Rate My Professor Janet Cade

Professor Janet Cade is Professor of Nutritional Epidemiology and Public Health in the School of Food Science and Nutrition at the University of Leeds, where she leads the Nutritional Epidemiology Group. She obtained her PhD from the MRC Environmental Epidemiology Unit in Southampton under the supervision of David Barker and holds a BSc. Her primary research areas encompass nutritional epidemiology, development of innovative dietary assessment tools such as myfood24—an online 24-hour dietary recall tool—nutritools.org, and the links between diet and chronic diseases. A key contributor to the UK Women's Cohort Study since its inception in 1995, she has advanced understanding of diet and cancer incidence in over 35,000 British women. As founder and director of Dietary Assessment Ltd., a University of Leeds spin-out, she promotes precise dietary analysis. Professor Cade has generated over £6 million in research income, mostly as principal investigator, and published more than 300 papers, abstracts, and book chapters. Prominent works include "Development, validation and utilisation of food-frequency questionnaires—a review" (Public Health Nutrition, 2002), "Costs of a healthy diet: analysis from the UK Women's Cohort Study" (Public Health Nutrition, 1999), and "Best Practice Guidelines for dietary assessment in health research" (BMC Medicine, 2017). Her scholarship boasts over 35,000 citations and an h-index of 94, ranking her among the top 2% of Stanford-cited scientists.

In her distinguished career, Professor Cade has served as Faculty Director of the Graduate School and was the inaugural Registrar of the Association for Nutrition. She advises the UK Committee on Toxicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment. Awards include one of the first Department of Health/NHS Career Scientist Awards for Public Health (2001-2006), Fellowship of the Association for Nutrition, and the British Nutrition Foundation Annual Prize (2025) for advancing nutritional epidemiology and food intake measurement. She has led projects like the evaluation of the Ministry of Food Schools programme, Growing Well Study on preschool nutrition, WHO collaborations on baby food, and the My Meal Mate app for weight management, significantly impacting public health nutrition.