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Research
Latest papers
Food deserts, food mirages, and gentrification in Toronto, Canada.
Health & place · 2025
Recreation Facility Food and Beverage Environments in Ontario, Canada: An Appeal for Policy.
International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021
Latest funding
- $10,000
Navigating complexity: A mixed methods study exploring how food environments shape intakes of ultra-processed foods among transitional aged youth
CIHR · 2026 · Principal investigator
- $558,451
Enhancing sociodemographic data in a province-wide electronic health record
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
- $15,000
Toward a National Strategy on Ultra-Processed Foods: Aligning Evidence, Classification, and Policy in Canada
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
2 publications.
Food deserts, food mirages, and gentrification in Toronto, Canada.
Menko P, Olstad D, Buttazzoni A, Minaker L
Recreation Facility Food and Beverage Environments in Ontario, Canada: An Appeal for Policy.
Caswell S, Naylor PJ, Olstad D, Kirk S, Mâsse L, Raine K, Hanning R
Navigating complexity: A mixed methods study exploring how food environments shape intakes of ultra-processed foods among transitional aged youth
Principal investigators: Prowse, Rachel; Ferdinands, Alexa R; Olstad, Dana Lee; Potvin Kent, Monique C; Vanderlee, Lana M
Keywords: Children And Youth; Commercial Determinants Of Health; Eating Behaviours; Equity; Food Environments; Food Literacy; Health Promotion; Participatory Research; Sugar-Sweetened Beverages; Ultra-Processed Food
Enhancing sociodemographic data in a province-wide electronic health record
Principal investigators: Tang, Karen L; Teare, Gary F
Keywords: Electronic Health Records; Mixed Methods; Social Determinants Of Health
Toward a National Strategy on Ultra-Processed Foods: Aligning Evidence, Classification, and Policy in Canada
Principal investigators: Christoforou, Anthea K
Keywords: Evidence-Informed Policy; Food Environments; Health Equity; Knowledge Mobilization; Nutrition Policy; Stakeholder Engagement; Ultra-Processed Foods
Marketing kids' food: Examining the power, nutritional quality and prevalence of child-targeted packaged foods in Canada
Principal investigators: Elliott, Charlene D
Keywords: Child; Child Health; Exposure; Food; Food Marketing; Food Packaging; Mobile App; Nutrition; Policy; Power
Co-developing a partnerships platform to disseminate community-led health equity research and knowledge mobilization
Principal investigators: Roach, Pamela Marie
Keywords: Health Equity; Population Health; Public Health Systems; Social And Structural Determinants Of Health
Nutrition and Precision Health Equity for Black People in Canada
Principal investigators: Salami, Bukola O; Gebremikael, Liben M; Henry, Carol J; Ospina, Maria B; Prado, Carla M
Keywords: African; Black; Caribbean; Health Equity; Nutrition; Precision Health
Does the British Columbia Farmers' Market Nutrition Coupon Program improve the diet quality and food security of parents and children with low incomes? A dose-response, pragmatic randomized controlled trial
Principal investigators: Olstad, Dana Lee; Campbell, David J; O'Hara, Heather; Sajobi, Tolulope T; Spackman, Eldon
Keywords: Adult Health; Child Health; Diet Quality; Farmers' Markets; Financial Subsidy; Food Insecurity; Low-Income Households; Parent-Child Dyads; Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trial; Women'S Health
How does socioeconomic position become biologically embedded? A cross-national comparison of associations between socioeconomic position and epigenetic aging in middle-aged and older adults in Canada and the US
Principal investigators: Olstad, Dana Lee; Verschoor, Chris P
Keywords: Biological Aging; Cross-National Comparison; Cross-Sectional Study; Epigenetic Aging; Epigenetic Clocks; Income Inequality; Middle-Aged Adults; Older Adults; Socioeconomic Position
Enhancing sociodemographic data in a province-wide electronic health record
Principal investigators: Tang, Karen L; Teare, Gary F
Keywords: Electronic Health Record; Natural Language Processing; Qualitative Methods; Social Determinants Of Health
Identifying key resilience factors to combat the harms of social inequality among older adults
Principal investigators: Verschoor, Chris
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Rhona Hanning and Patti-Jean Naylor: 3 shared papers
- Sara Kirk and Rhona Hanning: 2 shared papers
- Sara Kirk and Kim Raine: 2 shared papers
- Sara Kirk and Patti-Jean Naylor: 2 shared papers
- Rhona Hanning and Kim Raine: 2 shared papers
- Kim Raine and Patti-Jean Naylor: 2 shared papers
- Sara Kirk and Dana Olstad: 1 shared paper
- Sara Kirk and Leia Minaker: 1 shared paper
- Rhona Hanning and Dana Olstad: 1 shared paper
- Kim Raine and Dana Olstad: 1 shared paper
- Patti-Jean Naylor and Dana Olstad: 1 shared paper
- Dana Olstad and Leia Minaker: 1 shared paper
- Community Health Sciences
- School of Planning
- School of Health and Human Performance
- Other
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