Human nutrition and dietetics

This class comprises research and experimental development in human nutrition and dietetics.
Parent Category
Sub-Categories
Clinical nutrition
Sports nutrition
Dietetics and nutrigenomics
Nutritional physiology
Public health nutrition policy
Human nutrition and metabolism
Human nutrition and dietetics, n.e.c.
 
 
 
 

UBC Researchers conducting research in Human nutrition and dietetics

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Black, Jennifer

Food, Nutrition & Health, Faculty of Land and Food Systems

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Human nutrition and dietetics; Community Health / Public Health; food banks; food environments; Nutrition; Public health; school food environments; social determinants of health

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Ceolin, Gilciane

Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences

Postdoctoral Fellow

Human nutrition and dietetics; Gender studies; Nutritional Epidemiology; Healthy Aging; mental health; social determinants of health

Conklin, Annalijn

Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Public health nutrition policy; Other basic medicine and life sciences; Social Determinants of Dietary and Metabolic Disorders; social nutritional epidemiology; women's health; Health Equity; Chronic Diseases in Elderly; Obesity; CVD risk factors; healthy ageing; food and nutrition policy; Indigenous health; Community Health / Public Health; disease management evaluation; healthcare quality improvement

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Devlin, Angela

Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Human nutrition and dietetics; Human reproduction and development sciences; Pathology (except oral pathology); cardiovascular disease; Children; developmental programming; Diabetes; Obesity

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Huan, Tao

Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Bioinformatics, n.e.c.; Analytical spectrometry; Metabolomics; Separation science; Cancer progression and metastasis; Human nutrition and metabolism; Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry; Machine Learning; Bioinformatics

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Jessri, Mahsa

Food, Nutrition & Health, Faculty of Land and Food Systems

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Human nutrition and dietetics; Community Health / Public Health; Epidemiology; Nutrition; Health Policies; Lifestyle Determinants and Health; Health Promotion; Health Prevention; Statistics and Probabilities; Preventive Medicine; Artificial Intelligence; Chronic Disease Prevention; clinical epidemiology; Dietary Assessment; Dietary Pattern Modeling; Dietetics; Machine Learning; Nutritional Epidemiology; predictive analytics; Public and Population Health; Simulation; Health Economics and Modeling

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Karakochuk, Crystal Dawn

Food, Nutrition & Health, Faculty of Land and Food Systems

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Human nutrition and dietetics; Nutrition; Global Health and Emerging Diseases; Hematology; Biochemical markers of iron status; Clinical dietetics; Determinants and causes of anemia; Inherited blood disorders (sickle cell, thalassemia, glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency); International nutrition; Maternal and child nutrition; Micronutrients (namely iron, folic acid, and zinc); Risk-benefit of micronutrient supplementation

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Lamers, Yvonne

Food, Nutrition & Health, Faculty of Land and Food Systems

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Human nutrition and dietetics; Nutrition; Nutrients; Biological and Biochemical Mechanisms; Breast Feeding and Infant Nutrition; Clinical Chemistry; Maternal and child health; Micronutrients; Newborn Screening; Nutritional Biochemistry; Nutritional Biomarker; Periconceptional folic acid supplementation; Pregnancy; Prenatal Supplements; Toddler Nutrition; Vitamins

Lunken, Genelle

Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Clinical nutrition; Human nutrition and dietetics, n.e.c.; Gastroenterology; Personalised nutrition therapies; Dietary fibre; Inflammatory bowel disease; Gut microbiome; Food additives

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McKendry, James

Food, Nutrition & Health, Faculty of Land and Food Systems

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Musculoskeletal biology and physiology; Health promotion and disease prevention; Aging process; Human nutrition and metabolism; Nutritional physiology; Clinical nutrition; Exercise physiology; Sports nutrition; Kinesiology; Skeletal Muscle; Protein metabolism; Aging; Nutrition; exercise; Sarcopenia; Protein; Muscle Disuse; Stable Isotope Tracers; Omics; Cell Culture; Microscopy

Middleton, Georgia

Faculty of Land and Food Systems

Faculty (non-G+PS member)

Public health nutrition policy; Children and families; Parenting and caregiving; Food and eating environments; Food insecurity; Shared eating occasions; Qualitative methodology and methods

Murphy, Rachel

School of Population and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Clinical oncology; Health sciences; Human nutrition and dietetics; Public and population health; Aging; Cancer prevention; Community Health / Public Health; Nutrition; Nutrition and Cancer; Obesity

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Zulyniak, Michael

Food, Nutrition & Health, Faculty of Land and Food Systems

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Human nutrition and metabolism; Population health interventions; Systems biology; Nutritional epidemiology; metabolic diseases; Pregnancy; gestational diabetes; type-2 diabetes; Metabolism; Genetics; health disparity; Nutrition; lifestyle; precision nutrition
 

Student & Alumni Stories in Human nutrition and dietetics

Brock Williams

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Human Nutrition (PhD)

Folic acid supplementation in children with sickle cell disease

Jordie Fischer

Student

Master of Science in Human Nutrition (MSc)

Benefits and potential harms of iron supplementation on iron status and gut inflammation in Cambodian women

Adelia Jacobs

Student

Master of Science in Human Nutrition (MSc)

Nutritional Epidemiology

Avril Metcalfe-Roach

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Microbiology and Immunology (PhD)

Interplay between diet and the microbiome in Parkinson's disease

Annie Lalande

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Resources, Environment and Sustainability (PhD)

Food as medicine: Transforming hospital food to improve patient satisfaction, health, and the environment

Lulu Pei

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Human Nutrition (PhD)

Efficacy and adverse side effects of two forms of iron in prenatal micronutrient supplements (EASE-Iron): A randomized controlled trial

Paula Pinzón Hernández

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Reproductive and Developmental Sciences (PhD)

Reducing women’s mortality through knowledge translation: closing the gaps between abortion care and public policy.

Cassi Sauer

Student

Master of Science in Human Nutrition (MSc)

Assessing the adherence and acceptability to iron and folic acid versus multiple micronutrient supplements during pregnancy: a cluster-randomized non-inferiority trial in Cambodia

Hadis Mozaffari

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Human Nutrition (PhD)

Examining the Impact of Dietary Diversity on Type 2 Diabetes

Alysha Deslippe

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Human Nutrition (PhD)

EATing in a GENdered world (EatGen): How teens involved in high school sports can be empowered to make informed food choices

Keisha Maloney

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Planning (PhD)

Navigating transitions: Remaking the planning engagement table with/by/for Indigenous peoples in Toronto (Tkaronto)
 

Program Specializations in Human nutrition and dietetics

Human Nutrition

Nutrition and Dietetics
 

Academic Units in Human nutrition and dietetics

Faculty of Land and Food Systems
 
 
French Name
Nutrition et diététique humaines
French Description
Cette classe comprend la recherche et le développement expérimental en nutrition et diététique humaine.
 
 

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