Dr Wan Manan is presently a Professor of Nutrition & Public Health at the Graduate School of Public Health, Alma Ata University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. He was Professor of Nutrition & Public Health in Universiti Sains Malaysia where he served for 34 years until his retirement in January 2017. He then became a Visiting Professor at Kyoto University, Japan and later a Visiting Senior Fellow, Khazanah Research Institute (KRI), Kuala Lumpur. He is currently the Chairperson of Hak Dapat Makanan Malaysia - HADAM (Right to Food Malaysia) and an Executive Committee of the World Public Health Nutrition Association (WPHNA). His areas of interest are food security, social determinants of health and nutrition, and issues in higher education. He has more than 150 scientific and academic publications in peer reviewed journals and 30 books and chapter in books.
Dr Wan Manan is an ISAK accredited Level 3 Anthropometrist since 2000, and also an Accredited Photoscopic Somatotype Rater. Currently a fellow of Nutrition Society of Malaysia, and International College of Nutrition. Dr Wan Manan was previously the president of Universiti Sains Malaysia Academic Staff Association and Malaysian Academic Movement for more than a decade and participated actively in academic activism in Malaysia over the last 30 years.
He was an Asia Leadership fellow of the International House of Japan in 1996, Nippon Foundation Asian Public Intellectual fellow in 2004/2005, JSPS fellow at the University of Tokyo 1995 & 1997, and have been visiting professors at Gadjah Mada University, Sam Ratulangi University, University of the Philippines - Manila, Mahidol University, Chulalongkorn University, and Prince of Songkla University – Pattani.
Dr Wan Manan received his baccalaureate degree from Macalester College (St.Paul, Minnesota), an M.Sc from Rush University (Chicago, Illinois), a master degree in nutrition education and doctoral degree in nutrition & public health from Columbia University, New York in 1984, and a postgraduate certificate from Uppsala University in 2002.
