Susan Jebb

Susan Jebb
Government portrait, 2021
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Oxford, Food Standards Agency
Websitewww.phc.ox.ac.uk/team/susan-jebb

Susan Ann Jebb OBE is Chair of the United Kingdom's Food Standards Agency and Professor of Diet and Population Health at the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford.[1]

Career

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At the Dunn Clinical Nutrition Centre in the early 1990s, she worked with Sally Poppitt, where she became head of obesity research.[2] In 1997 she said 'alcohol in moderation can be good for you, but it must in moderation'.[3]

In 2008, Jebb was awarded an OBE for services to public health.[4] In 2015, she was criticised in an investigation by the British Medical Journal for her closeness to the sugar industry.[5] In 2018, she was appointed Fellow of the Medical Academy of Sciences.[6]

Jebb's research has suggested that a referral to commercial weight management weight loss programmes delivered in the community may be a cost-effective way to treat obesity in primary care.[7][8][9] Her more recent work has studied how our perception of portion size as normal or smaller than normal can affect the amount of food we eat, and how shoppers can be influenced to choose decreased salt alternatives at the grocery store.[10][11]

Jebb is a member of The Times Health Commission. In January 2023, her comments were the subject of some media attention after she appeared to compare bringing cake into the workplace to passive smoking.[12][13][14]

Personal life

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When at Cambridge, she lived in Steeple Morden, near Royston, Hertfordshire; she now lives in Shropshire.[15]

References

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  1. ^ "FSA Chair appointment".
  2. ^ Cambridge Daily News Thursday 29 April 1993, page 39
  3. ^ Shropshire Star Tuesday 2 September 1997, page 8
  4. ^ "FSA appoints scientist Professor Susan Jebb as new chair".
  5. ^ Gornall, J. (2015). "Sugar: Spinning a web of influence". BMJ. 350: h231. doi:10.1136/bmj.h231. PMID 25673325. S2CID 45177823.
  6. ^ "Professor Susan Jebb | the Academy of Medical Sciences".
  7. ^ Jebb SA, Ahern AL, Olson AD, Aston LM, Holzapfel C, Stoll J, Amann-Gassner U, Simpson AE, Fuller NR, Pearson S, Lau NS, Mander AP, Hauner H, Caterson ID (October 2011). "Primary care referral to a commercial provider for weight loss treatment versus standard care: a randomised controlled trial". Lancet. 378 (9801): 1485–92. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(11)61344-5. PMC 3207352. PMID 21906798.
  8. ^ Ahern AL, Wheeler GM, Aveyard P, Boyland EJ, Halford JCG, Mander AP, Woolston J, Thomson AM, Tsiountsioura M, Cole D, Mead BR, Irvine L, Turner D, Suhrcke M, Pimpin L, Retat L, Jaccard A, Webber L, Cohn SR, Jebb SA (June 2017). "Extended and standard duration weight-loss programme referrals for adults in primary care (WRAP): a randomised controlled trial". The Lancet. 389 (10085): 2214–2225. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(17)30647-5. PMC 5459752. PMID 28478041.
  9. ^ Astbury NM, Aveyard P, Nickless A, Hood K, Corfield K, Lowe R, Jebb SA (September 2018). "Doctor Referral of Overweight People to Low Energy total diet replacement Treatment (DROPLET): pragmatic randomised controlled trial". BMJ. 362: k3760. doi:10.1136/bmj.k3760. PMC 6156558. PMID 30257983.
  10. ^ Haynes A, Hardman CA, Makin AD, Halford JC, Jebb SA, Robinson E (March 2019). "Visual perceptions of portion size normality and intended food consumption: A norm range model". Food Quality and Preference. 72: 77–85. doi:10.1016/j.foodqual.2018.10.003. PMC 6333281. PMID 30828136.
  11. ^ Payne Riches S, Aveyard P, Piernas C, Rayner M, Jebb SA (February 2019). "Optimising swaps to reduce the salt content of food purchases in a virtual online supermarket: A randomised controlled trial". Appetite. 133: 378–386. doi:10.1016/j.appet.2018.11.028. PMC 6335438. PMID 30502442.
  12. ^ Rachel Sylvester; Chris Smyth; Kat Lay (19 January 2023). "Cake in the office should be viewed like passive smoking, obesity expert warns". The Times. Archived from the original on 19 February 2023. Retrieved 7 March 2023.
  13. ^ "Beyond cakegate: Why we need to consider the impact of our environment more seriously". Food Active. 30 January 2023. Retrieved 7 March 2023.
  14. ^ "FSA statement on The Times Health Commission". Food Standards Agency. 18 January 2023. Retrieved 7 March 2023.
  15. ^ Cambridge Daily News Wednesday 11 May 1994, page 29
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