Current Members

Alyssa Schermel (Lab Manager)

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Alyssa has been Lab Manager of the L’Abbé Lab since completing her Master’s degree under Dr. Mary L’Abbé in 2012. In addition to assisting with projects, grants, budgets, and student coordination, Alyssa manages the University… [Read More]

Post Doctoral Fellows

Rola Ghali

Dr. Rola Al Ghali is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the L’Abbé Lab at the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on food environment surveillance, nutrition policy evaluation, chronic disease prevention, and health equity. In her… [Read More]

PhD Students

Hayun (Sarah) Jeong

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Sarah is a PhD student in the L’Abbe Lab. Her thesis research focuses on facilitating healthy food choices outside the home in Canada and evaluating nutrient profile models for menu labelling. She is also leading… [Read More]

MSc Students

Elenee Harper

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Elenee is a MSc candidate in the L’Abbé lab. Her thesis project involves collecting and analyzing updated national-level dietary intake data to assess dietary intakes, nutrient adequacy, and diet quality among Canadian adults prior to… [Read More]

Visiting Graduate Students

Carolina Kikuta

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Carolina is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Public Health, University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil. Her doctoral research focuses on evaluating the implementation of Brazil’s front-of-package nutrition labeling regulation and developing a monitoring… [Read More]

Undergraduate Thesis Students

Isabella Nuosci

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Isabella is a fourth-year undergraduate student at the University of Toronto, majoring in Nutritional Sciences and Human Biology. She is completing her undergraduate thesis in the L’Abbé Lab through NFS494. Her thesis focuses on food… [Read More]

Shallea Wong

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Shallea is a third-year undergraduate thesis student in the L’Abbé Lab, majoring in Nutritional Sciences and Pharmacology. Her thesis for NFS394 is focused on categorizing and organizing ultra-processed food (UPF) additives. She is using U… [Read More]

Research Assistants

Yahan (Hailey) Yang

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Beginning as an undergraduate research summer student in 2018, Hailey went on to obtain her Master’s degree in June 2022 under Dr. L’Abbé. Hailey continues to support the L’Abbe Lab as a Research Analyst. Hailey led a… [Read More]