(Note: the areas of expertise of each guideline group member are given in italics)
Ms Deena Alasfoor
Ministry of Health
Muscat, Oman
Health programme management, food legislations, surveillance in primary health care
Dr Beverley-Ann Biggs
International and Immigrant Health Group
Department of Medicine
University of Melbourne
Parkville, Australia
Micronutrients supplementation, clinical infectious diseases
Dr Héctor Bourges Rodríguez
Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Medicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubiran
Mexico City, Mexico
Nutritional biochemistry and metabolism research, food programmes, policy, and regulations
Dr Norm Campbell
Departments of Medicine
Community Health Sciences and Physiology and Pharmacology
University of Calgary
Calgary, Canada
Physiology and pharmacology, hypertension prevention and control
Dr Rafael Flores-Ayala
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Atlanta, United States of America
Nutrition and human capital formation, nutrition and growth, impact of micronutrient interventions
Professor Malik Goonewardene
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
University of Ruhuna
Galle, Sri Lanka
Obstetrics and gynaecology, clinical practice
Dr Junsheng Huo
National Institute for Nutrition and Food Safety
Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention
Beijing, China
Food fortification, food science and technology, standards and legislation
Dr Janet C. King
Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute
Oakland, United States of America
Micronutrients, maternal and child nutrition, dietary requirements
Dr Marzia Lazzerini
Department of Paediatrics and Unit of Research on Health Services and International Health
Institute for Maternal and Child Health
IRCCS Burlo Garofolo
Trieste, Italy
Paediatrics, malnutrition, infectious diseases
Professor Malcolm E. Molyneux
College of Medicine – University of Malawi
Blantyre, Malawi
Malaria, international tropical diseases research and practice
Engineer Wisam Qarqash
Jordan Health Communication Partnership
Johns Hopkins University
Bloomberg School of Public Health
Amman, Jordan
Design, implementation and evaluation of health communications and programmes
Dr Daniel Raiten
Office of Prevention Research and International Programs
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Bethesda, United States of America
Malaria, maternal and child health, human development research
Dr Mahdi Ramsan Mohamed
Research Triangle Institute (RTI) International
Dar es Salaam, the United Republic of Tanzania
Malaria control and prevention, neglected tropical diseases
Dr Meera Shekar
Health Nutrition Population
Human Development Network (HDNHE)
The World Bank
Washington, DC, United States of America
Costing of interventions in public health nutrition, programme implementation
Dr Rebecca Joyce Stoltzfus
Division of Nutritional Sciences
Cornell University
Ithaca, United States of America
International nutrition and public health, iron and vitamin A nutrition, programme research
Ms Carol Tom
Central and Southern African Health Community (ECSA)
Arusha, the United Republic of Tanzania
Food fortification technical regulations and standards, policy harmonization
Dr David Tovey
The Cochrane Library
Cochrane Editorial Unit
London, England
Systematic reviews, health communications, evidence for primary health care
Mrs Vilma Qahoush Tyler
UNICEF Regional Office for Central and Eastern Europe and Commonwealth of Independent States (CEE/CIS)
Geneva, Switzerland
Food fortification, public health programmes
Dr Gunn Elisabeth Vist
Department of Preventive and International Health
Norwegian Knowledge Centre for the Health Services
Oslo, Norway
Systematic review methods and evidence assessment using GRADE methodology
Dr Emorn Wasantwisut
Mahidol University
Nakhon Pathom, Thailand
International nutrition, micronutrient biochemistry and metabolism