WCRF International Grant panel member

Professor Janet CADE
Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Nutritional Epidemiology Group
School of Food Science and Nutrition
University of Leeds, UK

http://www.food.leeds.ac.uk/People/Cade.php

Professor Janet Cade is a leader of the Nutritional Epidemiology Group and also Director of the Interdisciplinary Centre of Obesity, Nutrition and Health (ICON-Health). She is also a founder member of the new professional organisation, the Association for Nutrition, which has responsibility for registration of nutritionists in the UK

Her main areas of research are:

• Nutritional epidemiology
• The role of diet in chronic disease aetiology
• Diet-gene interactions
• Assessment of nutrition interventions
• Development of dietary assessment methods

Professor Janet Cade’s major research project over the last few years has been the UK Women's Cohort Study, which has detailed information on diet and cancer incidence in 35,000 British women. Other major research activities include the evaluation of the school fruit and vegetable scheme; an intervention to improve school lunchboxes; and a study of caffeine consumption in pregnancy and its effect on birthweight.

In recognition of her work in public health nutrition and epidemiology, she held one of the first DoH/NHS Career Scientist Awards for Public Health (2001-2006).

Recent funding activity

National Institute for Health Research (Public Health)
Does the RHS Campaign for School Gardening increase intake of fruit and vegetables in children? (£398,481)

World Cancer Research Fund

Dietary patterns and breast cancer (£71,744)

National Prevention Research Initiative

Promoting weight loss and improved health using mobile phone technology (£417,427)

Optimisation of the National School Fruit and Vegetable Scheme (£584,016)

Food Standards Agency

Smart lunchbox template (£542,455)

Medical Research Council

Cambridge Centre for Nutritional Epidemiology in Cancer Prevention and Survival (£74,000)