Maude Perreault
Maude Perreault, Dt.P. RD Ph.P (she/her) is a registered dietitian and assistant professor in the Department of 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.
Pascale Bourbonnais
Pascale Bourbonnais is a research professional involved in many of the team’s projects. Having completed graduate studies, she offers expertise in project management, literature reviews, ethics approval, protocol writing and analysis of research results.
Jasmine Keurentjes
Jasmine Keurentjes is a registered dietitian and a MSc student in nutrition at the Université de Montréal. Her project focuses on breastfeeding with the objective of supporting families to breastfeeding as long as they wish for. Jasmine is carrying out a scoping review of the most effective interventions for improving breastfeeding duration in first-time mothers. This is a collaboration with the research team of Véronique Gingras at CHU Sainte-Justine.
Selma Abdelaziz
Selma Abdelaziz is a MSc student in nutrition at the Université de Montréal. Her project explores the link between food literacy competencies of people at risk of food insecurity and their adaptation strategies for eating. Her project is part of the Manger avec un budget serré project, completed in Montréal, QC. It is a collaboration with Geneviève Mercille’s research team at the Centre de recherche en santé publique.
Fatoumata Binta Balde
Fatoumata Binta Balde completed a literature review course and research internship placement with our team. She is now a registered dietitian and a MSc student in nutrition at the Université de Montréal. Her project focuses on anti-black racism in dietetic in Canada. In parallel to her MSc project, she is involved in a projet to develop anti-racism training in dietetics. Binta is also a coordinator of La Boîte à livres de Liliane.
Nihad Bennacef
Nihad Bennacef is a MSc student in nutrition at the Université de Montréal. Her project focuses on the role of pleasure in the development of food literacy in young people. Her project explores young people’s positive memories of food. Data is collected as part of the museum exhibit Manger! L’expo qui nourrit at the Musée de la santé Armand-Frappier and the Musée Québécois de l’Agriculture et de l’Alimentation. Nihad is also a coordinator of La Boîte à livres de Liliane.
Charlotte Hébert-Wiencke
Charlotte Hébert-Wiencke is an undergraduate student in nutrition at the Université de Montréal. She completed a summer research internship funded by the program PREMIER of the Université de Montréal. She developed the data collection tool for the project in collaboration with the Musée de la santé Armand-Frappier. Charlotte continues her involvement in our team with several projects. She is also the coordinator of La boîte à livres de Liliane.
Catherine C Payette
Catherine C Payette is an undergraduate student in nutrition at the Université de Montréal. She completed several projects in our team, which included a summer research internship funded by the program PREMIER of the Université de Montréal. Her project explored the association between social vulnerability factors and food literacy competencies of adults living with celiac disease. This is a collaboration with Coeliaque Québec.
Alisia Agostinelli
Alisia Agostinelli completed her undergraduate degree in nutrition at the Université de Montréal, and did a research internship with our team. She carried out various projects, but her main project was to measure the impact of exposure to a provincial advocacy effort for the adoption of a universal food policy in schools in Québec on nutrition undergraduate students’ ambition towards public health nutrition as a career avenue. This project was in collaboration with several faculty members and internship coordinators of the Department of Nutrition at the Université de Montréal. She is now a registered dietitian.
Alexia Roy
Alexia Roy is an undergraduate student in nutrition at the Université de Montréal. She is involved in La boîte à livres de Liliane.
Léna Demnati
Léna Demnati is an undegraduate student in nutrition at the Université de Montréal. She completed a public health internship with the team and helped launch the first season of the community garden at the Centre Jean-Jacques-Gauthier. She also participated in the creation and facilitation of nutrition workshops, in collaboration with clinical and public health registered dietitians.
Nina Klioueva
Nina Klioueva is a MSc student in nutrition at the Université de Montréal. Her research project is in collaboration with our community partner La Tablée des Chefs. Nina explores the impact of the Les Brigades Culinaires culinary workshop program on the development of food literacy competencies of adolescents across Canada.
