Jess Haines, Professor, PhD, RD

Family Relations and Applied Nutrition
University of Guelph

Jess Haines, PhD, MHSc, RD is a Professor of Applied Nutrition at the University of Guelph and the Co-Director of the Guelph Family Health Study. Along with an interdisciplinary team of colleagues at the University of Guelph, she is currently testing interventions designed to promote healthy sustainable eating among families.

Family-based interventions to promote sustainable healthy eating

This presentation will cover:

·rationale for consumer-level strategies to promote healthy sustainable eating

·interventions to promote intake of plant-based proteins

·design, implementation, and evaluation of an intervention to reduce household food waste

·discussion of next steps in intervention research to promote healthy sustainable eating among families