HeLTI Webinars and Events

Topic: Preventing disordered eating and eating disorders through public health policy

When: Thursday March 20 at 8:00 EDT (12:00 GMT; 14:00 SAST; 17:30 IST; 20:00 CST)

Presenter: Dr. Amanda Raffoul, Assistant Professor at University of Toronto

Brief Description: This presentation will address the different ways that public health and nutrition policy can be leveraged to prevent and “do no harm” for people at risk of developing eating disorders and disordered eating.

Topic: TBD

When: Friday May 2 at 8:00 EDT(12:00 GMT; 14:00 SAST; 17:30 IST; 20:00 CST)

Presenter: Edith Breton, PhD

Brief Description: Eeating disorders and their symptoms, and how we can combine approaches from different fields (ex., genetics, psychology/psychiatry, neuroscience, etc) to better understand eating disorders in the hope of better preventing/treating them

Topic: TBD

When: Monday June 2 at 8:00 EDT (12:00 GMT; 14:00 SAST; 17:30 IST; 20:00 CST)

Presenter: Kalynaraman Kumaran, DM, FFPH and Kumar Gavali, PhD

Brief Description: TBD

Topic: TBD

When: Monday September 8 at 8:00 EDT (12:00 GMT; 14:00 SAST; 17:30 IST; 20:00 CST)

Presenter: Dan Sellen, PhD, Professor at University of Toronto and Jenna Hickey, Lead Research Coordinator

Brief Description: On the topic of knowledge translation / mobilization some work one of my teams has been doing with CANWACH on gender transformation of nutrition programs using Global Affairs Canada’s feminist development agenda translated through the “GTFN” framework adopted by Scaling Up Nutrition and a range of NGO’s may be relevant. Methodological highlights include c-creative approaches to MNCHN-program transformative tool design and testing.