Anu Popoola

Anu Popoola is a second-year medical student at the University of Toronto’s St. George Campus. The project she worked on this summer is entitled “Enhancing Nutrition Equity: Assessing & Transforming Peel Region's Food Environment for Optimizing Health”. This research focused on characterizing the nutritional quality of ethnic food products and understanding the nutrition knowledge, attitudes and behaviours of culturally and linguistically diverse groups in accessing healthy foods. Additionally, a culturally sensitive nutrition knowledge, attitudes and behaviour survey was developed and validated, using literature reviews, adaptations of current knowledge survey tools and expert review. This work will have implications on the design of locally applied and culturally relevant resources and interventions in transforming the food environment for type 2 diabetes prevention and management.

Supervisor: Dr. Mavra Ahmed