Assistant Professor in the Food Nutrition and Health Program, Faculty of Land and Food Systems, The University of British Columbia
Canada Research Chair in Nutritional Epidemiology for Population Health
Faculty at the Centre for Health Services and Policy Research, Faculty of Medicine, The University of British Columbia
Dr. Mahsa Jessri is an Assistant Professor in Food, Nutrition and Health Program where she holds the Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Nutritional Epidemiology for Population Health. She is a Faculty at the Centre for Health Services and Policy Research (CHSPR), and Department of Health Services and Policy (HSP), at the UBC School of Population and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine. Dr. Jessri is also an Affiliate Investigator of Evidence to Innovation (E2i) Theme at the BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute and a Core member of Health Canada’s Nutrition Science Advisory Committee (NSAC).
Dr. Jessri has published numerous papers and government reports and has been awarded several national grants and awards to support her research program, including a recently-funded Canadian Foundation for Innovation Grant to support her Nutritional Epidemiology and Big Data Analytics Laboratory.
Research Interests and Expertise
Dr. Jessri is an expert in public health, nutritional epidemiology, surveillance and methodology, biostatistics, as well as public health nutrition policy and her program is uniquely at the intersection of population and public health and nutritional sciences and dietetics. The overarching goal of her research program is to provide the evidence-base and decision tools to inform national guidelines and policies for reducing the burden of chronic diseases.
Education
Banting Postdoctoral Fellow, Clinical Epidemiology, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute; Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Health Analysis Division, Statistics Canada, Ottawa, ON.
PhD (Vanier Scholar), Nutritional Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON.
M.Sc., Nutrition and Metabolism, Human Nutrition Division, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB.
Affiliations and Awards
Discovery Award, Banting Research Foundation
Royal Society of Canada (RCS) Alice Wilson Award
Member, UBC Social Exposome Cluster