Methodology task force

The Methodology Task Force was the body responsible for formulating the scientifically sound process for assessing the literature on nutrition and cancer. It was responsible for making recommendations that were formulated into a systematic literature review specification manual by the Secretariat. The Panel approved the use of the methodology.

Members of the Methodology Task Force were:

Martin Wiseman FRCP FRCPath
Chair
Project Director
WCRF International

Sheila A Bingham PhD FMedSci
MRC Dunn Human Nutrition Unit
Cambridge, UK

Heiner Boeing PhD
German Institute of Human Nutrition
Berlin, Germany

Eric Brunner PhD FFPH
University College London
UK

H Bas Bueno de Mesquita
MD MPH PhD
National Health Institute of Public Health and Environment (RIVM)
Bilthoven, The Netherlands

David Forman PhD FFPH
University of Leeds, UK

Andreas J Gescher DSc
University of Leicester UK

Tim Key PhD
Cancer Research UK
Epidemiology Unit
University of Oxford
Oxford, UK

Jos Kleijnen MD PhD
Kleijnen Systematic Reviews
York, UK

Barrie Margetts MSc PhD MFPH
University of Southampton
UK

Gillian Reeves PhD
Cancer Research UK
Epidemiology Unit
University of Oxford
UK

Elio Riboli MD ScM MPH
Imperial College
London, UK

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

David E G Shuker PhD
The Open university
Milton Keynes, UK

Michael Sjostrom MD PhD
Karolinska Institute
Stockholm, Sweden

Pieter van't Veer PhD
Wageningen University
The Netherlands