Associate Professor & Canada Research Chair
Food, Nutrition and Health Program | Faculty of Land and Food Systems
Centre for Health Services and Policy Research (CHSPR) | Faculty of Medicine
Investigator, BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute (Healthy Starts)
The University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus
Research Fellow, Food, Nutrition and Public Health Analytics | United Nations University (UNU-INWEH)
Dr. Mahsa Jessri leads the “Causal Impact of Nutrition Policies” theme. She brings specialized expertise in nutritional epidemiology and health outcome projection modeling for policy evaluation. Her excellence is recognized internationally; she served as a Core Member of Health Canada’s Nutrition Science Advisory Committee and as the Statistical Editor for the Public Health Nutrition journal. As a core member of the American Society for Nutrition/Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics “Artificial Intelligence in Nutrition Research Taskforce,” she bridges nutritional science with AI developments. Her leadership ensures that the cluster’s insights directly impact policy-making and public health interventions.
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42134415/
- Buttar A, Hu X, Sobolev B, Kuramoto L, JESSRI M. Alignment with Front-of-Package Labelling Policy and Risk of Hospitalization: Evidence from Canadian National Nutrition Survey Linked to Routinely Collected Health Administrative Databases. Am J Clin Nutr. 2026 Mar;123(3):101191. doi: 10.1016/j.ajcnut.2025.101191
- JESSRI M, Jacobs A, Ng AP, Bennett C, Quinlan A, Nutt C, Brown J, Hennessy D, Manuel D. Development and Evaluation of the Dietary Pattern Calculator (DiPaC) for Personalized Assessment and Feedback. Can J Diet Pract Res.2024 Mar 1;85(1):25-31. doi: 10.3148/cjdpr-2023-013.