Episode #29 with Dr. Barbara Seed

Dr. Barbara Seed is a Registered Dietitian with over 30 years of experience working in public health. In her work and volunteer capacities, she has straddled many sectors including government, civil society and academia. Barbara currently works as a consultant in food and nutrition policy, focusing on integrating nutrition, food systems and the environment. She led the development of the first dietary guidelines in Qatar in 2013 – one of the first in the world to include sustainability principles.

Barbara has since been working to advance the concept of integrating sustainable, healthy diets within national level dietary guidelines, as a lecturer and webinar speaker across Canada, publishing in peer-reviewed journals, and as one of the lead writers for the Dietitian’s of Canada (DC) Sustainable Food Systems role paper. In 2016, she wrote a background paper for Health Canada examining the integration of environmental sustainability principles into dietary guidance.