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NNEdPro (The Need for Nutrition Education/Innovation Programme was established in 2008 as an academic group in Cambridge and following incorporation in 2015, became known as the NNEdPro Global Centre for Nutrition and Health. NNEdPro share their findings from their education and primary research projects with over 300 publications and over 100 presentations.

History
NNEdPro being formed in 2008 with Fellowship funding awarded by the National Institute of Health Research to two founding members in Cambridge, as well as an educational award from Abbott Nutrition to the BDA.

Sumantra (Shumone) Ray is the NNEdPro Founding Chair and Executive Director. The Honorary President is Lord Richard Balfe of Dulwich and Global Patron is Lord Diljit Rana, Baron Rana MBE of Malone.

The Board of Directors comprise Sumantra Ray, Pauline Douglas (Vice Chair and Education Director), Minha Rajput-Ray (Medical Director), Daniele Del Rio (Scientific Director) and Celia Laur (Associate Director).

Work
NNEdPro evolved from this single project through to a Global Centre for Nutrition and Health.

Another initiative is co-owning the Nutrition, Prevention & Health journal with the British Medical Journal. The journal is dedicated to publishing quality, peer reviewed articles that focus on diet, exercise and healthcare technology on health and wellbeing.

NNEdPro has produced an International Knowledge Application Network in Nutrition 2025 (I-KANN-25) to disseminate high quality and accessible medical nutrition education attaining sustained impact in global healthcare systems.

Linked models include the NEPHELP (Nutrition Education Policy for Health Practice) model, and the Mobile Teaching Kitchens (MTK) model.

Awards and honors
NNEdPro was the recipient the Complete Nutrition Outstanding Achievement Award in 2015 and they were Finalist and Runner Up for BMJ Education Team of the Year Awards in 2016.

In 2017, the British Dietetic Association (BDA) / NNEdPro Global Centre for Nutrition and Health was awarded the MNI Grant 2017, for their project "Nutrition Education Policy for Healthcare Practice".

In 2018, NNEdPro was part of the team to be a joint recipient of the "TIGR2ESS: Transforming India's Green Revolution by Research and Empowerment for Sustainable Food Supplies", as part of the Global Challenges Research Fund project.

In 2019, NNEdPro received the Education Team of the Year award by The BMJ.

Also in 2019, the NNEdPro Mobile Teaching Kitchen Project (Bhavishya Shakti Initiative) received the Highly Commended, Emerald Interdisciplinary Research Awards.