About Our Research

The vision of NEPoH is to provide evidence-based policy tools for informing national nutrition policies and guidelines, with the goal of reducing the diet-related burden of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and associated healthcare use. Dr. Jessri’s program is focused on population modeling of the impact of lifestyle patterns on health and healthcare system, predictive modelling, population health impact assessment of public health nutrition policies, nutritional monitoring and surveillance, development of robust methods for addressing the challenges in assessment and analysis of complex data, and design and implementation of personalized risk assessment tools.

Ongoing Research at the Nutritional Epidemiology for Population Health Laboratory (NEPoH)

Some of our ongoing projects in the area of Public Health Nutrition and Policy include: 

• Estimation of Burden of Disease Attributable to Different Dietary Patterns (Including Plant-Based Eating) 

• Child Health and Nutrition Assessment and Monitoring 

• Impacting Assessment of Nutrition Policies (Marketing to Children Restrictions, Front of Package Labelling) on Health and Healthcare Outcomes 

• Use of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Techniques for Deriving Patterns in Health Data 

• Developing Novel Tools and Knowledge Translation and Exchange (Web-based Application Development and Evaluation) 

Web-based Applications