Rhona Hanning PhD, RD, FDC

Dr. Hanning is an professor at University of Waterloo. Her research program emphasizes healthy eating and youth. She had developed and evaluated electronic approaches to dietary assessment and applied them in school-based surveillance and as part of mixed methods evaluations of public/ community health program and policy interventions. For example, in collaboration with communities serving First Nations and Metis students and multi-disciplinary research and NGO partners, She is evaluating an initiative to enhance local healthy foods for schools. Her Other research explores Canadian recreation centre food environments and community-level determinants of maternal child health and nutrition in Africa.