Food insecurity

Michael Widener

Associate Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Dalla Lana School of Public Health
  • Faculty of Arts & Science
• Department
  • Geography & Planning

Areas of Expertise

• Emergency medical services transportation
• Food deserts
• Food environments
• Food insecurity
• Health and transportation
• Healthy food accessibility
• How transportation networks and infrastructure affect access to health services and healthy opportunities
• Urban planning and health

Office: 416-946-0270
Website
Email: michael.widener@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Valerie Tarasuk

Professor of Nutritional Sciences

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Dalla Lana School of Public Health
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Nutritional Sciences

Areas of Expertise

• Food and nutrition
• Food and poverty
• Food banks
• Food fortification in Canada
• Food insecurity
• Food policy
• Nutrition inequities
• Nutrition labelling

Office: 416-978-0618
Mobile: 647-517-1860
Email: valerie.tarasuk@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online