Current trainees

Lesley Andrade
​BSc MHSc RD

PhD Candidate (2017 - present)

Research interests: population and public health, health equity, public health systems, healthy eating and nutrition policy, chronic disease prevention, healthy weights promotion and eating disorder/disordered eating prevention

Read about Lesley's public health nutrition research

Natalie Doan
​BAH MSc

PhD Student (2020 - present)

Research interests: intersectionality theory, health equity, prevention and early detection, dietary intake, eating habits, eating disorders, weight control, mental health, knowledge translation

Read Natalie's MSc thesis

Martin Holmes
​BA MA

PhD Candidate (2019 - present)

Research interests: food environments, food ethnographies, dietary assessment methods, population health, health promotion, environmental sustainability and health, social determinants of health, geomatics

Read Martin's MA thesis

Joy Hutchinson
​BASc MSc RD

PhD Student (2020 - present)

Research interests: dietary intake, population-level dietary assessment methods, household food security, nutritional epidemiology, pediatric nutrition

Read Joy's MSc thesis

Kirsten Lee
​BSc

PhD Candidate (2017 - present)

Research interests: food policy, food systems, food environments, environmental sustainability and health, health informatics, systems thinking and methods

Read about Kirsten's PhD thesis and SPHHS experience

Carolyn Minnick
​BPH

MSc Candidate (2019 - present)

Research interests: weight management, body image, eating disorders, dietary patterns, health promotion, health communication

Read a paper from Carolyn's undergraduate thesis

Alexandra Pepetone
BSc

PhD Student (2019 - present)

Research interests: food environments, eating disorders and disordered eating, calorie labelling, food insecurity, systems thinking

Tabitha Williams
BPH

MSc Candidate (2020 - present)

Research interests: plant-based dietary patterns, environmental sustainability and health, disordered eating, body image, health promotion, systems thinking, social determinants of health

Alumni

Amanda Raffoul
​BA MSc PhD

PhD (2016-2020)
MSc (2014-2016)

Current position:
Canadian Institutes of Health Research Postdoctoral Fellow
Strategic Training Initiative for the Prevention of Eating Disorders

Research interests: dieting/weight management, obesity, eating disorders, weight bias, body image, systems methods, women and adolescent health

Read Amanda's PhD thesis abstract

Miriam Price
​BSc MSc

Research Associate (2018-2019)
MSc (2016-2018)

Current position:
MScOT Student
University of Toronto

Research interests: ​​dieting and weight loss behaviours, mental health, eating pathologies, social media, health information seeking behaviours
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Read Miriam​'s MSc thesis

Michelle Marcinow
BSc MSc PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow (2016-2017)

Current position:
Research Associate
Institute for Better Health-Trillium Health Partners

Research interests: dietary assessment, determinants of health, motivators and barriers to adequate nutrient intake, relationships between diet and health, nutrition education, knowledge dissemination, mixed methods

Read Michelle's PhD thesis

Merryn Maynard
BA MSc

MSc (2014-2016)

Current position:
Social Impact and Research Specialist
Maple Leaf Centre for Action on Food Security 

Research interests: food insecurity, social determinants of health, health inequality, mental health, mixed methods

Read about Merryn's career journey

Read Merryn's MSc thesis