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Tamara Cohen

December 12, 2019

Tamara Cohen

Director of Dietetics
Associate Dean, Students and Equity, Decolonization, and Inclusion
Assistant Professor, Food, Nutrition and Health

Investigator, Healthy Starts, BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute

604 827-0362

tamara.cohen@ubc.ca

FNH 218, 2205 East Mall

UBC Dietetics Major, Cohen Lab Website

Education

PhD McGill University- Area of Focus: Childhood Obesity Family-Based Lifestyle Intervention

MSc McGill University - Area of Focus: Lifestyle Behaviours during Pregnancy

BSc (Dietetics Major) - McGill University

Research

My broad research interests lie in understanding the interplay between different lifestyle behaviours, in particular eating behaviours, as they relate to weight management. My research is patient-oriented and always involves dietitians in the forefront of lifestyle interventions. I work with different populations, including adults living with an overweight condition or obesity and adolescents living with severe obesity. I am also interested in studying different methods of dietary assessment that include mobile applications.

Teaching

FNH 380- Professional Practice (Dietetics)

Selected Publications

Please see Google Scholar for a full list of publications.

Awards & Honours
  • 2021 CIHR Early Career Research Award in Maternal and Child Health
  • 2021 UBC Research Excellence Cluster Award
  • 2020 SSRHC Insight Development Grant
  • 2020 UBC SPARC Hampton Award
  • 2019 PERFORM Centre Multidisciplinary Research Award, Concordia University
  • 2018 R. Howard Webster Foundation
  • 2012 Canadian Institutes of Health Research Fredrick Banting and Charles Best Doctoral Research Award (PhD)
  • 2013 GREAT Travel Award, School Human Nutrition, McGill University (PhD)
  • 2012 Graduate Research Enhancement and Travel Award, McGill University (PhD)
  • 2014 Walter M. Stewart Postgraduate Scholarship in Agriculture, McGill University (PhD)
  • 2010 Provost Graduate Fellowship, School of Human Nutrition, McGill University (PhD)
  • 2009 Applied Population and Public Health Master’s Research Award from the Canadian Public Health Association, Canadian Institute for Health Information and the Government of Canada (MSc)
  • 2005 Canadian Institutes of Health Research Summer Student Award (BSc)
Additional Information

Undergraduate volunteer or Graduate Students: If you are interested in applied human-nutrition research that is dietetic practice focused, please do not hesitate to contact me (tamara.cohen@ubc.ca). In your email, please include your CV and a brief description of your research interests or intentions to volunteer in my lab.

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