Sumantra Ray

Sumantra Ray (also known as Shumone Ray) is a British physician and public health nutritionist. He is the Founding Chair, Chief Scientist and Executive Director of the NNEdPro Global Institute for Food, Nutrition and Health, an international nutrition research and education organisation headquartered in Cambridge, UK. He holds a fractional appointment as Full Professor of Global Nutrition, Health and Disease at Ulster University. In 2025, he was appointed Visiting Professor at King's College London.

From 2008 to 2010, Ray was an NIHR Public Health Fellow and Corfield Scholar at Selwyn College, Cambridge. From 2010 to 2018, he held a Senior Clinician Scientist position with the Medical Research Council in the United Kingdom. From 2019 to 2021, he was the Director of Research in Food Security, Health and Society at the University of Cambridge.

Ray has been a Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge.

BMJ Nutrition, Prevention & Health

In 2018, Ray co-founded BMJ Nutrition, Prevention & Health with the BMJ Publishing Group, serving as Founding Chair of the journal. The journal launched at the 4th NNEdPro International Summit in Cambridge.

Publications

Ray has published over 200 peer-reviewed scientific papers. He is the editor of:

Oxford Handbook of Clinical and Healthcare Research (Oxford University Press, 2016) Essentials of Nutrition in Medicine and Healthcare (Elsevier)

Awards and recognition

2013 — Josephine Lansdell Award, British Medical Association, for work in nutrition and cardiovascular prevention 2022 — Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior Program Impact Award (for the NNEdPro Mobile Teaching Kitchen Initiative)