Christine Mulligan

Dr. Christine Mulligan completed her PhD in 2022 at the University of Toronto in the Department of Nutritional Sciences with a collaborative specialization in public health policy through the Dalla Lana School of Public Health. Her research career thus far has been focused on providing evidence to inform federal food policy aiming to restrict unhealthy food marketing targeting children. She has also worked as an expert consultant to Health Canada to develop protocols for their national food marketing monitoring strategy. Christine has been involved in several other research areas related to food and nutrition policy for population health, including nutrient profiling, dietary assessment, nutrition labelling, dietary guidelines, food processing, stakeholder involvement in food policy, and more. As a post-doctoral fellow in the CIHR Health Systems Impact fellowship program, Dr. Mulligan is excited to shift into a new field of research embedded within Foundry, an integrated youth service initiative in BC, and hopes to have meaningful impact on the broader social determinants of health that influence the overall well-being of youth in British Columbia.