About Elsie Azevedo Perry
MICRO-BIO
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Elsie Azevedo Perry is a Registered Dietitian working in public health in Ontario for almost 20 years. In the last six years, she has been the lead for the Locally Driven Collaborative Project (LDCP) - Healthy Eating Team which curently consists of...More
Elsie Azevedo Perry is a Registered Dietitian working in public health in Ontario for almost 20 years. In the last six years, she has been the lead for the Locally Driven Collaborative Project (LDCP) - Healthy Eating Team which curently consists of 17 public health units in Ontario, the Nutriiton Resource Center an Academic Advisor from the Univiersity of Waterloo. Public Health Ontario (PHO) supports applied research and program evaluation through the LDCP program. This program brings public health units together to develop and run research projects on issues of shared interest related to the Ontario Public Health Standards. Elsie is represeinting the LDCP Healthy Eating Team at the Food Studies Conference. in 2013, the team started with an exploratory study with high risk youth, young parents and young pregant femailes to explore the meaning of food skills. Findings from this study resulted in a more comprehensive definition of food literacy and model for program planning, policy and evaluation. In 2016, a socping reivew and a Delphi study were conducted to identify key attriubutes of food literacy which resulted in a revised Food Literacy Framework for program planning and evaluation. As a result of this research, food literacy includes interconnected attributes organized into the categories of food and nutrition knowledge; food skills; self-efficacy and confidence; food decisions; and ecologic (external) factors such as the food system and the social determinants of health. Currently a tool to measure the identified attributes of food literacy is being developed and validated with the previously identified priority populatoins of 2013. Elsie and her team have been engaged in extensive knowledge exchange activities to shift public health practice in Ontario to use food literacy as a comprehenisve fremework when planning, implementing and evaluating public health interventions that address healthy eating.
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EXPERIENCE
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Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge District Health Unit
- Public Health Nutritionist, RD
- Health Promotion
- July 2001 to Present
EDUCATION
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Univeristy of Saskatchewan
- MSc in Community Nutriitoin
- September 1996 to December 1999
Conducted both quantitative an qualitative research to understand and determined how nutrition professionals in Saskatchewan address alternative health practices.
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