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Sumantra Ray

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Sumantra Ray is a British licensed medical doctor and a registered nutritionist. He is the Founding Chair, Chief Scientist and Executive Director of the NNEdPro Global Institute (The Need for Nutrition Education/Innovation Programme).[1][2] He holds a fractional appointment as a Full Professor of Global Nutrition, Health and Disease at Ulster University.[3] In 2025, he was appointed a Full Visiting Professor at Kings College London. [4]

Ray has published over 200 scientific papers and is the co-founder and Chair of the BMJ Nutrition, Prevention & Health[5] as well as the editor of the Oxford Handbook of Clinical and Healthcare Research[6] and the Elsevier Essentials of Nutrition in Medicine and Healthcare.[7]

From 2008 to 2010, Ray was an NIHR Public Health Fellow and Corfield Scholar at Selwyn College, Cambridge. From 2010 to 2018, he held a Senior Clinician Scientist position with the Medical Research Council in the United Kingdom.[8][9] From 2019 to 2021, he was the Director of Research in Food Security, Health and Society at the University of Cambridge.[10]

Ray has been a Bye-Fellow of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge and a Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge.[11][12]

References

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  1. ^ "Prof Sumantra Ray: Bringing Nutrition into Healthcare Practice". Diabetes.co.uk.
  2. ^ "Tomorrow's doctors must become more competent in nutrition". GP (magazine).
  3. ^ "Sumantra Ray". Ulster University. Retrieved 6 June 2023.
  4. ^ London, King's College (2025-04-23). "Global Nutrition, Health and Disease: From Molecules to Mankind". King's College London. Retrieved 2025-05-06.
  5. ^ "Cambridge Forum for Sustainability and the Environment". University of Cambridge. Retrieved 6 June 2023.
  6. ^ "Oxford Handbook of Clinical and Healthcare Research". Oxford University Press. 3 May 2016.
  7. ^ "Textbooks.elsevier.com - tools for all your teaching needs". Elsevier. Retrieved 6 June 2023.
  8. ^ "National Diet and Nutrition Survey". GOV.UK. 22 September 2021.
  9. ^ "NDNS: time trend and income analyses for Years 1 to 9". GOV.UK.
  10. ^ "Cambridge Global Food Security". University of Cambridge.
  11. ^ "Professor Shumone Ray". Fitzwilliam College.
  12. ^ "NNEdPro celebrates 10 years of nutrition education and innovation". Wolfson College.