, Novel Foods and Food Allergens Working Group on upper levels
Dates: January 2022 to September 2024
Paid to: personal account
Value: less than £10,000 per year
Henry Stewart Talks
Subject matter: production of undergraduate level short audio presentations
Dates: August 2024 to present
Paid to: personal account
Value: less than £10,000 per year
King’s College London
Subject matter: Consultant on NIHR grant on iron bioavailability
Dates: 1 August 2025 to 31 March 2027
Paid to: personal account
Value: less than £10,000 per year
COT
Subject matter: SACN representative on the FSA COT
Dates: 2025 to present
Paid to: personal account
Value: less than £10,000 per year
3. Remunerated talks, presentations, podcasts and other media relevant to UKNHCC’s terms of reference
None
4. Share ownership in companies relevant to UKNHCC’s terms of reference
None
5. Gifts and hospitality
None
6. Family interest
None
Non-personal financial
7. Research funding
NIHR
Nature of interest: research project funds
Award name: Assessment of Dietary Iron Bioavailability to inform Dietary Reference Values for Iron
Link to grant if available: Systematic review and modelling of dietary iron bioavailability and requirements for UK populations - NIHR Funding and Awards
Role: co-investigator (principal investigator is Jeannine Baumgartner, King’s College London)
Dates: April 2025 to July 2025 (research will continue until 2027 but will be contributing in a personal capacity rather than through UEA from August 2025)
Involves commercial collaboration? No
Involves commercial co-funding? No
Involves commercial contribution in kind? No
Was commercial involvement a stipulation by the grant funder? No
Are there governance/processes to guide the role of the commercial partner? Not applicable
Value: greater than £100,000 per year
Personal non-financial
8. Other positions of administrative responsibility not already covered
None
9. Non-paid professional activities and memberships
American Society for Nutrition
Nature of interest: Distinguished Fellow
Subject matter: nutrition
Dates: January 2023 to present
Organisation: Nutrition Society
Nature of interest: Honorary Fellow
Subject matter: nutrition
Dates: 2021 to present
Big C Cancer Charity
Nature of interest: member of advisory panel
Subject matter: reviewing grant applications
Dates: 2019 to 2024
FAO at the United Nations, WHO
Nature of interest: chair of the FAO and WHO expert group on nutrient requirements for children aged 0 to 36 months
Subject matter: setting nutrient reference values
Dates: 2020 to 2024
OHID
Nature of interest: member of the National Diet and Nutrition Survey project board
Subject matter: representative for SACN on rolling programme project board
Dates: November 2022 to present
BBSRC
Nature of interest: member of advisory board and steering committee respectively
Subject matter: Diet and Health Open Innovation Research Club hub on Biofortification (led by Norwich Research Park) and Functional Foods (INFORM) (led by the University of Reading and the University of Leeds)
Dates: 2022 to 2027
Saltzburg University Erasmus and Blended Intensive Programme on Drinking Water Requirements for Health
Nature of interest: invited talk (online)
Subject matter: overview of the EFSA scientific opinion on dietary reference values for water
Dates: 6 December 2024
UEA (Norwich Institute for Sustainable Development)
Nature of interest: attendance at an online round table meeting (as part of UKRI-BBSRC grant to UEA BB/Y003055/1)
Subject matter: wheat and nutrition
Dates: 17 January 2025
University of Edinburgh
Nature of interest: expert advisor on anaemia and micronutrients, particularly those related to anaemia
Subject matter: advising on the development of an anaemia risk prediction model in the UK Biobank using a machine learning framework that incorporates diet data
Dates: February 2025 to early 2026
Medical Research Council
Nature of interest: participant in grant proposal meeting in Zurich (travel and accommodation expenses paid)
Subject matter: iron bioavailability from biofortified potatoes and beans
Dates: 9 to 10 January 2024
10. Non-remunerated, expenses paid, talks, presentations, podcasts and other media fully or partially funded by a commercial or profit-making organisation relevant to UKNHCC’s terms of reference
None
Professor Alison Gallagher
Personal or family financial
1. Employment
Professor of Public Health Nutrition, Ulster University
Subject matter: public health nutrition
Dates: 1999 to present (professor since 2014)
Paid to: personal account
2. Other personal remuneration or paid employment
Editor-in-Chief, Proceedings of the Nutrition Society, The Nutrition Society (UK and Ireland)
Subject matter: Editor-in-Chief of one of the Nutrition Society’s journals
Dates: 2020 to present
Paid to: personal account
Value: less than £10,000 per year
Member of the International Sweeteners Association (ISA) scientific advisory committee
Subject matter: advising ISA in relation to the current scientific evidence available on sweeteners
Dates: 2016 to present
Paid to: consultancy paid to unrestricted university account
Value: less than £10,000 per year
Panel member, Spinoza and Stevin committee, Dutch Research Council (NWO)
Subject matter: review of annual NWO Spinoza and Stevin Prize applications
Dates: 2024 to 2027
Paid to: personal account
Value: less than £10,000 per year
Panel member, Atlantic Technological University (ATU), postgraduate research training programme (PRTP) evaluation transformation fund
Subject matter: the Higher Education Authority in the Republic of Ireland runs the TU RISE scheme. This is funded by the European Regional Development Fund and the Government of Ireland. ATU sought to allocate 60 PhD scholarship positions in 2024 through PRTP. Invited to participate as an external reviewer for applications submitted to this programme.
