Our values
Humility, creativity, autonomy, collaboration, open-mindedness
Our research team is working to ensure that everyone can enjoy eating, with autonomy, for their own well-being and that of their community.
Our research team is interested in food literacy in various populations and contexts. As several of our team members are dietitians, our team is also interested in professional practice in dietetics.
Our Commitment to Our Community and Partners
Our team works with community partners to maximize our societal impact. We are committed to carrying out projects that will improve the well-being of citizens, and to communicating the results of our work with our colleagues and community.
We value the participation of every member of our community and want to ensure that all our team members and collaborators demonstrate respect and openness towards one another. We welcome the participation of people with diverse social positions, experiential knowledge and identities including age, ethnicity, gender, body size, religion, culture, parenthood, sexual orientation, disability status, and other identities that make you unique. Our team is committed to enhancing and supporting equity, diversity and inclusion. This commitment is reflected in our research, academic teaching, clinical work and community interactions.
Our Work Philosophy
On a day-to-day, our team works remotely and in person, with a common meeting point at the Centre Jean-Jacques-Gauthier. We are open to remote work, as we understand the challenges of work-life balance. We work to ensure that our members are happy both at work and in other areas of their lives.
Maude Perreault
Maude Perreault (she/her) graduated from the Department of Nutrition at the University of Montréal, and with an interest in pediatrics, did most of her internship placements at CHU Sainte-Justine. She then pursued her graduate studies in Ontario. She completed her MSc in the Department of Human Health and Nutritional Sciences at the University of Guelph. She completed a biomedical research project exploring the link between inflammation and fatty acids. She then completed her PhD in the Department of Pediatrics and Medical Sciences Program at McMaster University.
Her project involved a randomized controlled trial for pregnant women, with a nutrition and exercise intervention to measure the impact on both health in both the mother and baby. After her PhD, she pursued a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Family Relations and Applied Nutrition at the University of Guelph, where she explored food literacy in families with young children, and adult eating behaviours in collaboration with Health Canada.
In parallel with her research work, Maude and her partner created a private nutrition business to help parents feed their preschool children, with a focus on serving fathers and multicultural families. She offered individual and group virtual nutrition services, as well as consulting services for community organizations. She has also facilitated nutrition workshops in the workplace.
With an interest in pediatrics, she is most interested in the parents, who are responsible for feeding their children, as well as teaching them the skills needed to feed themselves with autonomy. Maude is also interested in eating behaviours, food literacy, the role of food in our culture, the idea of pleasure in nutrition, and the role of dietitians in supporting people who are learning to eat or who want to make dietary changes.
Maude is a registered dietitian with the Ordre professionnel des diététistes-nutritionnistes du Québec, and with the College of Dietitians of Ontario. She is also a member of the professional association Dietitians of Canada. She is an assistant professor in the Département de nutrition at the University of Montréal. She is also a researcher at the Centre-Jean-Jacques-Gauthier, which is part of the research centre of the CIUSSS-Nord-de-l’Île-de-Montréal. She works in public health nutrition, where she collaborates with community partners. She sees nutrition as a vehicle for social justice – a great challenge and an important responsibility for dietitians!
