Lana Vanderlee

Dr. Lana Vanderlee is a Canada Research Chair in Healthy Food Policy. With a PhD in Public Health, Dr. Vanderlee conducts research examining the impacts of food policies on population health. She conducts national and international research to better understand what governments can do to support healthy eating. Her research program also focuses on the commercial determinants of health, to examine how the food industry and the current food system might influence dietary patterns.

Dr. Vanderlee has more than 120 peer-reviewed publications in leading nutrition journals, and her research is funded by the major national funding agencies including the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Health Canada and others.