Dates: 2024
Paid to: personal account
Value: less than £10,000 per year
3. Remunerated talks, presentations, podcasts and other media relevant to UKNHCC’s terms of reference
None
4. Share ownership in companies relevant to UKNHCC’s terms of reference
None
5. Gifts and hospitality
None
6. Family interest
None
Non-personal financial
7. Research funding
Northern Ireland Chest Heart and Stroke (NICHS)
Nature of interest: research project funds
Award name: promoting physical activity in adolescents: developing and feasibility testing the Youth - Physical Activity Towards Health intervention in post-primary schools in Northern Ireland (Y-PATH NI).
Role: co-applicant
Dates: 2023 to 2025
Involves commercial collaboration? No
Involves commercial co-funding? No
Involves commercial contribution in kind? No
Was commercial involvement a stipulation by the grant funder? No
Is there governance or a process to guide the role of the commercial partner? Not applicable
Value: less than £100,000 per year
Safefood
Nature of interest: research project funds
Award name: food messaging to children and adolescents - what works?
Role: co-applicant
Dates: 2022 to 2024
Involves commercial collaboration? No
Involves commercial co-funding? No
Involves commercial contribution in kind? No
Was commercial involvement a stipulation by the grant funder? No
Is there governance or a process to guide the role of the commercial partner? Not applicable
Value: less than £100,000 per year
Personal non-financial
8. Other positions of administrative responsibility not already covered
Ulster University
Position: Head of Doctoral College (Coleraine and Derry/Londonderry)
9. Non-paid professional activities and memberships
British Nutrition Foundation (BNF)
Nature of interest: Chair, Editorial Advisory Board (EAB) for the Nutrition Bulletin
Subject matter: participate in 2 meetings of EAB each year. Assist with peer review of papers submitted to this journal and provide advice on the strategic direction of this journal.
Dates: 2019 to present
NICHS
Nature of interest: Vice-Chair, Scientific Research Committee
Subject matter: reviewing research proposals submitted to the charity for the annual research funding call and advising NICHS in relation to the quality of these applications for funding. Also input into NICHS business meeting which follows the research committee meeting.
Dates: 2018 to 2024
The Nutrition Society
Nature of interest: Chair, the Nutrition Society Irish Section
Subject matter: chairing the Irish Section Committee
Dates: 2022 to 2025
Public Health Agency Health and Social Care Research and Development Division
Nature of interest: panel member
Subject matter: invited to participate as a panel member to review applications for enabling research awards.
Dates: 2024 to 2025
ENLP
Nature of interest: Chair and President, ENLP Board
Subject matter: advice and input to the ENLP Board about ENLP.
Dates: 2015 to present
The Nutrition Society
Nature of interest: member
Subject matter: learned professional society
Dates: 1992 to present
Association for Nutrition (AfN)
Nature of interest: Registered Nutritionist (RNutr) and Fellow of the AfN (FAfN) (Public Health)
Subject matter: independent regulator for registered nutritionists
Dates: since 2001 (as RNutr) and 2014 (as FAfN) to present
10. Non-remunerated, expenses paid, talks, presentations, podcasts and other media fully or partially funded by a commercial or profit-making organisation relevant to UKNHCC’s terms of reference
Invited talk, BNF webinar
Subject matter: my talk explores current UK dietary recommendations and specific nutrient concerns during pregnancy, with particular emphasis on the role of key nutrients. This webinar coincides with a publication of a revised review on ‘Nutrition in Pregnancy’ in the Nutrition Bulletin of which I am a co-author.
