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Katie Chong
Katie鈥檚 research interests are rooted in the relationships between human, environment, and community health, and draw on her experience in the health and global health sciences. Under the supervision of professor Nil Basu, her thesis focuses on designing human health and ecological risk assessment approaches that prioritize the perspectives and contexts of Indigenous rightsholders and advance multidisciplinary collaboration. This work is part of a larger project co-led by the Kanien'keh谩ka Nation of Kanesatake aiming to advance new environmental assessment methods to be adapted for, lead by, and ultimately benefit the communities in which they are used.
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Revathi Sahajpal, Ph.D. Candidate
Revathi obtained her Bachelor鈥檚 in Nutritional Sciences from Panjab University, India in 2015 and her Masters in Human Nutrition from McGill University in 2019. Post her master鈥檚 she joined听professor Treena Delormier鈥檚 and听professor Brittany Jock鈥檚 Indigenous Food Circle in Winter 2020 for pursuing her doctoral studies. Revathi鈥檚 doctoral project is a part of a cross Canada research study looking at the nutrition, health, and environment of First Nations Children and Youth between the ages of 3 to 19 called the Food, Environment, Health, and Nutrition of First Nations Children and Youth (FEHNCY) study. Revathi believes that food holds much more meaning than diet and nutrition, it is associated with history, relationships, culture, and sense of community that makes it an integral part of identity. In her Ph.D. she aims to understand First Nations food environment as an experience that shapes food access through community engagement and building relationships with participating First Nations.
Msc Students
Jolian Wong MSc. PDt.
Jolian graduated with a B.Sc. in dietetics in 2019 at McGill University. Since, she has gained experience working in clinical nutrition and foodservice management. She has also completed master's thesis under the supervision of听professor Jock which focused on the application of knowledge from research findings with First Nations communities to inform policies and programs. After completing her master's, she now continues to work with听professor Jock as a research assistant.
Patrick Gibeau
Patrick is a master鈥檚 student supervised by Murray Humphries. He is currently living in Whitehorse to help generate knowledge on the Summer Range of the Porcupine Caribou herd located in the Northern Yukon. This area is ecologically, nutritionally, and culturally important to the Inuvialuit and Gwich鈥檌n people, and it faces uncertain ecosystem trajectories in the era of climate change. Northern communities are concerned with climate-driven increases in moose abundance and whether their movement into tundra ecosystems will drive a change in predator-prey systems, potentially resulting in adverse consequences for the culturally important Porcupine Caribou Herd. Patrick鈥檚 research aims to better understand the mechanisms of ongoing change within the predator-prey relationships of wolves, to help decision-makers understand system shifts and their impacts on wildlife, people, and habitats.
Ferial Hamdi
Ferial is currently pursuing her Master鈥檚 degree at McGill School of Human Nutrition. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Nutritional Sciences from Azad University, Tehran, where her passion for working with quantitative methods and recognizing the significance of social and behavioral approaches in research in partnership with marginalized populations took root. Ferial is actively engaged in several studies, including FEHNCY. Her thesis focuses on characterizing the food environments of First Nations' communities in Canada through latent class analysis.
Shabnam Hosseini
Shabnam holds Bachelor鈥檚 in Human Nutrition and Dietetics from Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences (Iran). In 2019, she obtained her Master of Business Administration from Tehran Business School (Iran). Shabnam has almost eight years of research experience in Iran, developing and implementing surveys, and working as a nutritionist at hospitals and her own office in Iran. She is currently pursuing her MSc at the School of Human Nutrition, McGill University. Her research uses a mixed-methods approach to explore and understand neglected micronutrient deficiencies among women in rural Eastern Region of Ghana. She is eager to work in international institutions and help improve the well-being of women