Dear SDOH colleagues,

Please join us for a 2-part webinar series on household food insecurity in Canada, hosted by the Canadian Nutrition Society on February 10th and 17th at 1-2pm ET. PROOF investigators, Drs. Valerie Tarasuk and Herb Emery will present on the state of household food insecurity in Canada, the relationship with health, and evidence-based policy interventions to address this problem.

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Household food insecurity in Canada, Part 1: food, nutrition, and health in the context of pervasive material deprivation

Date:  Thursday, February 10, 2022
Time: 13:00 - 14:00 ET
Register at: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_fz7jb2w8Q2i6y2MjYPLOvg

This webinar will discuss population data on food insecurity prevalence and current trends; review the geographic and socio-demographic patterning of household food insecurity in Canada; examine how household food insecurity relates to dietary intakes, overweight and obesity, diet-related diseases, and health more broadly; and consider the relationship between households’ food insecurity status and their other financial needs and stressors. Finally, we will explore the implications of these learnings for health care providers and intervention in clinical settings.

Speaker: PROOF principal investigator, Valerie Tarasuk, PhD (University of Toronto)
Moderator: Malek Batal, PhD (Université de Montréal)

Household food insecurity in Canada, Part 2: public policy responses and solutions

Date:  Thursday, February 17, 2022
Time: 13:00 - 14:00 ET
Register at: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_GmFgi8SvQ8O2zZ3bbTC5VA

This webinar will draw on findings from Canadian research and recent international comparative studies to interrogate the relationship between the prevalence and severity of household food insecurity and social policy, considering family and child benefits, wages, pensions, housing and food subsidies, and the public funding of charitable food assistance programs. Building on this body of evidence, we will discuss key elements of effective policy responses to address food insecurity in Canada, considering the centrality of income security to this problem.

Speakers: PROOF investigators Valerie Tarasuk, PhD (University of Toronto) and Herb Emery, PhD (University of New Brunswick)
Moderator: Bénédicte Fontaine-Bisson, PhD (University of Ottawa)

About PROOF:
PROOF<https://proof.utoronto.ca/> is an interdisciplinary research team investigating household food insecurity in Canada. The goal of this research program is to identify effective policy approaches to reduce household food insecurity. Over the past 10 years<https://proof.utoronto.ca/a-look-back-at-10-years-of-proof/>, PROOF's work has helped advance the understanding of food insecurity in Canada and establish food insecurity as a serious public health problem and matter of public policy.

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Tim Li, MSCom
PROOF Research Program Coordinator
Department of Nutritional Sciences
Temerty Faculty of Medicine
University of Toronto
Toronto, ON  M5S 1A8
https://proof.utoronto.ca/

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