WCRF International Grant panel member

Professor Geraldine MCNEILL, PhD
Senior Lecturer
Population Health Section
University of Aberdeen
Aberdeen, UK

http://www.abdn.ac.uk/public_health

Professor McNeill studied Medicine and Physical Anthropology at Cambridge University and spent a year as a volunteer on a mother and child health and nutrition programme in Burkina Faso, West Africa before completing her clinical medical training at the University of Birmingham. She obtained higher degrees in Human Nutrition from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, with PhD research on adult energy malnutrition in rural Southern India.

She has been in Aberdeen since 1986. She worked initially as a Senior Scientific Officer at the Rowett Research Institute, where she established a residential unit for studies of energy intake and expenditure in human volunteers. Next she worked as Lecturer and MSc Co-ordinator in Human Nutrition and Metabolism in the University of Aberdeen, with a year as a visiting Research Fellow in the Division of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell University, USA.

Professor McNeill currently holds a joint appointment between the University of Aberdeen, where she is a Senior Lecturer in the Dept of Environmental and Occupational Medicine, and the Rowett Research Institute, where she heads a Public Health Nutrition research group.

She has broad research interests in nutrition epidemiology, with particular expertise in longitudinal studies of diet and health and methodology for dietary assessment in large scale population studies. She is currently a member of both the Committee on Toxicology of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment (COT) and the World Cancer Research Fund grant panel.