Join the call

for international guidance on human rights and healthy diets

In October 2019, 180 leaders in global health and development made a call on Tedros Adhanom, Director General of the World Health Organization, and Michelle Bachelet, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, to lead the development of human rights guidance on healthy diets and sustainable food systems.

‍Published in the BMJ, the call requests the initiation of a process to develop guidance on human rights and healthy diets and outlines why a human rights approach to healthy diets is sorely needed to advance action on NCDs and health.

To support the realization of this call, the signatories have proposed a set of guiding documents.

Show your support for the call by adding your signature. Join the conversation by participating in our public forum which aims to provide a platform for discussion and debate about the call and explore the next steps required for its realization.

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SIGNATORIES TO THE BMJ OPINION CALLING FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF GUIDANCE ON human rights AND healthy diets

Kelley Lee

D.Phil, Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Global Health Governance, Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada

Nanna Lien

PhD, Professor in Public Health Nutrition, Department of Nutrition, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Natalia Linos

ScD, Executive Director, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

Bebe Loff

PhD, Director, Michael Kirby Centre for Public Health and Human Rights, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

Leslie London

MD, Chair, Public Health Medicine, University of Cape Town, South Africa

Peter Lurie

MD, MPH, President, Center for Science in the Public Interest, Washington, DC, USA

Martin McKee

DSc, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK

Jim Mann

DM, Professor of Medicine and Human Nutrition, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

Robert Marten

PhD, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK

Benjamin Mason Meier

PhD, Associate Professor of Global Health Policy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

J. Jaime Miranda

MD, PhD, CRONICAS Centre of Excellence in Chronic Diseases, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru

Khadija T. Moalla

PhD, Senior Policy and Program Advisor, UN Women, Baghdad, Iraq

Sofia Monsalve

M.P.S., Secretary General, FIAN International, Heidelberg, Germany

Rob Moodie

MBBS, MPH, Professor of Public Health, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

Carlos A. Monteiro

MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Nutrition, School of Public Health, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil

Michael Moore AM

Immediate Past President, World Federation of Public Health Associations (2016-2018); Distinguished Fellow, The George Institute for Global Health, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Moses Mulumba

LLM, Executive Director, Centre for Health, Human Rights and Development, Kampala, Uganda

Stefania Negri

PhD, Associate Professor of International Law; Director of the “Observatory on Human Rights, Bioethics, Health, Environment”, Department of Legal Sciences, University of Salerno, Fisciano, Italy

Feisul Idzwan Mustapha

MPH, Disease Control Division, Ministry of Health, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Marion Nestle

PhD, MPH, Paulette Goddard Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies and Public Health, Emerita, New York University, New York, USA

Nebojša Nikolić

MD, President, International Federation of Medical Students' Associations, Copenhagen, Denmark

Nicholas Nisbett

PhD, Leader, Health and Nutrition Research Cluster; Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, UK

Sania Nishtar

PhD, Special Assistant to the Prime Minister and Federal Minister for Poverty Alleviation and Social Protection, Islamabad, Pakistan

Robyn Norton

PhD, Principal Director, The George Institute for Global Health, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia and the University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

Obiajulu Nnamuchi

SJD, Associate Professor, Faculties of Law & Health Sciences, University of Nigeria (Enugu Campus), Enugu, Nigeria

Stineke Oenema

MSc, Coordinator, United Nations Standing Committee on Nutrition, Rome, Italy

Martin O’Flaherty

MD, MSC PhD, Professor of Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Policy, University of Liverpool, UK

Gorik Ooms

PhD, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK

Nicholas Wasonga Orago

LLD, School of Law, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya; IRC/Marie-Curie CAROLINE Research Fellow, University College Cork, Ireland

Loyce Pace

MPH, President and Chief Executive Officer, Global Health Council, Washington, DC, USA

Dineke Zeegers Paget

PhD, Executive Director, European Public Health Association, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Christine Parker

PhD, Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne, Australia

Raj Patel

PhD, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, The University of Texas at Austin, USA

Mark Petticrew

PhD, Chair of Public Health Evaluation, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK

Alexandra L. Phelan

SJD, Georgetown University Center for Global Health Science & Security and Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC, USA

Yogan Pillay

PhD, Deputy Director-General, National Department of Health, Pretoria, South Africa

