Explore the impact of nutrition on people through the various stages of the life cycle. This course will examine the nutritional needs necessary to promote healthy diets and lifestyles at particular life stages. An evaluation of how individual, family, community and societal factors affect overall nutrition and nutritional planning. Students should have a foundational level of knowledge in nutrition before enrolling in this course. NHW 100 is a pre-requisite for NHW 103.
No Scheduled Class Meetings, February 10 - April 20 (Online)
Location:
ONLINE
Instructor:
Kelsey Vercammen
Notes:
Pre-requisite: NHW 100
Instructors
Kelsey Vercammen
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Dr. Kelsey Vercammen is an instructor in the Nutrition, Health, and Wellness program at McMaster University. Her research portfolio focuses on nutritional epidemiology, with particular areas of interest including causes and points of intervention for obesity and food insecurity. Kelsey currently works as an Epidemiologist with the Public Health Agency of Canada. Prior to this, she worked as an Epidemiologist for The Regional Municipality of York.
Kelsey obtained her PhD in Population Health Sciences and Master of Science in Epidemiology at Harvard University. She is also an alumnus of McMaster University, where she obtained her Bachelor of Health Sciences.