Date: 9 July 2025
Paid to: not applicable
Nature of remuneration: not applicable (no honorarium or expenses were received or paid)
Nature of commercial collaboration involved: not applicable
Invited chair and speaker, scientific symposium at the International Union of Nutritional Sciences, 2025
Subject matter: title of symposium is ‘30 Years of ENLP: Nurturing Nutrition Leadership for Positive Change - Lessons Learned and Future Directions’. This symposium and interactive workshop, organised by the ENLP, focuses on nurturing nutrition leadership to maximise impact on global nutrition issues development in nutrition professionals and the value of a network of future leaders in the field.
Date: 28 August 2025
Paid to: not applicable
Nature of remuneration: not applicable (no honorarium or expenses were received or paid)
Nature of commercial collaboration involved: not applicable
Dr Darren Greenwood
Personal or family financial
1. Employment
Senior Lecturer in Biostatistics, School of Medicine, University of Leeds
Subject matter: employment
Dates: 1996 to present (senior lecturer since 2007)
Paid to: personal account
2. Other personal remuneration or paid employment
Springer publishers
Subject matter: statistical methods
Dates: 2012 to present
Paid to: personal account. Royalties related to Tu YK, Greenwood DC (Editors) (2008) Modern Methods for Epidemiology. Springer
Value: less than £10,000 per year
OHID
Subject matter: honoraria received, travel and subsistence reimbursed, relating to SACN
Dates: May 2018 to present
Paid to: personal account
Value: less than £10,000 per year
3. Remunerated talks, presentations, podcasts, and other media relevant to UKNHCC’s terms of reference
None
4. Share ownership in companies relevant to UKNHCC’s terms of reference
None
5. Gifts and hospitality
None
6. Family interest
None
Non-personal financial
7. Research funding
NHS National Services Scotland
Nature of interest: research funding
Award name: Evaluation of national long COVID data using the ELAROS symptom tracking application
Link to grant if available: not applicable
Role: co-investigator
Dates: 2023 to 2024
Involves commercial collaboration? Yes, clinical web portal and patient app developed by ELAROS
Involves commercial co-funding? No
Involves commercial contribution in kind? No
Was commercial involvement a stipulation by the grant funder? No
Are there governance/processes to guide the role of the commercial partner? Yes, data sharing agreements, independent steering group and patient representative group
Value: greater than £100,000 per year
Cancer Research UK
Nature of interest: research funding
Award name: Randomised controlled trial of behaviour change intervention to improve uptake of colorectal cancer screening
Link to grant if available: not applicable
Role: co-investigator
Dates: 2024 to 2026
Involves commercial collaboration? No
Involves commercial co-funding? No
Involves commercial contribution in kind? No
Was commercial involvement a stipulation by the grant funder? No
Are there governance/processes to guide the role of the commercial partner? Not applicable
Value: greater than £100,000 per year
NIHR
Nature of interest: research funding
Award name: Nutrition in pre-school children - the role of portion size, plant-based foods and commercially manufactured foods and drinks
Link to grant if available: Policy Research Programme (PRP) (37-01-06) Nutrition in early years (years 1-5) Research Specification
Role: co-investigator
Dates: 2025 to 2028
Involves commercial collaboration? No
Involves commercial co-funding? No
Involves commercial contribution in kind? No
Was commercial involvement a stipulation by the grant funder? No
Are there governance/processes to guide the role of the commercial partner? Not applicable
Value: greater than £100,000 per year
NIHR
Nature of interest: research funding
Award name: Evaluation of the national free school fruit and vegetable scheme
Link to grant if available: Research Specification - PRP (39-01-02) Evaluation of the School Fruit and Veg Scheme
Role: co-investigator
Dates: 2025 to 2027
Involves commercial collaboration? No
Involves commercial co-funding? No
Involves commercial contribution in kind? No
Was commercial involvement a stipulation by the grant funder? No
Is there governance or a process to guide the role of the commercial partner? Not applicable
Value: greater than £100,000 per year
NIHR
Nature of interest: research funding
Award name: Health effects from infection sequelae: tailoring services and advancing guidance (HERITAGE)
Link to grant if available: Health Effects fRom Infection sequelae: Tailoring services and Advancing GuidancE (HERITAGE) in Long Covid and Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome - NIHR Funding and Awards
Role: co-investigator
Dates: 2025 to 2028
Involves commercial collaboration? No
Involves commercial co-funding? No
Involves commercial contribution in kind? No
