The School of Nutrition Sciences aspires to educate tomorrow’s professional leaders in food and nutrition sciences to advance knowledge mobilization and promote healthy lifestyles.
Nutrition and mental health knowledge exchange day
“On Jan 11th, the School of Nutrition Sciences hosted a Nutrition and Mental Health Knowledge exchange day at Roger Guindon Hall, uOttawa, which included live streaming of the Canadian Nutrition Society (CNS) annual thematic conference "Advances in Nutrition
Fall 2019 Convocation Ceremony: Honored to have one of our students, Anna Ly-Kirkwood, deliver the Valedictorian Speech.
We were proud to hear the inspiring farewell speech of this year’s valedictorian by Anna Ly-Kirkwood, a graduate of the School of Nutritional Sciences, at the graduation ceremony held on November 1, 2019.
The inaugural uOttawa Knowledge Mobilization (KMb) Excellence Award is presented to Professor Bénédicte Fontaine-Bisson for her pioneering initiative in optimizing folic acid intake during pregnancy
The Knowledge Mobilization Excellence Award (KMbE Award) is designed to recognize researcher’s excellence in knowledge mobilization.
Bénédicte Fontaine-Bisson and Alex Dumas are awarded an operating grant from the Fonds National de Recherche du Consortium National de Formation en Santé (CNFS)
Knowledge from this project will help provide a better access to a continuum of perinatal nutritional and health services in French to improve nutrition as well as maternal and infantile health among francophone people in minority settings.
Transdisciplinary workshop on nutrition, health and well-being of women using opioids during pregnancy
The goal of the workshop was to develop a research project to improve food security, nutrition and health of pregnant women who use opioids through a continuum of tailored and coordinated nutritional, community and healthcare services.
