National Health and Medical Research Council

Dr Amanda Lee (Chair)

Associate Professor (Nutrition) at the University of Queensland

Guideline development

• 2003 edition of the Dietary Guidelines for Australian Adults and the Dietary Guidelines for Children and Adolescents in Australia
• NHMRC Nutrition in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples – an information paper (2000)

Consultancy

Nil

Affiliations or Associations

• Chair of the National Nutrition Network of Senior Jurisdictional Nutritionists
• Member of the Dietitians Association of Australia
• Member of the Public Health Association of Australia
• Representative of State and Territory jurisdictions on Steering Group for National Children’s Nutrition and Physical Activity Survey
• Member of the Queensland Premier’s Eat Well Be Active taskforce
• Honorary Senior Lecturer at the School of Environmental and Population Health, Griffith University
• Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Public Health, Queensland University of Technology

Research funding

Nil

Payments, gifts, gratuities, honoraria

Payment to Queensland Health (employer at time of committee activities) for lieu of time spent on the revision of the Dietary Guidelines (2 days per week for 12 months).

Public speaking or advocacy on the Dietary Guidelines

Participated in:

• DAA and PHAA Food and Nutrition Policy Forum, 18 June 2009
• Food Policy and Environment workshop organised by Horticulture Australia
• Australian Egg Corporation and Meat and Livestock Australia, 13 February 2009
• Food and Nutrition Policy 'Think Tank' sponsored by Dairy Australia 14 April 2009
• Food Policy and Environment workshop organised by Horticulture Australia
• Australian Egg Corporation and Meat and Livestock Australia, 23 July 2009; 7 December 2009

Speaking roles:

• On food security in Australia and participated on a panel at the National Food Sustainability Summit on the 5-6th April 2011 in Melbourne.

Other relevant financial interests

Nil

Professor Colin Binns (Deputy Chair)

1. Co-Director at the Western Australian Centre for Health Promotion Research

2. Professor at Curtin University

3. Visiting Professor of Kagawa Nutrition University

4. Visiting Professor of Inje University School of Public Health

Guideline development

• Consultant to the Ministry of Health, Singapore on the development of their dietary guidelines, adults and children.
• Consultant to WHO on infant feeding
• Co-author of a book on infant feeding Guidelines published in China

Consultancy

Nil

Affiliations or Associations

• Nutrition Society of Australia
• Asia Pacific Consortium for Public Health
• International Society for Research into Human Milk and Lactation
• Uniting Church
• RACGP
• RACP

Research funding

Nil

Payments, gifts, gratuities, honoraria

Nil

Public speaking or advocacy on the Dietary Guidelines

Has given hundreds of lectures where he has quoted and supported the Australian Dietary Guidelines in all of their versions.

Other relevant financial interests

Nil

Professor Sandra Capra

1. Professor of Nutrition
Faculty of Health Sciences
University of Queensland; and
2. Conjoint Professor of Nutrition and Dietetics
University of Newcastle

Guideline development

NHMRC committee member who advised on the development of the 2006 Nutrient Reference Values

Consultancy

Nil

Affiliations or Associations

• Employed by the University of Queensland, which has an interest in the dietary guidelines.
• Employed by Queensland Health during 2010-201, which has an interest in nutrition research and practice.
• Chair of Board of Directors of the international Confederation of Dietetic Associations, where there is an interest in harmonising standards for nutrition and dietetics, including food guidance systems.

Research funding

Undertakes research in a wide set of contexts (and receives funding for this research) over many years.

A large amount of applied nutrition research alludes to or directly uses the dietary guidelines.

Payments, gifts, gratuities, honoraria

Nil

Public speaking or advocacy on the Dietary Guidelines

• Speaks on nutrients, foods, food groups, dietary guidance, and dietary guidelines as part of core business as a nutrition professional and academic.
• Teaches public health nutrition and menu planning at a University level, which includes discussions on the use of NRVs, dietary guidelines and food modelling systems.
• Has spoken regularly at a local and international level on NRVs and food modelling systems.
• Provides professional development to dietitians on NRVs and food modelling systems.
• Has provided advice and interpretation for written materials being prepared by groups or agencies aimed at the public or segments of the public, including advice that the dietary guidelines are under review and that materials based on the current version may require updating.

