Equity in Nutrition - CNS Events & Activities

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Upcoming CNS Events

January 7, 2023 - Registration now open
CNS 2023 Thematic Conference - Disparities in Eating Disorder Care and Research Across Race, Ethnicity and Underrepresented Populations 

• Session description: Eating Because We're Hungry or Because Something's Eating Us?: Body Image Issues and Eating Disorders in Black Women - Charlynn Small, PhD, LCP, CEDS-S - Asst. Dir. Health Promotion/Staff Psychologist, Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS), University of Richmond
• Session description: Wicked Bodies: A Teaching Tool for Health Professionals working with 2SLGBTQ+ People Living with Eating Disorders - Phillip Joy (he/him), PhD, PDt, MSc -Applied Human Nutrition, Mount Saint Vincent University

CNS Annual Conference Equity in Nutrition Travel Award

•  Travel awards available to equity deserving groups, including Black, Indigenous, People of Colour (BIPOC), LGBTQ2S+ and / or people with disabilities. 
  2023 Award information coming soon. 

Recordings from past events

• Household food insecurity in Canada, Part 2: public policy responses and solutions - February 17, 2022
  • Speakers: Valerie Tarasuk, PhD (University of Toronto) and Herb Emery, PhD (University of New Brunswick)
     
• Household food insecurity in Canada, Part 1: food, nutrition, and health in the context of pervasive material deprivation - February 10, 2022
  • Speaker: Valerie Tarasuk, PhD (University of Toronto)
     
• Out of the Darkness and into the Light - September 30, 2021 
  • Speakers: Dr. Ian Mosby, PhD & Dr. Treena Wasonti:io Delormier
     
• Strengths-based nutrition interventions in Indigenous communities - March 26, 2021 
  • “Syilx-led reintroduction of sockeye salmon into the Okanagan River Basin" - Rosanne Blanchet, PhD, RD – University of Alberta and Suzanne Johnson, MSc, RD - Okanagan Salmon and Our Health
  • “The Indigenous Youth Mentorship Program (IYMP): a Peer-led Healthy Living Afterschool Program" - Kate Storey, PhD, RD - University of Alberta
     
• Cultural food security in different migrant populations in Canada - March 26, 2021 

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