Valerie Tarasuk

University of Toronto — Canada

Health Professions · Health Sciences

62h-index14.0kcitations203works1.52yr avg
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Research Topics

Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations(148), Homelessness and Social Issues(89), Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet(44), Child Nutrition and Water Access(43), Nutritional Studies and Diet(34)

Publications203 total

What Predicts Permanent Full-Time Job Holders Being Food Insecure?
Canadian Public Policy·2025
Food-based interventions to mitigate household food insecurity in Canada: a systematic review
Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Les preuves sont là : la prise de responsabilité doit être intégrée au processus d’élaboration des politiques visant à réduire l’insécurité alimentaire des ménages
Promotion de la santé et prévention des maladies chroniques au Canada·2025Open Access
Revue systématique des interventions axées sur l’alimentation pour atténuer l’insécurité alimentaire des ménages au Canada
Promotion de la santé et prévention des maladies chroniques au Canada·2025Open Access
The evidence is in: accountability needs to be injected into the policy-making process for household food insecurity reduction
Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada·2025Open Access
Poverty Reduction Politics and Food Insecurity: Better for High-Risk Groups?
Canadian Public Policy·2025
Health outcomes following childhood or adolescent exposure to household food insecurity: a rapid systematic review
Public Health Nutrition·2025Open Access
The Relationship between Diet Costs and Dietary Adequacy: A Scoping Review of Measures and Methods with a Focus on Cost Estimation using Food Supply Data
Journal of Nutrition·2024· 1 citedOpen Access
Cost of a Healthy Diet: A Population-Representative Comparison of 3 Diet Cost Methods in Canada
Journal of Nutrition·2024· 1 citedOpen Access
Prevalence of micronutrient inadequacy differs by severity of food insecurity among adults living in Canada in 2015
Applied Physiology Nutrition and Metabolism·2024· 3 cited
Household food insecurity is negatively associated with achievement of prenatal intentions to feed only breast milk in the first six months postpartum
Frontiers in Nutrition·2024· 6 citedOpen Access
The relationship between household food insecurity and overweight or obesity among children and adults in Canada: a population-based, propensity score weighting analysis
Applied Physiology Nutrition and Metabolism·2024· 3 cited
Feasibility and measurement error in using food supply data to estimate diet costs in Canada – ERRATUM
Public Health Nutrition·2024Open Access
Public policy interventions to mitigate household food insecurity in Canada: a systematic review
Public Health Nutrition·2024· 5 citedOpen Access
Food insecurity in Canada is the worst it’s ever been — here’s how we can solve it
2023
The association between household food insecurity and healthcare costs among Canadian children
Canadian Journal of Public Health·2023· 6 citedOpen Access
Household food insecurity and health service use for mental and substance use disorders among children and adolescents in Ontario, Canada
Canadian Medical Association Journal·2023· 11 citedOpen Access
Canada’s national food policy is at risk of enshrining a two-tiered food system
2023
<i>Canadian Nutrition Society</i> Dialogue on disease-related malnutrition: a commentary from the 2022 Food For Health Workshop
Applied Physiology Nutrition and Metabolism·2023· 3 citedOpen Access
Prevalence and sociodemographic correlates of food insecurity among post-secondary students and non-students of similar age in Canada
BMC Public Health·2023· 4 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Sharon I. Kirkpatrick(10), Rachel Loopstra(8), Naomi Dachner(6), Craig Gundersen(4), Joyce Cheng(3), Claire de Oliveira(3), Paul Kurdyak(3), Laurie Ricciuto(3), GH Beaton(3), Dorcas Beaton(2), James G. Wright(2), Claire Bombardier(2), Andrew Mitchell(2), Lindsay McLaren(2), Lynn McIntyre(2), George H. Beaton(2), Joan M. Eakin(2), F. K. Men(2), Jeffrey N. Katz(1), Anne H. Fossel(1)