Dr. Gail Hammond


Associate Professor

Faculty of Land and Food Systems

University of British Columbia

Academic Collaborator

Grounded in my professional practice as a nutrition educator in the community and in academia, my research activities have focused on:

  1. Gaining understanding of how decision-making processes influence women’s food choices and examining use of this information to improve food choice behaviours.
  2. Examining processes used to develop nutrition communication/education resources for the purpose of improving knowledge translation and consumer education.

Area of Research Expertise
Food choice; Decision-making; Sex; Gender; Knowledge translation

First Nations land acknowledegement

We acknowledge that the UBC Point Grey campus is situated on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) people.


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