Jennifer Black, University of British Columbia

Research

Beverage Intake Canadian Community Health Survey Children And Youth Diet Quality Dietary Practices Multi-Level Modelling Nci Method Schools

Latest papers

Food-related worry and food bank use during the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada: results from a nationally representative multi-round study.
BMC public health · 2023
Correction: The Good Food for Learning Universal Curriculum-Integrated Healthy School Lunch Intervention: Protocol for a Two-Year Matched Control Pre-Post and Case Study.
JMIR research protocols · 2021
Examining the associations between food worry and mental health during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada.
Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique · 2021

All 5 publications

Latest funding

Catalyzing School Food Research in British Columbia: Bridging Networks, Mapping Governance, and Understanding the Potential of Food Literacy to Improve Children's Health and Well-being
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
Improving School Food: Universal Integrated Healthy Lunch Intervention Research
CIHR · 2019 · Co-investigator
$527,849
Examining school day dietary practices: An analysis of national dietary data from the 2004 and 2015 Canadian Community Health Surveys
CIHR · 2016 · Nominated PI
$100,000

All 8 grants and awards

5 publications.

01

Food-related worry and food bank use during the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada: results from a nationally representative multi-round study.

Daly Z, Black J, McAuliffe C, Jenkins E

BMC public health2023

DOI: 10.1186/s12889-023-16602-x PMID: 37670251

02

Correction: The Good Food for Learning Universal Curriculum-Integrated Healthy School Lunch Intervention: Protocol for a Two-Year Matched Control Pre-Post and Case Study.

Engler-Stringer R, Black J, Muhajarine N, Martin W, Gilliland J, McVittie J, Kirk S, Wittman H, Mousavi A, Elliott S, Tu S, Hills B, Androsoff G, Field D, Macdonald B, Belt C, Vatanparast H

JMIR research protocols2021

DOI: 10.2196/34393 PMID: 34731086

03

Examining the associations between food worry and mental health during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada.

McAuliffe C, Daly Z, Black J, Pumarino J, Gadermann A, Slemon A, Thomson KC, Richardson C, Jenkins EK

Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique2021

DOI: 10.17269/s41997-021-00557-w PMID: 34383262

04

The Good Food for Learning Universal Curriculum-Integrated Healthy School Lunch Intervention: Protocol for a Two-Year Matched Control Pre-Post and Case Study.

Engler-Stringer R, Black J, Muhajarine N, Martin W, Gilliland J, McVittie J, Kirk S, Wittman H, Mousavi A, Elliott S, Tu S, Hills B, Androsoff G, Field D, Macdonald B, Belt C, Vatanparast H

JMIR research protocols2021

DOI: 10.2196/30899 PMID: 34546171

05

Assessing the validity of commercial and municipal food environment data sets in Vancouver, Canada.

Daepp MI, Black J

Public health nutrition2017Senior author

DOI: 10.1017/s1368980017001744 PMID: 28816109

Catalyzing School Food Research in British Columbia: Bridging Networks, Mapping Governance, and Understanding the Potential of Food Literacy to Improve Children's Health and Well-being

Co-investigatorCIHR2025Catalyst Grant: Partnering for Impact - Impacts of School Food Programs

Principal investigators: Soma, Tammara; Han, Richard

Keywords: Children; Food Literacy; Food Policy; Health; School Food

Improving School Food: Universal Integrated Healthy Lunch Intervention Research

Co-investigatorCIHR2019Project Grant

Principal investigators: Engler-Stringer, Rachel; Field, Debbie E

Keywords: Food Systems; Health Promotion; Population Health Intervention Research; Schools

$527,849

Examining school day dietary practices: An analysis of national dietary data from the 2004 and 2015 Canadian Community Health Surveys

Nominated PICIHR2016Operating Grant: CCHS - Nutrition Analysis

Principal investigators: Black, Jennifer L

Keywords: Beverage Intake; Canadian Community Health Survey; Children And Youth; Diet Quality; Dietary Practices; Multi-Level Modelling; Nci Method; Schools

$100,000

Evaluating the Impact of the Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society's Food Hubs Programs on Dietary Intake and Food Security

Nominated PICIHR2014Operating Grant: Population Health Intervention Research

Principal investigators: Black, Jennifer L; Lear, Scott A

Keywords: Chronic Disease Risk; Dietary Intake; Focus Groups; Food Banks; Food Literacy; Food Security; Natural Experiment; Surveys

$200,000

Exploring the role of in-school food advertising and adolescent dietary outcomes

SupervisorCIHR2012CIHR Fellowship

Principal investigators: Velazquez, Cayley E

Keywords: Dietary Practices; Food And Beverage Advertising; Multilevel Regression; Youth

$165,000

Food systems and health equity in an era of globalization: Think, Eat and Grow Green Globally (TEG3)

Co-investigatorCIHR2011Operating Grant: Programmatic Grants to tackle health and health equity

Principal investigators: Spiegel, Jerry M

Keywords: Environmental Health; Food Systems; Health Equity; Indigenous; Information And Communication Technologies; Nutrition; Occupational Health; Participatory Research; Pesticide; Sustainability

$1,900,637

What Shapes Food Practices on School Days? Examining the Role of the School Food Environment.

Nominated PICIHR2011Operating Grant

Principal investigators: Black, Jennifer L; Chapman, Gwenneth E

Keywords: Dietary Practices; Focus Groups; Food Environment; Gis; Mixed-Methods; Multi-Level Models; Schools; Survey Research

$293,993

A Moving Study: Physical Activity and Diet Before and After Residential Relocation

Co-investigatorCIHR2009Built Environment: Population Health Intervention Research

Principal investigators: Frank, Lawrence

Keywords: Built Environmnet; Chronic Disease; Community Nutrition; Environmental Health; Knowledge Exchange; Obesity; Physical Activity; Planning; Population Intervention; Public Health; Stroke; Transporation And Health

$391,664

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

Community Health and Epidemiology
Food, Nutrition and Health
Nutrition
Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Health and Human Performance
Medicine
School of Population and Public Health
Other

Co-authors at University of British Columbia, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.

Wanda Martin

Medicine

2 shared papers, latest 2021

Debbie Field

Nutrition

2 shared papers, latest 2021

Nazeem Muhajarine

Community Health and Epidemiology

2 shared papers, latest 2021

Rachel Engler-Stringer

Community Health and Epidemiology

2 shared papers, latest 2021

Sara Kirk

Health and Human Performance

2 shared papers, latest 2021

Jason Gilliland

Epidemiology and Biostatistics

2 shared papers, latest 2021

Emily Jenkins

School of Nursing

1 shared papers, latest 2023

Anne Gadermann

School of Population and Public Health

1 shared papers, latest 2021

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