Other relevant financial interests

Nil

Professor Peter Davies

1. Director of Research, School of Medicine, University of Queensland

2. Director, Children’s Nutrition Research Centre, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Queensland

Guideline development

Reviewer, NHMRC Research Grant Applications

Consultancy

Nil

Affiliations or Associations

• Member, Merck-Serono Global Advisory Board, Geneva.
• Member, Interdisciplinary Maternal Perinatal Australasian Clinical Trial Network Committee
• Chair, Wyeth Steering Committee for the Effective Use of Post Discharge Formula in Premature Infants
• Chair, Bayer Advisory Board 2008 to date
  Hon, Secretary. Nutrition Society of Australia
• NHMRC Dietary Guidelines Working Committee
• Member Food Standards Australia New Zealand, Infant and Young Child Scientific Advisory Group
• Member, Scientific Advisory Group for Life Measurement Instruments, USA
• National Scientific Adviser to the Prader-Willi Syndrome Association of New Zealand
• Chair, Professional Advisory Board of Prader-Willi Association of Australia
• Member, Board of Studies of Faculty of Natural Resources, Agriculture and Veterinary Science
• Scientific adviser to the Prader-Willi Syndrome Association Queensland
• Chair, School of Medicine Research Committee, University of Queensland
  Member, Research Committee of School of Nursing, University of Queensland
• Expert Adviser to Growth Hormone Advisory Committee of the Australasian Paediatric Endocrine Group
• Member of editorial boards for the International Journal of Obesity, International Journal of Body Composition Research, Annals of Human Biology (2004 to date) and Acta Paediatrica
• Reviewer for Acta Paediatrica Scandinavica; American Journal of Clinical Nutrition; American Journal of Human Biology; Archives of Diseases in Childhood; Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine; Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism; European Journal of Clinical Nutrition; European Journal of Pediatrics; Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport; Journal of Paedaitics and Child Health; Nutrition; Pediatric Research; Pediatrics; Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology and Metabolism;
• Reviewer of grants for ARC Intereader (Expert assessor of international standing); HRC (New Zealand); NIH (USA); Auckland Medical Research Foundation, NZ; Lottery Health Research, NZ; National Heart Foundation;
   

Research funding

Nil

Payments, gifts, gratuities, honoraria

• Has received financial support to attend meetings for Nestle, Bayer, Nutrica, Danone, Wyeth, Pfizer, Ipsen, Novo Nordisk, Merck Serono.
• Has chaired Wyeth Steering Committee on the effective use of post discharge formula.
• Chaired a Bayer Committee of infant formula product design.
• His research group is in receipt of a PhD scholarship from Danone ($20,000 per year for three years)
• Has received an honorarium from Wyeth for presentations and an honorarium from Merck Serono as chair of their global advisory baord on drug compliance.
• Peter's research group will receive a non-specific grant of $25,000 from Nestle Nutrition Institute (NNI) in return for his time.  NNI will also be paying for travel and any accommodation costs.

Public speaking or advocacy on the Dietary Guidelines

• Agreed to take part in 5 Nutrition Update Days jointly run by NNI and Nutrition Society of Australia in 2011. 

Gave two talks at each venue 1) Infant Feeding and later outcomes 2) Nutrition in pregnancy, getting the best outcomes. 

• Gave talks to either paediatricians and/or other health professionals at NNI sponsored event on 5 occasions in 2011 entitled 'Infant feeding and later outcomes'. 

Other relevant financial interests

Nil

Dr Sharon Friel

1. Fellow at the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Australian National University

2. Principal Fellow, World Health Organisation Global Commission on Social Determinants of Health, University College London.
 

Guideline development

Nil

Consultancy

Nil

Affiliations or Associations

Nil

Research funding

Nil

Payments, gifts, gratuities, honoraria

Nil

Public speaking or advocacy on the Dietary Guidelines

Nil

Other relevant financial interests

Nil

Ms Clare Hughes

Nutrition Program Manager, Cancer Council NSW

Guideline development

Nil

Consultancy

Nil

Affiliations or Associations

The Cancer Council:

• Supports the development of dietary guidelines
• Has position statements on a number of foods or nutrients and their association with risk of certain cancers.

Research funding

Nil

Payments, gifts, gratuities, honoraria

Nil

Public speaking or advocacy on the Dietary Guidelines

• Has not directly published, spoken on, advocated or publically debated the topic of the Australian Dietary Guidelines
• Has on a number of occasions referred to the existing dietary guidelines and the Australia Guide to Healthy Eating in presentations, consumer publications and media communications in Cancer Council NSW role.
• This was not a critique of the guidelines but communication of existing content.

Other relevant financial interests

Nil

Associate Professor Mark Lawrence

Associate Professor on Public Health Nutrition,
School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences,
Deakin University

Guideline development

Was a participant in the review of the Australia and New Zealand Nutrient Reference Values (2006)

Consultancy

Nil

Affiliations or Associations

Nil

Research funding

Nil

Payments, gifts, gratuities, honoraria

Nil

Public speaking or advocacy on the Dietary Guidelines

Regularly teaches and presents on food policy topics. This includes speaking about the history and purpose of the dietary guidelines.

Other relevant financial interests

Nil

Dr Dorothy Mackerras

1. Chief Public Health Nutrition Advisor at Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ)

2. Honorary Adjunct Principal Research Fellow, Menzies School of Health Research

 
3. Honorary Adjunct Professor, University of Queensland.

Guideline development

A working committee member for the NHMRC Statement on Iodine Supplementation for pregnant and breastfeeding women

Consultancy

Nil

Affiliations or Associations

A member of the Member of the Nutrition Society of Australia

Adjunct Professor, University of Queensland

Research funding

Nil

Payments, gifts, gratuities, honoraria

Payment from National Health and Medical Research Council to FSANZ in lieu of time away from work for committee participation.

