Jennifer Black

Jennifer Black is an associate professor of Food, Nutrition and Health in the Faculty of Land and Food Systems at the University of British Columbia where she leads the Public Health and Urban Nutrition Research Group and teaches courses related to applied nutrition, land, food and community health and research methods. Her research broadly aims to improve understanding of the complex social and contextual factors that shape the health of individuals, communities and of the environment, with a focus on social determinants of health, food environments, school health, and food systems research. She is a co-lead on the Hungry Stories Project, an initiative that brings together scholars and artists with the goal of making art and writing stories that will get people talking about food insecurity and about what we can do to make sure no one ever goes hungry. Check out our work in progress at Hungrystories.ca.