Winston Churchill Travelling Scholarship, 1987 MRC Epidemiology Unit, Cardiff, 1978–1980 MRC Dunn Clinical Nutrition Centre, Cambridge, 1980–1982 Nutritionist, City and Hackney Health Authority, 1983–1984 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.

[1] 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.

BSSRS was based, as was Friends of the Earth (FoE), in Joseph Rowntree Foundation funded offices at 9 Poland Street, near Soho, London.

[15] The background to the book was the official NACNE (National Advisory Committee on Nutrition Education) report on the British diet, of which Philip James was convenor and chief author.

NACNE was a committee of physicians and nutrition scientists commissioned by the British government to produce a report on food and health in the UK.

[16] The report was delayed and widely believed to have been suppressed for two and a half years, after lobbying from the food manufacturing industry and its representative organisations.

[16] NACNE's existence became public knowledge initially in a sensational front page lead news story by Geoffrey Cannon in The Sunday Times in June 1983.

[15] Walker said in a Granada TV special on The Great Food Scandal: "Under the new 1984 regulations meat products can now include entrails, eyeballs, snout, hide, hair, lips".

He wrote:In less than a year, between July 1985 and April 1986, the enlarged paperback edition of The Food Scandal was published; she was advisor to the BBC TV Food and Health campaign, and also to Granada TV and Thames TV, for a total of over thirty nationally networked programmes; wrote or co-wrote six booklets most of which accompanied television series, requested by a total of half a million viewers; was a Woman of the Year; advised and guided the Coronary Prevention Group, the London Food Commission and New Health magazine; co-founded the Food Additives Campaign Team, wrote a chapter for Additives: Your Complete Survival Guide, and shared the Periodical Publishers' Association prize for Campaign of the Year.

John Rivers of the School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine wrote in The Independent: “Caroline Walker was a radical who, by her passionate arguments, made market forces achieve her end’’.

[22] Felicity Lawrence wrote in The Daily Telegraph, for which Caroline was a columnist: “She was… a scientist who was able to convey complex information in layman’s terms and with great wit”.

[23] Philip James, then of the Rowett Research Centre, Aberdeen, wrote in The Guardian: “Where will we find a successor to this young, engaging, warm and immensely effective campaigner?”.

Its work has included producing reports on nutritional guidelines, and at its annual Evening of Celebration it features presentations by distinguished speakers and gives awards to those who have most successfully supported public health by means of good food (Caroline Walker Award winners have included Joanna Blythman, Sheila Dillon and Sophie Grigson).

[25] In her presentation at the trust's 2019 Evening of Celebration, Felicity Lawrence said: “Caroline would be thrilled to see this room full of young people working in the public interest, carrying on the good fight that she began”.