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    The NEPoH lab at UBC is where big data analytics and nutritional epidemiology intersect to inform nutrition policy and guidelines for healthier populations.   Read More

  • Food Security, Nutrition, and Indigenous Health in the Arctic

    Our NEPoH affiliated predoctoral fellow and Yale PhD candidate Sappho Gilbert was recently interviewed on the U.S. National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences’ podcast series, “Environmental Health Chat.” In it, she describes her community-engaged research in the Canadian Arctic territory of Nunavut on the nutrition transition, Inuit food security and sovereignty, and climate change as well as the […] Read More

  • Congratulations to Alisha for the CIHR Graduate Scholarship

    Congratulations to Alisha Buttar for being awarded the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Canada Graduate Scholarship – Master’s award 2022 for her first year of Master’s studies. She has a BSc in Food, Nutrition and Health major in Dietetics from UBC. Her research interests include population health, chronic disease prevention through a dietary perspective […] Read More

Welcome to Nutritional Epidemiology for Population Health (NEPoH) Laboratory

We are located in the newly-established Nutritional Epidemiology and Big Data Analytics (NEBA) laboratory at the Faculty of Land and Food Systems, University of British Columbia. Our vision is to provide evidence-based policy tools for informing national nutrition policies and guidelines, with the goal of reducing the diet-related burden of non-communicable diseases and associated healthcare use. Learn More.

Our Ongoing Research

Nutrition Policies related to Health and Healthcare Outcomes

Estimation of Burden of Disease Attributable to Different Dietary Patterns

Nutrition Surveillance and Child Health

Artificial Intelligence and Population Health Data

Knowledge Translation and Exchanges Tools

Nutritional Epidemiology for Population Health Laboratory
Vancouver Campus
Faculty of Land and Food Systems
2357 Main Mall
Vancouver, BC Canada V6T 1Z4
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