Faculty Member
Eric Ng MPH, RD, PhD (C)
- Email Address(es)
- erickh.ng(at)utoronto.ca
- Website(s)
- LinkedIn, ResearchGate
- Division(s)/Institute(s)
- Clinical Public Health Division
- Position
- Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream
- Appointment Status
- Teaching Stream
- Admin Position
- Associate Director of MPH – Nutrition and Dietetics Program
Research Interests
- Critical Policy Studies & Social Policy
- Transformative food and dietetic pedagogies
- Health equity in community and public health practice
- Responsibilization of food and nutrition
- Neo-liberalization and nutrition policy
- Anti-oppressive practice
- Race & racism in dietetics
- Practitioner Perspectives on the Social Determinants of Health
- Street-Level Bureaucracy
Teaching:
CHL 5650H F Foundations of Practice I
CHL 5562H F Foundations of Practice III
CHL 5653H S Community Nutrition
Publications:
- Ng, E. (2023). Ethnic food practices, health, and cultural racism: Diabetes risk discourse among racialized immigrants in Canada. Canadian Food Studies / La Revue Canadienne Des études Sur l’alimentation, 10(1), 33–40. https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i1.548
- Ng, E. (2023). Responsibilization of healthy eating and the 2019 Canada’s Food Guide. Journal of Critical Dietetics, 6(3), 158-167. https://doi.org/10.32920/cd.v6i3.1475
- Dacunha, C., Ng, E., & Elton, S. (2022). The school food solution: Creating a healthy school food environment with Canada’s Food Guide. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 12(1), 157–169. https://doi.org/10.5304/jafscd.2022.121.010
- Ng., E. & Cole, D.C. (2022). From tensions to transformation: Teaching food systems in a graduate dietetics course. Canadian Food Studies, 8(4), 82-97. https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i4.462
- Wellington, M., Lee, M., Ng, E., Mensah, R. (2021). Opening the door to dialogue: Experiences of equity-seeking students in dietetic education. Journal of Critical Dietetics, 6(1), 59-63.
- Ng, E. & Wai, C. (2021). Towards a definition of anti-oppressive dietetic practice in Canada. Journal of Critical Dietetics, 5(2), 10-14. https://doi.org/10.32920/cd.v5i2.1407