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  • Transforming School Food Politics around the World

    Transforming School Food Politics around the World The PHUN team were proud to work with Rachel Engler-Stringer, the late Sinikka Elliott and community collaborators on an important chapter about Centring Children, Health and Justice at the Core of Canadian School Food Programs in the new book Transforming School Food Politics Around the World which tackles […]

  • The Hungry Stories Project

    The PHUN group is proud to be part the Hungry Stories (https://hungrystories.ca/) project. Congratulations to Hungry Stories contributor Dian Day on the publication of an important new paper in the Canadian Food Studies journal titled “Food insecurity in books for children; A qualitative content analysis (https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v11i1.654)”.Together, we can tell better stories and build better solutions […]

  • Rachel Mazac contributes a chapter in the new Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Diets.

    PHUN alumni Rachel Mazac contributes a chapter in the new Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Diets titled “A framework for integrating sustainability in international food-based dietary guidelines”  

  • PHUN Team featured in Canadian Food Studies Journal: Unwrapping School Lunch

    Drs Black, Mazac, Heckelman, and Elliott have been featured in the July 2022 issue of the Canadian Food Studies Journal. Their article examines the social dynamics and caring relationships that play out during school lunch. Read the article here   

About Us

The Public Health and Urban Nutrition (PHUN) research group is directed by Dr. Jennifer Black and is housed in the Food, Nutrition and Health Program at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.

Our research aims to improve understanding of the complex social and contextual factors that shape the health of individuals, communities and of the environment. Using both quantitative and qualitative methodologies, we pursue research that focuses on neighborhood food environments, school health and food systems research and understanding the impact of community food programs. We collaborate with community organizations, government partners and local health authorities to make sure our research is informing and is informed by priority questions and challenges facing North American cities.

Our team includes researchers and trainees with diverse educational backgrounds and specialized training in the areas of nutrition and dietetics, epidemiology, economics, geography, and public health.

 

Illustration by Lay Hoon Ho from Chromatic: Ten Meditations on Crisis in Art and Letters 

 

 

 

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