Caroline Walker (food campaigner)
Caroline Leoni Walker | |
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| Born | 12 June 1950 Liss, Hampshire, England |
| Died | 22 September 1988 (aged 38) |
| Alma mater | Queen Elizabeth College (now King's College London) and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. BSc, MSc |
| Known for | Food campaigning |
| Awards | Woman of the Year, 1985 Rosemary Delbridge Memorial Trust Trophy (posthumous), 1989 |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Nutritionist, campaigner, journalist, author |
| Institutions | Elsevier Scientific Publishing, 1973, 1975
MRC Epidemiology Unit, Cardiff, 1978–1980 MRC Dunn Clinical Nutrition Centre, Cambridge, 1980–1982 Nutritionist, City and Hackney Health Authority, 1983–1984 Nutrition director, City and Hackney Stroke Prevention Programme, 1984–1985 |
Caroline Walker (12 June 1950 – 22 September 1988) was a British nutritionist, writer, author and campaigner for better food, who died from cancer aged 38. After her death, the Caroline Walker Trust was established with a mission to "improve public health by means of good food".
At the 2019 annual Evening of Celebration for Walker and of the trust held at the Royal Society of Medicine in London, speaker Felicity Lawrence of The Guardian, a friend and colleague of Walker, said "She was the lodestar for campaigning around food and social justice that has guided me, and influenced countless others, ever since… She had a unique combination of erudition and academic ability with human warmth, and a gift for popular communication. She was a great phrase-maker, and a witty story-teller… She could simplify to communicate because she had such deep understanding of the science behind her subject. That was rare. And precious".