The Oration will be held annually, preferably at the time of the Annual meetings of the Society. The First Oration was held in January 1976.
The invitee for the Oration shall be an outstanding person from any part of the world, who is an expert of high caliber in the broad field of food and nutrition, including agriculture, economics, sociology, public health administration, etc.
The text of the Oration is published in the Proceedings of the Society.
| Year |
Recipients Name |
| 1977 |
Dr. D. B. Jelliffe World Trends in Infants Feeding |
| 1978 |
Dr. J. Cravioto Intersensory Integration as a Function of Nutrition and Stimulation |
| 1979 |
Dr. M. Behar National Nutrition Policy & Trace Elements and Metabolism. |
| 1980 |
Dr. M. S. Swaminathan Green Power and Freedom from Hunger. |
| 1981 |
Dr. V. M. Dandekar Measurement of Undernutrition |
| 1982 |
Dr. S. Varadarajan Technology for Better Nutrition |
| 1983 |
Dr. H. K. Jain Evolutionary March of Indian Agriculture |
| 1984 |
Dr. S. G. Srikantia Nutrition Adaptation in Man. |
| 1985 |
Dr. K. T. Achaya Invisible Fats Revised |
| 1986 |
Dr. V. Kurien Oils and Fats Beyond Nutrition. |
| 1987 |
Dr. R. K. Chandra Nutrition Immunity and Clinical Outcome |
| 1988 |
Dr. Anand S. Prasad Human Zinc Deficiency |
| 1989 |
Dr. J.V.G.A. Durnin Is Satisfactory Energy Balance Possible on Low Energy Intake ? |
| 1990 |
Dr. J. C. Waterlow A New Look at Protein-Energy Malnutrition - Controversies and Challenges. |
| 1991 |
Dr. Vernon R. Young Amino Acids Kinetics in Humans |
| 1992 |
Dr. M. C. Latham Alleviating Malnutrition in the developing countries of the World. |
| 1993 |
Dr. Nevin S. Scrimshaw Complementarities among foods and nutrients. |
| 1994 |
Dr. W.P.T. James Assessing Energy Need : Recent Advances |
| 1995 |
Dr. Florentino S Solon Food Fortification Programme Development in the Philippines |
| 1996 |
Dr. John D Potter Plant Foods and Cancer Risk - Science and Tradition |
| 1997 |
Dr. B. N. Tandon Nutrition Intervention in 2000 AD |
| 1998 |
Dr. Artemis P. Simopoulos Genetic variation and nutrition |
| 1999 |
Dr. R.S. Paroda Household Food and Nutritional Security through Advances in Agriculture |
| 2000 |
Dr. Gurdev S. Khush Strategies to meet the global food and nutrient needs in the New Millennium |
| 2001 |
Dr. B.S. Narasinga Rao Newer perspectives in energy nutrition and malnutrition and their relevance to India. |
| 2002 |
Dr. Chen Chunming Nutrition and Economic Development |
| 2003 |
Dr. Prakash Shetty Non-communicable diseases in developing societies: causes, costs and consequences |
| 2004 |
Prof. Mark L. Wahlqvist The New Nutrition Science : Solutions for Development |
| 2005 |
Dr. Shanti Ghosh For better health and nutrition, prioritise the young child |
| 2006 |
Prof. M.K. Bhan Preparing to Face the Challenge |
| 2007 |
Prof. Ricardo Uauy Nutrition Challenges for the 21st Century: The double burden of disease |
| 2008 |
Prof. John M Pettifor Vitamin D and Calcium Nutrition in Children in Developing Countries |
| 2009 |
Prof. K. Srinath Reddy Public health nutrition in India : Moving from science to policy and action |
| 2010 |
Prof. David Barker Nutrition in the Womb |
| 2011 |
Prof. Barry M Popkin The Global Dynamics of Diet, Activity and Body Composition: Rapid Shifts in the Stages of the Nutrition Transition |