Congratulations to winners at the Life & Health Sciences Research Expo

Congratulations to our winners at the 30th Annual University of Saskatchewan Life and Health Sciences Research Expo!

By Tyson Brown

 

The tight interconnectedness between the fields of Public Health and Nutrition was definitely on display at this year's University of Saskatchewan Life and Health Sciences Research Expo.  Congratulations to Dr. Hassan Vatanparast (joint faculty with the School of Public Health and the College of Pharmacy and Nutrition and head of the Vatanparast Nutritional Epidemiology Lab) on winning the Best Supervisor award at this year's Research Expo.

VNE Lab Members with Dr. Adam Baxter-Jones

 Dr. Vatanparast is pictured here at the Expo with Dr. Adam Baxter-Jones (center-right) and members of his VNE Lab team (from left to right Karim Karbin (PhD Nutrition Student), Zoe Longworth (Project Manager), Mojtaba Shafiee (Lab Manager), Hassan Vatanparast, Samy Abdullah (Masters Candidate in the MPH program), Dr. Adam Baxter-Jones, Michele Monroy Valle (PhD Student in Epidemiology, MPH graduate), Yu Ling, Shirly Lim (visiting scholar from UMT Malaysia) and Izuchukwu Ejie (MPH Public Health Student)).

 Dr. Hassan Vatanparast with his PhD Nutrition Student Mojtaba Shafiee

Dr. Vatanparast was nominated for Best Supervisor by Mojtaba Shafiee, his PhD student in Nutrition.  Mojtaba won Second place in Social & Population Health 2 for his poster "Food security implications of COVID-19 pandemic among Indigenous peoples living in urban areas of Saskatchewan, Canada"

Michele Monroy-Valle with her Research Expo poster

Michele Monroy-Valle won first place in the category Social & Population Health 1 at the Expo for her poster "Uncovering the hidden toll of inadequate resources on Indigenous Mayan Children:  The devastating association with bone quality".  In addition, Michele was awarded the Sustainability & Planet award in the Sustainable Progress Research Awards category for her same poster.

 

Samy Abdullah with his Research Expo poster 

 Samy Abdullah, also an MPH graduate and a member of Dr. Vatanparast's VNE Lab team, co-supervised by Dr. Michael Szafron and Dr. Vatanparast, took home the Sustainability & People award in the Sustainable Progress Research Award category, for his poster "A comparative study of the effectiveness of a local fortified food and peanut-based ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF) for outpatient treatment of child malnutrition: A community trial in San Salvador"