FNEHIN - First Nations Environmental Health Innovation Network

Expertise:

Epidemiology, nutrition,

Focus:

Nutrition Transition

Affiliations:

Department of Nutrition, Faculty of Medicine, Université de Montréal

Academic Supervisor (if Applicable)

Research Area(s)

Food

Geographical Preference(s)

Quebec, Yukon,

Projects

• Risk factors for moderate to severe anemia among children in Benin and Mali: insights from a multilevel analysis.
• 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.
• Malnutrition in developing countries
• Traditional and market food access in Arctic Canada is affected by economic factors.
• Human health implications of environmental contaminants in Arctic Canada: A review.
• Estimation of traditional food intake in indigenous communities in Denendeh and the Yukon.
• Impact of a diabetes prevention program on body size, physical activity, and diet among Kanien'keha:ka (Mohawk) children 6 to 11 years old: 8-year results from the Kahnawake Schools Diabetes Prevention Project.
• Age differences in vitamin A intake among Canadian Inuit.
• Correlates of diet quality in the Quebec population.
• Ecuadorian Andean women's nutrition varies with age and socioeconomic status.
• Arctic indigenous peoples experience the nutrition transition with changing dietary patterns and obesity.
• Mercury in the traditional diet of indigenous peoples in Canada.
• Fish-seafood consumption, obesity, and risk of type 2 diabetes: an ecological study.
• Comparison of the dietary intakes of two different groups of children (grades 4 to 6) before and after the Kahnawake Schools Diabetes Prevention Project.
• The contribution of breast milk to toddler diets in western Kenya
• Contribution of Selected Traditional and Market Foods to the Diet of Nunavik Inuit Women.
• Food Use and Nutrient Adequacy in Baffin Inuit Children and Adolescents.
• Traditional food systems research with Canadian Indigenous Peoples
• Prevalence of vitamin A deficiency in children aged 6-9 years in Wukro, northern Ethiopia
• Association between vitamin A status and lung function level in children aged 6--9 years in Wukro wereda, Northern Ethiopia
• Energy, fat and calcium in bannock consumed by Canadian Inuit
• Dietary intake and body mass index of adults in 2 Ojibwe communities
• Sources of bias in estimates of calcium and vitamin A intakes of indigenous peoples in the Northwest Territories, Canada.
• Consumption of freshwater fish in Kahnawake: risks and benefits.
• assessment of cadmium exposure in Fort Resolution, Northwest Territories, Canada
• Analysis of 24-hour recalls of 164 fourth- to sixth-grade Mohawk children in Kahnawake
• Population exposure to radioactivity from consumption of caribou among the Dene/M
• Dietary exposure to chemical contaminants from traditional food among adult Dene/M
• Anisnwabe Kenendazone: building from the Ottawa ACADRE
• Gwich'in traditional food for health