Asibul Islam Anik, MSc
PhD Candidate
Anik is a PhD student in the Epidemiology and Applied Health Research program at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa. His doctoral research focuses on comparing children’s exposure to digital food marketing across North America and examining how such food marketing influences dietary preferences and food consumption patterns by gender, income levels, and ethnicity. He holds a B.Sc. (Honors) and an M.Sc. (Thesis) in Population Science and Human Resource Development from the University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh. In addition, he completed a fully funded Postgraduate Certificate in Health Governance from the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Italy. With extensive experience in both quantitative and qualitative research, his academic interests encompass adolescent health, non-communicable diseases (NCDs), epidemiology, maternal and child Nutrition, program and policy impact evaluation, child maltreatment, psychometric validation, and mental health.
Farah Hatoum, MPH
PhD Candidate
Farah has a master’s degree in public health from the George Washington University in Washington, D.C., USA. She is currently a PhD student in the Population Health program at the University of Ottawa and is doing research on food and beverage marketing both in Canada and the USA. Her research interests include alcoholism, adolescent obesity, and maternal and infant health and nutrition. In addition to doing research at the OUTLIVE Lab, she works for Dr. Jeffery Jutai as the research coordinator of uOttawa's AGE-WELL program at the Interdisciplinary School of Health Sciences. Her PhD research will focus on the marketing of alcohol in Canada in teens.