We believe that discussion of research findings and issues is an important part of conducting research. Dr. Leah Cahill has media training and interview experience promoting public health and nutrition across media channels including radio, TV, and print. 

Leah Cahill on mindful eating over the holidays: www.halifaxtoday.ca/local-news/dalhousie-dietitian-recommends-mindful-eating-over-the-holidays-1982340

Sharing our results from the Canadian component of the Global Burden of Disease Study: http://nsha-research-in-progress.blogspot.com/2019/03/researchers-point-to-diet-and-lifestyle.html

CBC Radio Maritime Noon phone-in with Leah Cahill: https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1431972419638

Global News: https://globalnews.ca/video/9257482/dal-study-looks-at-accuracy-of-top-selling-nutrition-books/ 

SALTWIRE: https://www.saltwire.com/cape-breton/news/beware-of-unqualified-nutrition-authors-halifax-researchers-say-100797785/?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1669083326 

TIME: http://time.com/2907248/fried-food-linked-to-diabetes-and-heart-disease-with-an-asterisk/

Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/alicegwalton/2013/07/23/why-is-skipping-breakfast-so-bad-for-our-heart-health/#33ac71382c01

CBC: https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/skipping-breakfast-may-increase-heart-attack-risk-1.1353996

The Independent: https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/news/skipping-your-breakfast-can-increase-the-risk-of-heart-attack-by-almost-30-8726919.html

Huffington Post: https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/breakfast-most-important-history_us_5910054

NPR: https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2013/07/23/204567839/SKIPPING-BREAKFAST-IS-RISKY

Medical students Sidra Sarfaraz and Joe Loung's research receives a lot of media attention

With the release of their co-first authored paper in Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism (link to paper), Canadian popular media outlets were interested in helping them disseminate their research findings.  Here is Sidra being interviewed on TV by Global News about their project: https://globalnews.ca/video/9257482/dal-study-looks-at-accuracy-of-top-selling-nutrition-books/ 

New TRIC Funding for research to prevent hospital malnutrition

In early 2021 we heard that we were successful in receiving a Translating Research Into Care (TRIC) Grant from the QEII Foundation (thank you!) for the More-2-Eat Implementation project in Nova Scotia. Part of a national study to implement screening and diagnosis of malnutrition in Canadian hospitals, this work aims to confirm the resources and investments required to support a sustainable integrated nutrition pathway for acute care (a malnutrition screening, diagnosis and treatment system) and to determine whether improvement in detection and treatment of malnutrition leads to positive patient and hospital outcomes. See list of all recipients and a description of our project here. Read more about the More-2-Eat study here and here.

New Research Nova Scotia Funding

We are very thankful to Research Nova Scotia for the New Health Investigator Award! See a list of all 2020 recipients and a description of our project here.

CIHR Project Grant

We are very grateful to have received a spring 2020 Project Grant from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). It was our first large national grant competition and our application ranked in the top 5%. This competition was almost cancelled due to the pandemic, but then CIHR admin and thousands of reviewers rallied together and met virtually to make this round of funding possible, and we are so thankfull! Our project is a collaboration between nourish's Leah Cahill, Allie Carew, Rachel Warren, and skilled researchers from several Universities worldwide: Oxford (UK), University of South Wales (Australia), Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Columbia, University of Arizona, and University of Alabama (USA), and the Technion Israel Institute of Technology (Israel). Thank you CIHR for making this research project possible!