Nana Poku

PhD, Vice-Chancellor and Principal, Executive Director, HEARD, University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

Barry M. Popkin

PhD, W.R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor of Nutrition, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

Stefano Prato

PhD, Managing Director, Society for International Development (SID), Rome, Italy

Dainius Puras

PhD, Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius University, UN Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, Vilnius, Lithuania

Mahesh C. Puri

PhD, Associate Director, Center for Research on Environment Health and Population Activities (CREHPA), Kathmandu, Nepal

Fauziah Rabbani

PhD, Associate Vice Provost, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan

Johanna Ralston

MA, CEO, World Obesity Federation, London, UK

Elisabetta Recine

PhD, Department of Nutrition, Observatory of Food and Nutrition Security Policies, University of Brasilia, Brazil

K. Srinath Reddy

MD, DM, MSc., President, Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi, India

Tim Reed

D Phil., Executive Director, Health Action International, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Belinda Reeve

PhD, Senior Lecturer, Sydney Law School, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

Archangel Rukooko

PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, School of Liberal and Performing Arts, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

Peter Milton Rukundo

PhD, Lecturer, Department of Human Nutrition and Home Economics, Kyambogo University, Kampala, Uganda

Harry Rutter

MB BChir, Professor of Global Public Health, University of Bath, UK

T. Alafia Samuels MBBS

MPH, PhD, Honorary Professor, Caribbean Institute for Health Research, University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica

David Sanders

DSc, School of Public Health, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa

Thomas Schwarz

MA, Executive Secretary, Medicus Mundi International Network, Basel, Switzerland

Jacob C. Seidell

PhD, Professor of Nutrition and Health, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Geordan Shannon

PhD, Research Fellow, Institute for Global Health, University College London, London, UK; Co-Founder, Global Health Disrupted

Janani Shanthosh

PhD, Health and Human Rights Programme, Australian Human Rights Institute and Research Fellow, The George Institute for Global Health, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Katherine Shats

LLM, Associate Legal Director, Global Health Advocacy Incubator, Washington, DC, USA

Michel Sidibe

MA, Minister of Health, Bamako, Mali

Sudhvir Singh

MD, Director of Policy, Eat Foundation, Stockholm, Sweden

Kristina Sperkova

MPsy, International President, IOGT International, Stockholm, Sweden

Karien Stronks

PhD, Professor of Public Health, Department of Public Health, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

David Stuckler

PhD, Professor, Department of Social and Political Sciences, University of Bocconi, Milan, Italy

Lucy Martinez Sullivan

MBA, Executive Director, Feed the Truth, Washington, DC, USA

Boyd Swinburn

MD, School of Population Health, University of Auckland, New Zealand

Sonja Tanaka

MPH, Global Coordinator, Global Health 50/50, Paris, France

Viroj Tangcharoensathien

PhD, Senior Advisor, International Health Policy Program, Ministry of Public Health, Nonthaburi, Thailand

Anne Marie Thow

PhD, Menzies Centre for Health Policy, School of Public Health and Charles Perkins Centre, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

Liv Elin Torheim

PhD, Department of Nursing and Health Promotion, Oslo Metropolitan University, Oslo, Norway

Colin Tukuitonga

D.S.M., MIPH, Secretary-General, Secretariat of the Pacific Community, Noumea, New Caledonia, France

Remco van de Pas

MD, Lecturer in Global Health, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Frans Viljoen

LLD, Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

Margareta Wandel

PhD, Professor Emeritus, Department of Nutrition, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Chenguang Wang

PhD, Professor of Law, Director of Health Law Research Center, Law School, Tsinghua University, China

Attiya Waris

PhD, Professor of Fiscal Law and Policy; Chair, Committee on Fiscal Studies, School of Law, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya

Douglas Webb

PhD, United Nations Development Programme, New York, NY, USA

Martin White

MD, FFPH, Professor of Population Health Research, Centre for Diet & Activity Research, MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, UK

Richard Wilkinson

M.Med.Sci, Emeritus Professor of Social Epidemiology, University of Nottingham Medical School, Nottingham, UK

Chuan-Feng Wu

SJD, Institutum Iurisprudentiae, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

Alicia Ely Yamin

JD, MPH, Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology and Bioethics, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, USA

