Janice Daoust, MSc.
Senior Scientific Project Coordinator,
Bureau of Nutritional Sciences,
Food and Nutrition Directorate,
Health Products and Food Branch, Health Canada
Janice Daoust is a Senior Scientific Project Coordinator at Health Canada’s Bureau of Nutritional Sciences, where she leads work on nutrition-related regulatory policy. Since joining Health Canada in 2005, she has worked on a broad range of food and natural health product files, with a focus on food fortification policy. She has served as project lead for Canada’s vitamin D fortification strategy, including its development and implementation, and has advanced many initiatives that translate nutritional science into regulations. She has also contributed to surveillance-related research assessing vitamin D intake and status in Canada, providing expertise on food fortification to support the interpretation of findings and the evaluation of fortification policies. More recently, she has contributed to the modernization of regulations for infant foods and foods for special dietary use. Janice holds a Master of Science from the University of Guelph.
Hope Weiler, PhD.
Research Scientist,
Bureau of Nutritional Sciences,
Food and Nutrition Directorate,
Health Products and Food Branch, Health Canada
Dr. Hope Weiler is a Research Scientist in the Bureau of Nutritional Sciences, Food and Nutrition Directorate, Health Products and Food Branch at Health Canada. She joined Health Canada in 2018 to conduct research on fat-soluble vitamins, with emphasis on vitamin D status of people living in Canada. Prior to joining Health Canada, she was a professor at McGill University and held Canada Research Chair status from 2005 to 2018. She was an Associate Professor at the University of Manitoba (1996-2005) and was in receipt of a New Investigator Salary Award from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. To date, Dr. Weiler has authored over 200 peer-reviewed publications and has been awarded prestigious awards for research achievements on nutrition and bone health including: the Future leader Award from the International Life Sciences Institute; the Norman Kretchmer Memorial Award in Nutrition and Development from the American Society for Nutrition; the New Investigator Award from the Canadian Nutrition Society; and the Wiebe Visser International Nutrition Dairy Prize from the International Dairy Federation.
