Professor Barry Popkin
W. R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Nutrition, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Barry M. Popkin developed the concept of the Nutrition Transition and also that of the double burden of malnutrition.
He is actively involved in work on the program and policy design and evaluation in an attempt to reduce demand for unhealthy food and increase that for healthy minimally processed and real food.
He has published over 660 refereed journal articles and PLOS rated him as one of the top cited scholars in the world among 7 million scholars in 2017 (rated number 203 out of 6.8 million or in the top 0.003% scientists in the world; H-194; citations 226,759).