Sheila Rodwell OBE (née Harrison; March 7, 1947 – June 16, 2009), known professionally by her first married name Sheila Bingham, was a British nutritional epidemiologist known for conducting detailed studies into clarify the biological mechanisms underlying the effects of different diets on health and disease, especially cancer.
[1][2] Bingham was educated at Loughborough High School and graduated from Queen Elizabeth College with a BSc in Nutrition in 1968, and 1969 with a Postgraduate Diploma in Dietetics as dietitian.
After having worked as a hospital dietitian, Bingham became a research officer at the MRC Dunn Human Nutrition Unit.
She became deputy director of the MRC Dunn Human Nutrition Unit in 1997 and leader of the "Diet and Cancer" group.
She was honorary professor of Nutritional Epidemiology at the University of Cambridge and lifelong fellow at Clare Hall.