Elise Pauzé, RD, MSc

PhD Candidate

Elise is a registered dietitian with a master’s degree in Interdisciplinary Health Sciences. She is currently a PhD Student in Population Health at the University of Ottawa. She has done research on food and beverage marketing to children in Canada in various media (digital, television) and settings (schools, recreational sports, community events) for more than 8 years. Her doctoral research is funded by CIHR and is focused on food company sponsorship of children’s sports. Elise is also conducting research on other sports-related food advertising, food advertising expenditures, the food industry’s promotion of corporate social responsibility initiatives, and on social disparities in food advertising exposure in multiple policy environments.

Previously, Elise has done research on the determinants of food access and diet quality of rural households in Haiti and has worked for a community-based research project examining the impact of immigration on the dietary behaviours and nutritional status of immigrant children living in Ottawa. Outside of the research lab, Elise is currently doing research on food insecurity among students at the University of Ottawa and other Canadian post-secondary institutions.

Ashley Amson, MPH

PhD Candidate

Ashley is a Population Health PhD Candidate at the University of Ottawa and a Policy Analyst with Indigenous Services Canada. Her research will explore the digital marketing of unhealthy food and beverages to adolescents, with a focus on exposure, perception and vulnerability through a gendered lens. 

Her previous research centered on community-based, participatory research with Indigenous populations in Alberta and Ontario. Prior work experiences include: Instructing and Practicum Coordination at the University of Lethbridge; Project Coordination at Laurentian University; Epidemiological analysis with Correctional Services Canada; and an internship at the OECD that focused on economic analysis of obesity prevention interventions.

Julia Soares Guimarães, RD, MSc

PhD Candidate

Julia is a PhD student in Population Health at the University of Ottawa. She also has an undergraduate and a Master’s degree in Nutrition and Health from the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Brazil. She has done research on nutrition environments since 2014, and her major area of research is food marketing, especially television advertising. Currently, Julia is involved in research on nutrition labelling and on food advertising across 5 countries. She is also involved in research on television food advertising in Canada over time. Her PhD thesis will examine the effects of food and beverage advertising on television among children.  

Farah Hatoum, MPH

PhD Candidate

Farah has a master’s degree in public health from the George Washington University in Washington, D.C., USA. She is currently a PhD student in the Population Health program at the University of Ottawa and is doing research on food and beverage marketing both in Canada and the USA. Her research interests include alcoholism, adolescent obesity, and maternal and infant health and nutrition. In addition to doing research at the OUTLIVE Lab, she works for Dr. Jeffery Jutai as the research coordinator of uOttawa's AGE-WELL program at the Interdisciplinary School of Health Sciences. Her PhD research will focus on the marketing of alcohol in Canada in teens.