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Jessica Wegener
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Latest papers
Systems Leadership Among Nutrition and Dietetics Professionals: Facilitating Transitions to Sustainable Dietary Patterns.
Journal of human nutrition and dietetics : the official journal of the British Dietetic Association · 2026
'Taking Sustainable Food Systems Teaching Out of the Box': Embedding Transformative, Systems-Engaged Pedagogy in Canadian Dietetic Education.
Journal of human nutrition and dietetics : the official journal of the British Dietetic Association · 2026 · first author
Sustainability in Canadian Dietetic Practice.
Canadian journal of dietetic practice and research : a publication of Dietitians of Canada = Revue canadienne de la pratique et de la recherche en dietetique : une publication des Dietetistes du Canada · 2025 · senior author
Latest funding
- $34,482
The social impact potential of dietitians on population-level sustainable dietary patterns
SSHRC · 2022 · Co-investigator
- $24,050
Feeding cities rural-urban connections and the future of family farming
SSHRC · 2013 · Co-investigator
6 publications.
Systems Leadership Among Nutrition and Dietetics Professionals: Facilitating Transitions to Sustainable Dietary Patterns.
Everitt T, Wegener J, Carlsson L
'Taking Sustainable Food Systems Teaching Out of the Box': Embedding Transformative, Systems-Engaged Pedagogy in Canadian Dietetic Education.
Wegener J, Carlsson L, Everitt T, Kereliuk N, Stokes J
Sustainability in Canadian Dietetic Practice.
Everitt T., Carlsson L., Wegener J.
The Client's Goals Are My Primary Responsibility: A Qualitative Study Examining Dietitians' Perceptions of the Barriers and Facilitators to Incorporating Environmentally Sustainable Food Systems in Clinical and Food Services Practice Within Healthcare Settings.
Saucis K, Wegener J, Carlsson L, Everitt T
"The client's goals are my primary responsibility": a qualitative study examining clinical and food services dietitians' perceptions of the barriers and facilitators to incorporating environmentally sustainable food systems in healthcare settings.
Saucis K, Wegener J, Carlsson L, Everitt T
Food Insecurity, Dietary Intakes, and Eating Behaviors in a Convenience Sample of Toronto Youth
Alexandra Dubelt-Moroz, Marika Warner, Bryan Heal, Saman Khalesi, Jessica T. Wegener, Julia O. Totosy de Zepetnek, Jennifer J. Lee, Taylor Polecrone, Jasmin El-Sarraj, Emelie Holmgren, Nick Bellissimo
The social impact potential of dietitians on population-level sustainable dietary patterns
Principal investigators: Carlsson, Liesel
Keywords: Sustainable diets; Sustainable dietary patterns; Nutritionist / dietitian; Dietetic practice; Dietary transitions; Food Environments
Feeding cities rural-urban connections and the future of family farming
Principal investigators: Rocha, Cecilia
Keywords: family farms; local food; sustainable food systems; rural-urban connections; alternative food systems
From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.
Frequent collaborators
- Jennifer Lee and Julia Totosy de Zepetnek: 7 shared papers
- Liesel Carlsson and Jessica Wegener: 5 shared papers
- Julia Totosy de Zepetnek and Nick Bellissimo: 2 shared papers
- Jennifer Lee and Nick Bellissimo: 1 shared paper
- Jennifer Lee and Jessica Wegener: 1 shared paper
- Julia Totosy de Zepetnek and Jessica Wegener: 1 shared paper
- Nick Bellissimo and Jessica Wegener: 1 shared paper
- School of Nutrition
- Health Systems and Society
- Nutrition
- Faculty of Kinesiology & Health Studies
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