Monday Jan 16, 2023

Hasan Hutchinson, PhD

Board Treasurer/Director Atl’ka7tsem /Howe Sound UNESCO Biosphere Region

Discover the Howe Sound Biosphere

About the Speaker
- Dr. Hasan Hutchinson is the Treasurer and a Director on the Board of the Atl’ka7tsem/Howe Sound UNESCO Biosphere Region. Also Hasan is a Dialogue Associate with the Morris J Wosk Centre for Dialogue at Simon Fraser University, a member of the Policy Advisory Group at the World Cancer Research Fund International, and a member of the Advisory Board for the Centre for Studies in Food Security at Toronto Metropolitan University (until recently known as Ryerson University).
  
  Until 2019, and for the previous decade, Hasan was Director General of the Office of Nutrition Policy and Promotion of Health Canada, the focal point for public health nutrition within the federal government. The Office’s main functions include dietary guidance, food and nutrition surveillance, research and data analysis, health promotion and public health nutrition policy.
  Initiatives at Health Canada included the development and implementation of Canada’s Healthy Eating Strategy and the development of the latest iteration of Canada’s Food Guide (Evidence Review reports, Dietary Guidelines for Health Professionals and Policy Makers, Food Guide Snapshot for Canadians, and extensive resources and tools on the new cloud-based Food Guide web application).
  
  Hasan was a member of the group that developed the whole of government Food Policy for Canada (led by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada). He served as co-chair of Canada’s Dietary Reference Intakes Steering Committee, as co-chair of the Federal/Provincial/Territorial Group on Nutrition, as chair of the Multi-Stakeholder Working Group which produced the Sodium Reduction Strategy for Canada, and as chair of the multi-sectoral Network on Healthy Eating.
  
  He has been on a number of nutrition-related or health-related committees at the World Health Organization, the Pan American Health Organization, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, and at the United Nations.
  
  Previously, Hasan was Associate Director of the Institute of Nutrition, Metabolism and Diabetes at the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).
  
  Before working in the public service, Hasan was a faculty member in the Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery at McGill University. His formal education includes a PhD in Evolutionary Genetics and an ND in Naturopathic Medicine.
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In September, 2021, UNESCO announced that the Howe Sound region of British Columbia would become Canada’s 19th biosphere region and B.C.’s third, after Clayoquot Sound and Mount Arrowsmith on Vancouver Island.

Today the The Howe Sound Biosphere Region Initiative Society is working on many fronts to achieve the vision for this new Biosphere. Hasan will describe this vision, and discuss the opportunities and challenges for the future. He will also clarify the mission, purpose, and values of the society.

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