1.2 Hunger and Poverty - How Can We Make Change? With Dr. Tina Moffat

The Global Health Collective - With a Local Edge

Did you know there is food insecurity in your own neighborhood? What can you do to change that? and what ARE you going to do about it?

Join Dr. Tina Moffat as she discusses how to gain confidence in your abilities and seek to make sustainable change in your own community.

During this episode - Shania Bhopa and Dr. Moffat analyze the disparities that exist within Hamilton to understand how local issues are global issues, particularly hunger, and poverty.

Youth today need to take action and utilize their digital platforms to create change. Dr. Tina Moffat offers her advice to her "younger self" and how we can learn from her experiences.

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Shania Bhopa is a current McMaster Global Health graduate student who is passionate about health communications and knowledge translation. She is the founder and executive director of The Canadian Courage Project, a GTA based non-profit organization striving to assist homeless youth with animal companions. She is also an educator, with a micro-credential to teach children and young people about the Sustainable Development Goals. Shania spends her free time learning about mental health and health promotion and is currently writing a wellness book with an aim to help women with their health and well-being.

Dr. Tina Moffat’s current research focuses on knowledge translation and support for pregnant women regarding the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) as it relates to maternal diet and child health outcomes. This is a community study based in Hamilton called "Mothers to Babies" (M2B). As well, Moffat currently holds an SSHRC Research Engage Grant (2019-2020) to do research and evaluation of youth food programming at the Hamilton Community Food Centre (HCFC), part of a growing movement of Food Centres across Canada that move beyond charity models of food banks to support food insecure populations to access nutritious food in a dignified manner. Dr. Moffat has also done research on food security and dietary change among immigrants and refugees in Canada, based on a CIHR-funded research project called Changing Homes, Changing Food (2012-2015). Other research interests include vitamin D intake in North America, as well as the social and cultural determinants of child obesity.