Bio
Daniel Zaltz is an Assistant Professor at the University of Ottawa School of Epidemiology and Public Health. He studies food policies, food systems, and commercial determinants of health. Much of his recent work focuses on free sugars, sugar-sweetened beverage taxes, marketing to children, and the development of methods to improve the way we track prices and ingredients in the Canadian grocery market.
Education and training
Daniel is a social and behavioural scientist. He completed his masters and doctoral degrees in public health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and postdoctoral training at the University of Toronto Temerty Faculty of Medicine.
Daniel has completed various fellowships, including doctoral training in clinical research and epidemiology in diabetes and endocrinology from the US National Institutes of Health, and postdoctoral training in population health research from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.
Publications
Daniel publishes original research, reviews, commentaries, and opinions in leading international journals of nutrition, public health, and health policy.
For a full list of publications, please see his Google Scholar page.
Media
See recent comments and coverage in Medpage Today, Quartz, The New Yorker, Healio, and Food Politics.