Helen Vallianatos
Professor Helen Vallianatos is the Associate Dean of Students, in the Office of the Dean of Students, as well as a Professor in the Department of Anthropology, University of Alberta. Previously the Department’s Associate Chair, she worked to develop the experiential learning component of the BA Honours program and teaches courses such as Anthropology of Gender, Anthropology of Food, Health & Healing, Body and Health, Gender, Age & Culture, and Visual Anthropology. Professor Vallianatos has also previously served as Acting Vice-Provost and Dean of Students. She is a past winner of the Faculty of Arts research excellence award (2016) and the Faculty of Arts teaching award (2012).
Professor Vallianatos’ research and teaching focuses on the topics of food, gender, body, and health. She incorporates community-service learning (CSL), so that students can connect ideas from the classroom to everyday problems and realities. She is currently working with Dr. Alison Dunwoody (Sociology) on pedagogical papers evaluating CSL students’ learning.
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– Exploring Relationships with Food After Dietary Intervention in Patients with Colorectal Cancer: A Qualitative Analysis from The Protein Recommendations to Increase Muscle (PRIMe) Trial.
– Aboriginal And Immigrant Women’s Food Choices and Practices in Pregnancy: A Scoping Review
– Quantifying The Association Between Measured Features of The Built Environment and Individual Health Outcomes: A Cross-Community Comparison
– The Migrant Maternal: Birthing New Lives Abroad
– Understanding South Asian Immigrant Women’s Food Choices in The Perinatal Period
– Socio-Cultural Determinants of Physical Activity Among Latin American Immigrant Women in Alberta, Canada
– Community Lenses Revealing the Role of Sociocultural Environment on Physical Activity
– Exploring The Impact of Community Investment in Recreation Spaces on Health Equity and Physical Activity
– Optimizing Food Choices and Practices of Immigrant Women in The Perinatal Period: Perspectives from Rural and Remote Black Communities
– Community Health and The Built Environment: Examining Place in A Canadian Chronic Disease Prevention Project.
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