About Us
Enhancing the Assessment, Monitoring and Evaluation of Nutrition
A fundamental approach to reduce poverty worldwide is to assure the availability of sufficient food that is both palatable and nutritious. The combination of these is referred to as food security. Central to this concept is the enhancement of the nutritional status of children and women of reproductive age.
Our research program at McGill University is primarily focused on augmenting diet diversity, food quality and food safety. To achieve this, we study how these factors are related to food production and food processing. Our current project is funded by IFAD. The main thrust of this project is to investigate how policy designers and managers create and carry-out nutrition-sensitive projects with as ultimate objective the improvement of diet quality and diversity indicators.
Nutrimetrics Team Members
Robert Kok attended the University of Western Ontario, from which he received a BESc in Chemical Engineering in 1969, followed in 1974 by a PhD in Biochemical Engineering. Since that time, he has been employed at McGill’s Department of Bioresource Engineering where he was granted tenure in 1984. Aside from his work in academe, he enjoys art, good food and discussion, and is an avid outdoorsman.
Dr. Ngadi is a Fellow of the Canadian Society for Bioengineering. He earned his doctoral degree from Dalhousie University (formerly TUNS) in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He previously worked with Laval University, Quebec and University of Georgia, Georgia before joining McGill University in 1998. He is a professional member of the Canadian Society for Bioengineering (CSBE), American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) and Institute of Food Technologists (IFT).
Dr. Ebenezer Kwofie, Team Member
Dr. Christopher Kucha, Team Member
Subeg Singh Mahal, Team Member
Serge Jabo Byusa, Team Member
Cynthia Malu, Team Member
Dr. Li Liu, Team Member
Arturo Mayorga Martinez, Team Member
Oluwaseyi Adeboye, Team Member
Ye Ma, Team Member