Research interests
My research program emphasizes healthy eating and youth. I have developed and evaluated electronic approaches to dietary assessment and applied them in school-based surveillance and as part of mixed methods evaluations of public/ community health program and policy interventions. For example, in collaboration with communities serving First Nations and Métis students and multi-disciplinary research and NGO partners, I am evaluating an initiative to enhance local healthy foods for schools. Other research explores Canadian recreation centre food environments and community-level determinants of maternal child health and nutrition in Africa.
Current research focus:
- evaluation of the process and outcomes of community level program and policy initiatives to support healthy eating for adolescents and children
- support for Indigenous people’s holistic health and wellbeing
- assessment of food and nutrient intakes and associated determinants
Teaching interests
- Nutrition
- Foods and health
- Nutritional aspects of chronic disease
Education
BASc Division of Applied Human Nutrition, University of Guelph
PhD Nutritional Sciences, University of Toronto
PDF Department of Pediatrics, McMaster University
Selected publications
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