Dr. Mavra Ahmed is a Research Associate in the Department of Nutritional Sciences and Joannah and Brian Lawson Centre for Child Nutrition, University of Toronto and an Adjunct Professor with the Faculty of Health Sciences at Ontario Tech University. She was supervised by Dr. L’Abbe during multiple phases of her career trajectory:
PhD – 2013-2017
Post Doctoral Fellow – 2017-2020
Research Associate – 2021-2023
Dr. Ahmed has experience in nutrition and food policy and clinical nutrition with strong expertise in research methods and extensive collaborations with both private and public partners. Dr. Ahmed obtained her PhD, specializing in the characterization of dietary intakes of the Canadian Armed Forces and the evaluation of novel technologies for assessing diets. She also holds a CIHR Fellowship in the Strategic Training Program in Public Health Policy, a CIHR Fellowship in Artificial Intelligence for Public Health from the Dalla Lana School of Public Health and a Visiting International Research Fellowship from College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Flinders University, Australia. Her current research focuses on driving equity-focused policy shifts by determining the relationships between social determinants of health, dietary patterns/intakes and nutrition-related behaviours and knowledge to improve the health of vulnerable populations. She is leading the Feeding Kids, Nourishing Minds school nutrition research initiative that aims to provide a comprehensive overview of school food programs in Canada and identify best practices in relation to the design, delivery, and measurement of school food programs. Dr. Ahmed is also focused on exploring the use of machine learning and AI in evaluating the Canadian food environment, specifically the impact of the nutritional value of foods on health outcomes and in relation to help guide Canadian nutrition policy development, implementation and evaluation and help Canadian consumers eat healthy and manage chronic diseases.
PubMed Link: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Mavra+Ahmed&sort=date