Shamiso Philomina Zinzombe

PhD, Independent researcher on Health and International Human Rights Law, Member, Amnesty International Southern Africa Regional Office's Advisory Council on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Harare, Zimbabwe

Show your support by adding your name to the list of public signatories. Below is the list of signatures from the public since the publication of the call.

additional signatures calling for the DEVELOPMENT OF GUIDANCE ON human rights AND healthy diets

Sharmila Mhatre

Deputy Director

Open Society Foundations

FRANK ATEGEKA

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

RURAL AID FOUNDATION

Cosmas Rongoti

Director

Shanduko Yeupenyu Child Care

Tunde Fakunle

Executive Director

Centre for Sustainable Access to Health in Africa

AKWETEIREHO AMIRI

CEO

KAPOTEC FOUNDATION UGANDA

Paul Tschurtschenthaler

Senior Relationship Manager

Fairmed

Public Health Update

Initiator

Public Health Update

Miguel Ángel Royo Bordonada

Professor

Spanish National School of Public Health

Shiv Chandra Mathur

Independent consultant

Public Health

Carolina Mejia Toro

RD, Master Student MA Human Rights and Governance

Univesity of Padova

Abigail Derkyi-Kwarteng

Senior Resident

Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons

Neethi V Rao

Research Fellow

Azim Premji University

Abigail Derkyi-Kwarteng

Senior Resident

Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons

Dr. Khaleda Islam

Advisor

ARK Foundation

MATHIEU TCHETCHE

HEALTH SOCIOLOGIST, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

UNIVERSITY ALASSANE OUATTARA-BOUAKE

Mohamed Lafi

Public Information and Advocacy Officer

WHO

Godfrey Philimon

Country Coordinator

People's Health Movement Tanzania (PHM Tanzania)

Taufique Joarder

Executive Director

Public Health Foundation, Bangladesh

Diaka Jules Alexis

Focal Point Iristick/Smart Glasses

Memisa Belgique

Gillian MacNaughton

JD, DPhil, Associate Professor of Human Rights

School for Global Inclusion and Social Development, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA

Monica Kinyanjui

Founder

Women for Dementia Africa

Francesca Riolo

Scientific Officer

European Food Safety Authority

Judith Bueno de Mesquita

Deputy Director

Human Rights Centre, University of Essex

Joy Parkinson

PhD, Research Director, Social Marketing @ Griffith, Griffith Business School

Griffith University, Australia

Citta Widagdo

Doctoral Researcher

University of Birmingham

Dr Vincent Okungu

Senior Lecturer

University of Nairobi

Fiona McKenzie

Program Manager

QCWA Country Kitchens

Rachel J Thompson

Policy fellow

World Obesity Federation

Jeffrey O'Malley

Adjunct Professor

University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine

Peter Delobelle

Senior Researcher

Chronic Disease Initiative for Africa

Minakshi Dahal

Research Officer

Center for Research on Environment Health and Population Activities (CREHPA)

Nalini Saligram, Ph.D.

Founder & CEO

Arogya World

Emmy Fuentes

Epidemiologa

Issste

Jessie Pullar

Nutrition and NCD Consultant

United Nations System Standing Committee on Nutrition

Matthew Hopcraft BDSc MDSc BA PhD

Associate Professor

Melbourne Dental School, The University of Melbourne, Australia; SugarFree Smiles, Melbourne, Australia

Jesús Angel Padilla Gámez

Catedrático en Nutrición Clínica

Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila

Isobel Stanley

Researcher, public health

University College Dublin

Maria Aurora Mejia Benitez

Scientific Researcher

University

Meri Koivusalo

Professor of Global Health and Development

Tampere University

Jordan Jarvis

DrPH Student

LSHTM

Kate Sheffer

Forum Programme Manager

NCD Alliance

Alex Godoy-Faúndez

Associate Professor

Universidad del Desarrollo

Sinead Boylan

Research Fellow

The University of Sydney

Joyce Haddad

Dietitian

A Dietitian's Mission

Ana Victoria Mmonreal Lugo

Ana Karen Juárez

Dietitian

Karenutri

Patricio V Márquez

Lead Public Health Specialist (retired)

World Bank Group (retired)

