Embracing the "One Health" approach, which integrates human, animal, and environmental health, our research encompasses optimal nutrition, food safety, control of zoonotic diseases, and the protection and improvement of human and animal health and well-being. By tackling issues such as zoonoses and environmentally transmitted pathogens, we strive to foster a healthier and more sustainable future for society.
鈥淔ood insecurity is a complex phenomenon. In addition to almost one billion people without enough calories available to meet their daily energy consumption requirements, hundreds of millions suffer from vitamin and mineral deficiencies that put them at a higher risk for disease and mortality.鈥�
鈥擯rofessor Grace Marquis
Research highlights
- Professor Grace Marquis works to improve the nutrition of young children in poor rural communities of Africa. Based on local knowledge, her research group develops alternative strategies that will support health and growth, and can be sustained by rural families, especially women, living in poverty.
- Gilliam Scholar Taking a public health approach and a global perspective to the issues of food insecurity and hunger, Professor聽Hugo Melgar-Qui帽onez, Margaret A. Gilliam Faculty Scholar in Food Security and Director of the McGill Institute for Global Food Security, helped to develop the FAO鈥檚 Food Insecurity Experience Scale (FIES). The tool is used in more than 150 countries around the world to measure food insecurity through people鈥檚 experiences.
- Professor Jianguo (Jeff) Xia, Canada Research Chair in Bioinformatics and Big Data Analytics, leverages bioinformatics, statistics and big data to understand the effects of biological, environmental and nutritional factors on health and disease.
- Clinician-scientist Professor Anne-Sophie Brazeau focuses on strategies to improve health behaviours of individuals with type 1 and type 2 diabetes. She co-leads a multi-million dollar, multi-institutional study that aims to reduce hypoglycemic risk in patients with type 1 diabetes.
Facing health-related challenges while considering environment impacts, our research strives to benefit individuals, communities, and economic food production systems through a One Health lens.
As a multidisciplinary approach to solving global and environmental health challenges, One Health involves understanding nutrition, diseases, and pathogens and encompasses the protection and improvement of human and animal health and well-being.