FNEHIN - First Nations Environmental Health Innovation Network

Expertise:

Food use and consumption, Nutrition, Nutritional Health Status of Indigenous People, Traditional food sources of Indigenous Peoples, Nutrient composition and composition databases of foods used by Indigenous Peoples.

Focus:

Traditional food resources of Indigenous Peoples, including research in partnership with indigenous communities to identify food resources (both wild and cultivated) and to define how traditional food is prepared and/or preserved, and to determine factors influencing food use and patterns of consumption; Laboratory analyses of traditional food resources using to quantitatively define the extent of use of these resources in parallel with food imported through market networks; Assessing nutritional health status of Indigenous Peoples and defining determinants of status; Development of health promotion materials with native people for their use; Food composition studies in collaboration with CINE staff include nutrients and contaminants, particularly organochlorines and heavy metals.

Affiliations:

Emerita Professor of Human Nutrition, McGill University. Founding Director, Centre for Indigenous Peoples, Nutrition and Environment (CINE), School of Dietetics and Human Nutrition, McGill University

Academic Supervisor (if Applicable)

Research Area(s)

Food

Geographical Preference(s)

British Columbia, Quebec, Yukon, Arctic Canada, several international areas of Indigenous Peoples’ locations outside of Canada

Projects

• Effectiveness of a community intervention program on food security and dietary quality
• Community initiative in country food health promotion in Pangnirtung
• Inuit Health Survey: Inuit health in transition and resiliency
• Indicators for health promotion with indigenous peoples: A global health project
• Gwich'in traditional food for health
• Aguaruna and ingano food system interventions: Culture, environment and health
• Unique patterns of dietary adequacy in three cultures of Canadian Arctic indigenous peoples
• Local cultural animal food contributes high levels of nutrients for Arctic Canadian Indigenous adults and children
• Food security in Nunavut, Canada: barriers and recommendations
• Intervention with traditional food as a major source of energy, protein, iron, vitamin C and vitamin A for rural Dalit mothers and young children in Andhra Pradesh, South India
• Traditional and market food access in Arctic Canada is affected by economic factors;
• Indigenous peoples' food systems for health: finding interventions that work
• Indigenous harmony
• Body mass index may overestimate the prevalence of overweight and obesity among the Inuit
• Dietary nutrients and anthropometry of Dene/Metis and Yukon children
• Food use of Dene/Metis and Yukon children
• Promoting the nutritional and cultural benefits of traditional food systems of Indigenous People
• Estimation of traditional food intake in indigenous communities in Denendeh and the Yukon
• Age differences in vitamin A intake among Canadian Inuit
• Karat, pulque, and gac: three shining stars in the traditional food galaxy
• J. A. Hildes Award. Finding good things about health: a perspective for research with Arctic indigenous peoples.
• Effectiveness of a community intervention program on food security and dietary quality
• Community initiative in country food health promotion in Pangnirtung
• Inuit Health Survey: Inuit health in transition and resiliency
• Inuit dietary assessment
• Indigenous peoples' traditional food systems methods for Africa
• Indigenous peoples' food systems for health: 2006 case study partners' workshop