People Behind the Second Report:
Expert Panel
Methodology Task Force
Mechanisms Working Group
SLR Centres Lead Investigators
Peer Reviewers
Observers
Advisory Group
Executive Team
Secretariat
A Global Expert Panel
The report was compiled by 21 of the world's top researchers in this area, with the support of independent observers. Each scientist brought a special area of expertise to the Report.

Sir Michael Marmot
MB BS MPH PhD FRCP FFPH
Chair
University College London
UK

Tola Atinmo
University of Ibadan
Nigeria

Tim Byers MD MPH
University of Colorado Health Sciences Centre
Denver, CO, USA

Junshi Chen MD
Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention
Beijing, People's Republic of China

Tomio Hirohata
MD DrScHyg PhD
Kyushu University
Fukuoka City Japan

Alan Jackson
CBE MD FRCP FRCPCH FRCPath
University of Southampton
UK

W Philip T James
CBE MD DSc FRSE FRCP
International Obesity
Task Force
London, UK

Laurence N Kolonel MD PhD
University of Hawaii
Honolulu, HI, USA

Shiriki Kumanyika PhD MPH
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA USA

Claus Leitzmann PhD
Justus Liebig University
Giessen, Germany

Jim Mann DM PhD FFPH FRACP
University of Otago
Dunedin, New Zealand

Hilary J Powers PhD RNutr
University of Sheffield, UK

K Srinath Reddy MD DM MSc
Institute of Medical Sciences
New Delhi, India

Elio Riboli MD ScM MPH
Imperial College London,
UK

Juan A Rivera PhD
Instituto Nacional
de Salud Publica
Cuernavaca, Mexico

* Arthur Schatzkin MD DrPH
National Cancer Institute
Rockville, MD, USA

Jacob C Seidell PhD
Free University Amsterdam
The Netherlands

David E Shuker PhD FRSC
The Open University
Milton Keynes, UK

Ricardo Uauy MD PhD
Instituto de Nutricion y Tecnologia de los Alimentos
Santiago, Chile

Walter C Willett MD DrPH
Harvard School of Public Health
Boston, MA, USA

Steven H Zeisel MD PhD
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Augmenting the Panel for the Policy Report
A substantial number of the Panel are public policy experts. For the Policy Report we also added three more Panel members with specific knowledge of the physical environmental, economic, social, and personal dimensions. The additional Panel members were:

Nick Cavill MPH
University of Oxford
UK
(physical activity)

Barry Popkin MSc PhD
Department of Nutition, SPH
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC, USA
(economics)

Jane Wardle MPhil PhD
University College London
UK
(psychology and health behaviours)
* - Arthur Schatzkin was a Panel member for the Expert Report and an Observer for the Policy Report.