Position:  Assistant Professor, Departments of Human Nutritional Sciences and Community Health Sciences

Office:       
409 Human Ecology Building
Department of Human Nutritional Sciences
University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba
 R3T 2N2
CANADA

Phone: (204) 474-7322

Fax:  (204) 474-7593

e-mail: joyce.slater@ad.umanitoba.ca

Education:
Registered Dietitian
B.S.H.Ec.  University of Saskatchewan (1987)
M.Sc.  University of Manitoba (1992)
Ph.D.  University of Manitoba (2009)

Research Interests:
•    Community food and nutrition security
•    Influences on food choice
•    Nutritional needs of marginalized populations
•    Role of food literacy in health promotion and human ecology

Publications:

Slater, J, Is Cooking Dead? The state of Home Economics-food and nutrition education in a Canadian province. 2013. International Journal of Consumer Studies. doi: 10.1111/ijcs.12042.

Slater, J, Larcombe, L, Green, C, Slivinski C, Singer, M, Denechezhe L, Whaley, C, Nickerson, P, Orr, P. Dietary intake of Vitamin D in a northern Canadian Dene First Nation community. 2013. International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 72: 20723 - http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/ijch.v72i0.20723

Slater, J, Sevenhuysen, G, Edginton, B & O'Neil, J. 2012. “Trying to make it all come together”: structuration and employed mothers’ experience of family food provisioning in Canada, Health Promotion International, 27(3), 405-415.

Larcombe, L, Mookherjee, N, Slater, J, Slivinski, C, Singer, M, Whaley, C, Denechezhe, L, Matyas, S, Turner-Brannen, E, Nickerson, P, Orr, P. 2012. Vitamin D in a Northern Canadian First Nation Population: dietary intake, serum concentrations and functional gene polymorphisms.  PLoS ONE 7(11), 1-10.

Thompson, LH, Mahmud, SM, Keynan, Y, Slater, J, Dawood, M, Fowke, K, Van Caeseele, P, Blanchard, JF, and Becker, M. 2012. Serological survey of the novel Influenza A H1N1 in inner-city Winnipeg, Manitoba, 2009. Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology 23(2), 65-68.

Slater, J. HIV/AIDS and food security in resource rich settings. 2012. National Collaborating Centre for Infectious Diseases: Purple Paper. January; Issue 35. Ottawa, Public Health Agency of Canada http://www.nccid.ca/food-security

Slater, J. The state of Home Economics-nutrition and food skills in Canadian schools: Feasibility study. July 31, 2012. Ottawa, Health Canada.

Slater, J. Sevenhuysen, G, Edginton, B, O’Neil, J, Green, C. 2009. The growing Canadian energy gap: More the can than the couch? Public Health Nutrition 12(11), 2216-2224.

Slater, J. Green, C, Sevenhuysen, G, Edginton, B, O’Neil, J. 2009. Socio-demographic and geographic analysis of overweight and obesity in Canadian adults.  Chronic Diseases in Canada 30(1), 3-14.

Slater, J. 2007. Community food security: Position of Dietitians of Canada.  http://www.dietitians.ca/Dietitians-View/Community-Food-Security.aspx