Food insecurity and Nutrition in developing countries and vulnerable populations. Policies, programs and interventions against food insecurity and hunger. Social, environmental and economic determinants and consequences of food insecurity.

Graduate students trained at McGill University in addition to 27 other graduate students supervised in the USA, Colombia, Bolivia and Mexico
• Emma Puente-Duran (MS in Nutrition) – Food Security and Food Expenditures in Guatemalan Households Role: Primary Advisor. Graduation: October 2014.
• Milly Khondkar (MS in Nutrition - applied) – Food and Agriculture Reports on the State of Food Insecurity in the World. Role: Primary Advisor . Graduation: May 2014.
• Kate Sinclair (MS in Nutrition) – Food Security and Livestock Diversity in Small Farmers in Haiti - Role: Primary Advisor. Graduation: October 2014.
• Jasmine Parent (MS in Nutrition) – Food Security and Dietary Diversity in Small Farmers in Haiti Role: Primary Advisor. Graduation: May 2015.
• Elizabeth Graham (MS in Nutrition) – Gender disparities in perceived life satisfaction within food insecure populations. Role: Primary Advisor. Graduation: November 2015.
• Meghan E. Miller (MS in Nutrition) – Food security & social support: exploring relationships between social resources & access to adequate food. Role: Primary Advisor. Graduation: November 2015.
• Gabrielle Helal (MS in Nutrition) – Food Security and Corruption. Role: Primary Advisor. Graduation: 2016
• Nicolette Graves (MS in Nutrition) – Food Security and Genetically Modified Organisms. Role: Primary Advisor. Expected Graduation: 2016
• Melissa Akerib-Marchand (MS in Nutrition) - Food Security and Climate Change. Role: Primary Advisor. Graduation: 2016
• Ekta Amarnani (MS in Nutrition) – Food Insecurity among Rural Youth. Role: Supervisor. Graduated: 2017
• Stephanie Trempe (MS in Animal Sciences) – Alternative local feed options for Black Belly Sheep in Barbados. Role: Co-Supervisor. Graduated: 2017
• Jingjun Yu (MS in Nutrition) Practical applications of the Rasch Model in the validation of Food Security Scales. Role: Supervisor. Graduated: 2017
• Anh Bui (MS in Nutrition) – Food Insecurity among Immigrant Populations in Canada. Role: Supervisor. Graduated: 2018
• Jae Yeon Park (MS in Nutrition) – Food security in Elderly Populations in Industrialized Countries. Role: Supervisor. Expected Graduation: 2018
• Narges Ebadi (MS in Nutrition) – Migration and food insecurity. Role: Supervisor. Graduated: 2018
• Tasnim Abdi (MS in Nutrition) – Food insecurity in Ethiopian households. Graduated: Winter 2018. Role: Supervisor.
• Akankasha Sen (MS in Nutrition) – Dietary Diversity and Child Nutritional Status in Malawi. Graduated: Winter 2018. Role: Supervisor.
• Luna Rezende Machado de Sousa (MS in Nutrition) – Food security status in times of financial and political crisis in Brazil. Graduated: Winter 2019. Role: Supervisor.
• Kate Sinclair (PhD in Nutrition) – Exploring Issues Related to Food Insecurity and Women's Autonomy in Colombia. Role: Supervisor. Expected Graduation: 2020.
• Pauley Tedoff (PhD in Epidemiology) - The Effect of Gender Equity on Food Security and Nutrition Status of Women and Children under Five in Four Countries in Southern Africa. Expected Graduation: Fall 2020. Role: Co Supervisor.
• Julien Mallard (PhD in Bioresource Engineering) – System Dynamics Modelling of Food Insecurity in Guatemala. Expected Graduation: Winter 2020. Role: Co Supervisor.
• Farzaneh Barak (PhD in Nutrition) – Household decision-making in nutrition-sensitive agricultural interventions (NSAI) and its effect on maternal and child nutritional status and household food security in Zambia. Role: Supervisor. Expected Graduation: 2019
• Nnedimma Nnebe (PhD in Nutrition) – Post-harvest technologies and food security in four Sub-Saharan African countries. Role: Supervisor. Expected Graduation: 2019
• Luisa Samayoa (PhD in Nutrition) - Youth in action: developing a counselling system/model led by Chortí Maya youth to improve maternal and child health in communities of the municipality of Jocotan, department of Chiquimula (Guatemala). Role: Supervisor. Expected Graduation: 2021.
• Akankasha Sen (PhD in Nutrition) – Diabetes, depression and dietary intake, a cohort study. Role: Supervisor. Expected Graduation: 2022.
• Elizabeth Hernández (PhD in Nutrition) – Nutrition Education: a venue to reduce food waste at the household level. Role: Supervisor. Expected Graduation: 2024.