Mike von Massow, University of Guelph

Research

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Latest papers

Feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary impact of "Supper Heroes", a family-based sustainable diet intervention.
Appetite · 2025
Household Food Waste Intervention Is Feasible, Acceptable, and Effective.
Journal of nutrition education and behavior · 2024
Impact of COVID-19 on food waste behaviour of families: Results from household waste composition audits.
Socio-economic planning sciences · 2022

All 7 publications

Latest funding

Supper Heroes: Testing the impact of a family-based intervention to promote healthy and environmentally sustainable eating
CIHR · 2024 · Co-investigator
$799,426
Implementing Smart Cities Interventions to Build Healthy Cities (SMART) Training Platform
CIHR · 2021 · Co-investigator
$1,650,000

All 2 grants and awards

7 publications.

01

Feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary impact of "Supper Heroes", a family-based sustainable diet intervention.

Eckert KF, Agostinelli J, Laila A, Alexander C, Parizeau K, von Massow M, Duncan AM, Hesketh KD, Ma DWL, Haines J

Appetite2025

DOI: 10.1016/j.appet.2025.107849 PMID: 39788349

02

Household Food Waste Intervention Is Feasible, Acceptable, and Effective.

Laila A, Gallant M, Bain M, Alexander C, Reis L, Welboren A, von Massow M, Parizeau K, Walton K, Ma DWL, Haines J

Journal of nutrition education and behavior2024

DOI: 10.1016/j.jneb.2023.11.004 PMID: 38325952

03

Impact of COVID-19 on food waste behaviour of families: Results from household waste composition audits.

Laila A, von Massow M, Bain M, Parizeau K, Haines J

Socio-economic planning sciences2022

DOI: 10.1016/j.seps.2021.101188 PMID: 34744191

04

Directly observing household food waste generation using composition audits in a Canadian municipality.

Parizeau K, von Massow M, Martin RC

Waste management (New York, N.Y.)2021

DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2021.08.039 PMID: 34536681

05

COVID-19 and the agri-food system in the United States and Canada.

Weersink A, von Massow M, Bannon N, Ifft J, Maples J, McEwan K, McKendree MGS, Nicholson C, Novakovic A, Rangarajan A, Richards T, Rickard B, Rude J, Schipanski M, Schnitkey G, Schulz L, Schuurman D, Schwartzkopf-Genswein K, Stephenson M, Thompson J, Wood K

Agricultural systems2021

DOI: 10.1016/j.agsy.2020.103039 PMID: 33362333

06

An economic evaluation of intervention strategies for Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea (PED).

Weng L, Weersink A, Poljak Z, de Lange K, von Massow M

Preventive veterinary medicine2016Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2016.09.018 PMID: 27836046

07

Household-level dynamics of food waste production and related beliefs, attitudes, and behaviours in Guelph, Ontario.

Parizeau K, von Massow M, Martin R

Waste management (New York, N.Y.)2015

DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2014.09.019 PMID: 25445261

Supper Heroes: Testing the impact of a family-based intervention to promote healthy and environmentally sustainable eating

Co-investigatorCIHR2024Project Grant

Principal investigators: Haines, Jess; Mercer, Nicola J; Parizeau, Kate

Keywords: Family; Food Waste; Intervention; Plant-Based Protein Foods; Randomized Controlled Trial; Sustainable Healthy Eating

$799,426

Implementing Smart Cities Interventions to Build Healthy Cities (SMART) Training Platform

Co-investigatorCIHR2021Training Grant: Healthy Cities Research Training Platform

Principal investigators: Ma, David W; Dubé, Laurette; Suh, Miyoung

Keywords: Big Data; Circular Economy Of Food; Food; Food Security; Health; Healthy Cities; Implementation Science; Indigenous Communities; Nutrition; Smart Cities

$1,650,000

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

Ontario Agricultural College
Department of Family Relations & Applied Nutrition
Bioinformatics
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Kate Parizeau

Faculty

5 shared papers, latest 2025

Jess Haines

Department of Family Relations & Applied Nutrition

3 shared papers, latest 2025

Alfons Weersink

Ontario Agricultural College

2 shared papers, latest 2021

Zvonimir Poljak

Bioinformatics

1 shared papers, latest 2016

Kathryn Walton

Department of Family Relations & Applied Nutrition

1 shared papers, latest 2024

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