Mahsa Jessri

Dr. Mahsa Jessri is an assistant professor leading the Nutritional Epidemiology for Population Health Program at the University of British Columbia. She is an expert in public health nutrition, nutritional epidemiology, surveillance and methodology, as well as nutrition policy. In 2018, she received a Royal Society of Canada Award. Dr. Jessri’s research program is uniquely at the intersection of nutritional sciences and population and public health. The overarching goal of her research program is to provide the evidence-base and decision tools to inform nutritional guidelines and polices for reducing the burden of chronic diseases.

Dr. Jessri is an advisory member of several national and international committees, including at Health Canada, and the World Federation of Public Health Associations. Currently, Dr. Jessri’s program is focused on population modeling of the impact of dietary patterns on health and healthcare, population health impact assessment of nutrition policies, nutritional monitoring and surveillance, and design and implementation of personalized risk assessment tools.

For an up-to-date list of publications by Dr. Jessri, please see UBC.