Following 9 years in the Medical Research Council, Dr Michael Nelson moved in 1985 to King\'s College London and was promoted to Reader in Public Health Nutrition in 2003. His main interests are diets of children, diet and poverty (including food budget standards), public health nutrition monitoring, and dietary assessment methodology. He chaired the Low Income Project Team for DoH, wrote the chapter on nutrition for the Acheson Inquiry into health inequalities, and is Principal Investigator (nutrition) in the FSA-funded national survey of diet in low income households (LIDNS).
In the last 2 years, his team at King\'s completed the studies on primary and secondary school meals in England. He is a member of the Caroline Walker Working Group on Nutritional Guidelines for School Meals (1992 and 2004) and in 2005 led the nutrition group of the Department for Education and Skills School Meals Review Panel. In April 2006, he began a 2 year secondment to the School Food Trust as Head of Research.
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