Public speaking or advocacy on the Dietary Guidelines

Has presented for a Masters of Public Health course on the modelling underpinning the Dietary Guidelines.

Other relevant financial interests

Nil

Dr Rosemary Stanton

Self employed nutritionist:

• lecturing to professional and public groups
• medical/nutrition writer
• general advice and consulting
• media consultation

Guideline development

Has contributed to a number of submissions from the Dietitians Association of Australia and the Public Health Association of Australia to FSANZ and the Department of Health and Ageing related to food labelling.

Consultancy

Received payment in 2010 to review a report that Dairy Australia had put together concerning weight loss and dairy products.

Received payment from Woolworths less than five years ago to develop their Fresh Foods advertising campaign, which promoted fruits and vegetables for children.

Has done work (expenses paid) with Adelaide University and the Waite Institute on their Food Futures program, and similarly with the Sustainable Futures Program at the University of Technology Sydney.

Affiliations or Associations

• Member of the scientific advisory committee for Doctors for the Environment.
• Member (and sometimes spokesperson) for the Public Health Association of Australia.
• Member of Nutrition Australia
• Member of the Dietitians Association of Australia
• Member of the Nutrition Society of Australia,
• Member of the Australia New Zealand Obesity Society

Gives nutrition advice from time to time (unpaid) to Choice, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and other various bodies. This advice may involve quoting the current version of the Dietary Guidelines.

Research funding

Nil

Payments, gifts, gratuities, honoraria

Nil

Public speaking or advocacy on the Dietary Guidelines

Writes for many magazines and newspapers

Have published books that occasionally mention the messages of the dietary guidelines or quote them.

Speaks to many public groups, and at conferences and radio programs, where the dietary guidelines are often mentioned.

Regularly uses the messages of the Dietary Guidelines as a model for giving nutrition advice.

Other relevant financial interests

Nil

Professor Linda Tapsell

1. Director, National Centre of Excellence in Functional Foods:
a joint venture between CSIRO, FSA, DPI-V and University of Wollongong, funded the National Food Industry Strategy, an initiative of the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry

2. Professor, Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences, University of Wollongong, NSW.

Guideline development

Summarised symposia meetings (with other speakers) on:

• Healthy Agriculture, Healthy Nutrition, Healthy Fitness (Member of the World Council on Genetics, Nutrition and Fitness, 2010)
• Nuts and dried fruit in health and disease (INC symposium, 2010)
• PMSEIC, DISSR: member of expert working group on Australia and Food Security in a Changing World.

Consultancy

• For various food entities - development of scientific reviews
• McCormick's Science Institute - science advisory committee
• Danone Institutes - nutrition awards committee
• California Walnut Commission - science advisory committee

Affiliations or Associations

• Fellow of Dietitians Association of Australia
• Member of the Nutrition Society of Australia
• Member of American Society for Nutrition
• Member of the American Dietetic Association
• Member of the World Council on Genetics, Nutrition and Fitness

Research funding

Research funding received from the following:

• Horticulture Australia Ltd
• California Walnut Commission
• ARC linkage projects funding (various food industry groups)
• Cereal Partners Worldwide
• Pork CRC
• NHMRC grants

Payments, gifts, gratuities, honoraria

Travel to meetings, meals and accommodation from:

• California Walnut Commission
• McCormick's Science Institute
• International Tree Nut Council
• NHMRC
• Dairy Australia
   

Honoraria from:

• McCormick's Science Institute
• Dietitians Association of Australia
   

Expert committee fees from:

• NHMRC
• ARC

Public speaking or advocacy on the Dietary Guidelines

Has spoken at conferences, symposia and seminars on a regular basis and the implications of research related to nutrition policy, such as the dietary guidelines.

Teaches in this area at a University level.

The Editor-in-Chief of the Nutrition and Dietetics journal, and writes regular articles that may have implications for the dietary guidelines.

Other relevant financial interests

Nil

Dr Geoffrey Annison

Scientific Advisor for the Australian Food and Grocery Council.

Guideline development

Intimately involved in development of AFGC tools used for nutritional advice and guidance such as the Daily Intake Guide front of pack labelling scheme.

AFGC views are also sought by other organisations developing nutrition and health guidelines, and has responsibility for developing and conveying those views, in conjunction with expertise within the AFGC membership.

Consultancy

Nil

Affiliations or Associations

The Australian Food and Grocery Council, as the peak representative body for the food manufacturing sector is a key stakeholder of the Dietary Guidelines and may or may not agree with some aspects of the approaches and content of the those Guidelines.

Research funding

Nil

Payments, gifts, gratuities, honoraria

Nil

Public speaking or advocacy on the Dietary Guidelines

Frequently speaks and writes about nutrition and health issues for the Australian Food and Grocery Council, including on the role of the Dietary Guidelines.

Other relevant financial interests

Nil