Was commercial involvement a stipulation by the grant funder? No
Is there governance or a process to guide the role of the commercial partner? Not applicable
Value: greater than £100,000 per year
Personal non-financial
8. Other positions of administrative responsibility not already covered
None
9. Non-paid professional activities and memberships
None
10. Non-remunerated, expenses paid, talks, presentations, podcasts and other media fully or partially funded by a commercial or profit-making organisation relevant to UKNHCC’s terms of reference
None
Professor Marina Heinonen
Personal or family financial
1. Employment
University of Helsinki, Finland
Subject matter: Professor of Food Safety
Dates: 1986 to present
Paid to: personal account
2. Other personal remuneration or paid employment
EFSA
Subject matter: member of the Novel Food Working Group
Dates: 2006 to present
Paid to: personal account
Value: less than £10,000 per year
3. Remunerated talks, presentations, podcasts and other media relevant to UKNHCC’s terms of reference
None
4. Share ownership in companies relevant to UKNHCC’s terms of reference
None
5. Gifts and hospitality
None
6. Family interest
None
Non-personal financial
7. Research funding
EFSA
Nature of interest: contribution to the risk assessment of novel foods and nutrient sources in the EU
Award name: EUBA-EFSA-2024-NIF-01
Role: Partner, leading expert of chemical product characterisation
Dates: July 2025 to May 2029
Involves commercial collaboration? No
Involves commercial co-funding? No
Involves commercial contribution in kind? No
Was commercial involvement a stipulation by the grant funder? No
Is there governance or a process to guide the role of the commercial partner? Not applicable
Value: less than £100,000 per year
Personal non-financial
8. Other positions of administrative responsibility not already covered
None
9. Non-paid professional activities and memberships
FutureFoodS, European partnership Horizon Europe
Nature of interest: member of Scientific and Stakeholder Advisory Board
Subject matter: advice
Dates: 2025, ongoing
Organisation: National Food Authority
Member of Scientific Advisory Board
Subject matter: advice
Dates: 2021 to present
10. Non-remunerated, expenses paid, talks, presentations, podcasts and other media fully or partially funded by a commercial or profit-making organisation relevant to UKNHCC’s terms of reference
None
Professor Harry McArdle
Personal or family financial
1. Employment
Emeritus Professor, Rowett Institute of Nutrition and Health, University of Aberdeen
Subject matter: nutrition science
Dates: retired since 2015
Paid to: unpaid
2. Other personal remuneration or paid employment
EFSA
Subject matter: novel foods working groups and task forces
Dates: 2009 to current
Paid to: personal account
Value: less than £10,000 per year
EFSA
Subject matter: member and Vice Chair of Novel Foods Working Group, Upper Levels Working Group
Dates: 2021 to 2024
Paid to: personal account
Value: less than £10,000 per year
EFSA
Subject matter: member of Novel Foods Working Group
Dates: 2024 to 2027
Paid to: personal account
Value: less than £10,000 per year
FSA
Subject matter: novel food applications
Dates: 2018 to October 2024
Paid to: personal account
Value: less than £10,000 per year
3. Remunerated talks, presentations, podcasts and other media relevant to UKNHCC’s terms of reference
None
4. Share ownership in companies relevant to UKNHCC’s terms of reference
None
5. Gifts and hospitality
None
6. Family interest
None
Non-personal financial interest
7. Research funding
None
Personal non-financial interest
8. Other positions of administrative responsibility not already covered
None
9. Non-paid professional activities and memberships
The Nutrition Society
Nature of interest: Honorary Fellow
Subject matter: nutrition
Dates: 2022 to current
10. Non-remunerated, expenses paid, talks, presentations, podcasts and other media fully or partially funded by a commercial or profit-making organisation relevant to UKNHCC’s terms of reference
None
Professor Anders Sjödin
Personal or family financial
1. Employment
Professor emeritus at the department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Subject matter: prevention and treatment of obesity
Dates: Emeritus since 2019
Paid to: unpaid
2. Other personal remuneration or paid employment
None
3. Remunerated talks, presentations, podcasts and other media relevant to UKNHCC’s terms of reference
None
4. Share ownership in companies relevant to UKNHCC’s terms of reference
None
5. Gifts and hospitality
None
6. Family interest
None
Non-personal financial
None
7. Research funding
None
Personal non-financial
8. Other positions of administrative responsibility not already covered
None
9. Non-paid professional activities and memberships
None
10. Non-remunerated, expenses paid, talks, presentations, podcasts and other media fully or partially funded by a commercial or profit-making organisation relevant to UKNHCC’s terms of reference
None