Eduardo Thébar Gómez

Professor

Autonomous University of Guerrero

Ibeth Johanna Garcés Ruiz

Salubrista

Profesional de salud Independiente

Paula Izazil Juárez

Nutriologa

Tu equilibrio

Karla Elizabeth Flores Guzmán

Student

UNAM

María del Carmen Gangotena

Director

Nutrición Consciente

Kattya Brenes Gutiérrez

Jefe Area Técnica

CEN-CINAI

Leonardo Javier Salvador Del Águila

Dietista-Nutricionista

WeDoctor

José Carrillo

Director

Centro de Medicina Regenerativa Querétaro AC

Laura Patricia Arellano Gómez

Director

ITESO

Guadalupe Ruiz Vivanco

Professor

BUAP, Faculty of Medicine

Kaveri Qureshi

Lecturer in Global Health Equity

University of Edinburgh

Kashmira Sher Ali Nanji

Self

Epidemiologist/Biostatistician

Dr Rosemary Stanton OAM

Visiting Fellow, School of Medical Sciences

University of New South Wales, Australia

Alexandra Jones

Research Fellow (Food Policy and Law)

The George Institute for Global Health

Sérgio Filipe Soares Pedro

Member Department of Ecology and Society

Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Coimbra

Patricio V Marquez

Lead Public Health Specialist (retired)

World Bank Group

Andrew Thorne-Lyman

Associate Scientist

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Mariana Rodriguez

Student

CENTROGEO

Adrian French

Member

Cambridge Commons

Noemi Leyva Duarte

Nutrióloga

Nutriologa

Maria Shinai Cabanas Rodriguez

Academic

Maria Shinai Cabañas Rodriguez / México, Puebla, Teziutlan

Kirsteen Shields

Assistant Professor

University of Edinburgh

Dulce

MIEMBRO

Slow Food

Catalina A. Denman

Academic

El Colegio de Sonora

Evelia Apolinar Jiménez

Clinical Researcher

Regional High Speciality Hospital of Bajío

Marly Augusto Cardoso

Professor of Nutritional Epidemiology and Public Health

University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Dirce Maria Lobo Marchioni

Associate Professor

University of Sao Paulo

Rosana Nogueira

Nutricionista

Universidade de São Paulo

Serena Pepino

Right to Food Policy Expert

United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

Kristine Onarheim PhD

Research Fellow

University College London

Immanuel Azaad Moonesar PhD, RD

Associate Professor- Health Administration & Policy

Mohammed Bin Rashid School of Government, Dubai, UAE

Rafael Almendra-Pegueros

Research Assistance

Universidad Autonoma de San Luis Potosi

Vivica Kraak, PhD, RDN

Co-author, Lancet Global Syndemic report and Assistant Professor of Food and Nutrition Policy

Dept of Human Nutrition, Foods, and Exercise, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA

Aydin Nazmi

Professor

California Polytechnic State University

Elena Leticia Peraza Covarrubias

Nutritionist

Centro de Investigación y Gastroenterología

Alejandra Armenta Espinosa

Member Research Ethics Committee

INCMNSZ

Mathilde Høgh Prestbakmo

MA Student Public Health Nutrition

OsloMet

Oscar Alexis Estrada Gómez

Student

Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública

Stefanie Vandevijvere

Scientist

Scientific Institute of Public Health

Michelle Haby

Professor

University of Sonora

Maria Isabel Valero Morales

Research assistant

Instituto Nacional de Salud Publica México

Anna Purdie

Programme Manager

Global Health 50/50, UCL Centre for Gender and Global Health

Anne Lene Løvhaug

M.Sc. Public Health Nutrition

Oslo Metropolitan University

Denise Costa Coitinho Delmue

Senior consultant on nutrition and food systems

UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

James Uhrig

Independent Consultant

Eftychia Kotronia

PhD

Newcastle University

Priscila Machado

Research Fellow

Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition, Deakin University

Dr Sarah Gerritsen

Research Fellow

University of Auckland

Charlotte Marchandise

Deputy Mayor / President

City of Rennes / WHO Healthy Cities Network

Lucinda Westerman

Policy and Campaigns Manager

NCD Alliance

Kristof Decoster

Editor International Health Policies newsletter

ITM

Helen Walls

Associate Professor

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Aaron Schwid

Director of Public Health Law

Vital Strategies