Sociology @AcadiaU, studies food insecurity, poverty, health equity, and social policy. Author -Out of Milk: Infant Food Insecurity in a Rich Nation (UBC Press)
Joined January 2013
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Dr. Lesley Frank retweeted
18 Jul 2025
⚠️Food insecurity doesn’t start in adulthood. It begins during pregnancy, and affects a child before they’re even born
Join us for a powerful webinar🌐:
“Food insecurity in the first 2001 days”
📝To register
visit our website🔗 bit.ly/4lnsLnG or
Scan the QR code!👇
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Dr. Lesley Frank retweeted
27 Jun 2025
We are celebrating another accolade this week. Our co-founder, Dr Rosie McNee receives the Faculty of Public Health Littlejohn Gairdner Award 2025. Rosie has been recognised for her work contributing to tackling maternal and infant food insecurity in Scotland.
#TeamFeed
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29 Apr 2025
My amazing pals at @feedukorg are doing the work! Did you know that parents in the UK cannot use loyalty points to buy formula? Formula for Change campaign heads to Downing Street metro.co.uk/2025/04/24/metro… via @MetroUK
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Dr. Lesley Frank retweeted
17 Dec 2024
⚡New release!⚡
@CCPANS 2024 Report Card on Child and Family Poverty in Nova Scotia finds the highest single-year increase of child poverty rates in 35 years. Nova Scotia still has the highest child poverty rate in Atlantic Canada.
Read the report➡️policyalternatives.ca/news-r…
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Dr. Lesley Frank retweeted
17 Dec 2024
Report finds Nova Scotia’s child poverty rate among highest in Canada
halifax.citynews.ca/2024/12/…
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Outlets across the Maritimes are covering the Child and Family Poverty Report Card, which records the highest single-year increase in child poverty since 1989 & provides recommendations for eradicating child & family poverty:policyalternatives.ca/news-r…
#NSpoli #childpoverty
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17 Dec 2024
The @fedfamilylab joins the @CCPANS to release the new report on Child and Family poverty in NS. A record high increase. @AcadiaU
New 2024 NS Child & Family Poverty Report Card records a historic single-year increase in child poverty, explores intersectional factors correlated with child poverty rates, & provides recommendations to address this troubling trend: policyalternatives.ca/news-r…
#NSpoli #childpoverty
ALT NEW RELEASE! 2024 REPORT CARD ON CHILD AND FAMILY POVERTY IN NOVA SCOTIA Swift Action is Needed for Child and Family Wellbeing New report records the highest single-year increase in child poverty in the 35 years since the federal promise to eradicate child poverty. policyalternatives.ca/2024NSreportcard All overlayed on a silhouette of a young boy
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It's critical to focus on the particular challenges faced by children under 5 and the devastating reality that a quarter of these children are food insecure. The first priority must be to address the key driver of families' poverty (lack of income) through a
#CashFirst approach.
The @EduPolicyInst has warned children under five are 25% more likely to experience food poverty than older children and it’s driving obesity and mental health crises.
It can also affect education – food poverty is associated with worse cognitive development, maths and vocabulary skills. Find out more. ⬇️
bigissue.com/news/social-jus…
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Dr. Lesley Frank retweeted
19 Nov 2024
📣NEW REPORT📣
The 2024 National Report Card, “Ending Child Poverty: The Time Is Now,” is out now. The report is an urgent call to action, putting forward 50 recommendations for #endingpoverty in Canada, once and for all. Read it now: campaign2000.ca/ending-child… #TimeIsNow #cdnpoli
ALT Graphic that reads "New Report. Ending Child Poverty: The Time Is Now. 2024 Report Card on Child and Family Poverty in Canada. Available at campaign2000.ca." Next to a photo of the cover.
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Dr. Lesley Frank retweeted
16 Nov 2024
Tune in to RTE1 on Monday 18th Nov to hear @Kennedy_ails and I speak with @KathrionaDev about infant and young child feeding in emergencies. Very excited to start disseminating the findings of this @hea_irl funded study next year. #iycfe #foodsecurity
15 Nov 2024
🍼🤱🧑🍼👶Can we prepare plans for feeding babies & young infants during national emergencies? In Monday's @10Things_ToKnow About #FoodSecurity, @KathrionaDev meets @WeAreTUDublin's @LizOSullivanPhD & @Kennedy_ails (& lots of adorable babies!) to discuss their hugely important #NorthSouthResearchProgramme project 🌍
📺Mon 18th Nov, 8.30pm @RTEOne
@hea_irl @Researchirel @IrishResearch @teagasc @MarineInst @BordIascMhara @EPAResearchNews @EPAIreland @MetEireann @NewDecadeFilms @rte
#10thingstoknowabout #scienceweek #nsrp
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13 Nov 2024
RT @CCPANS: Affordable Housing & Homelessness Working Group and the Strait Richmon Housing Matters Coalition partnered with Cape Breton Uni…
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9 Nov 2024
Fabulous talk by @amblyopics winner of the @csa_sociology Canadian Sociology Book Award for her book The New Spirit of Creativity @AcadiaSociology. So great to have you back. Top notch Canadian sociology
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29 Oct 2024
Yup, time to pay attention to social toxins.
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Dr. Lesley Frank retweeted
22 Oct 2024
Thanks @uoftmedicine for this feature! Have you heard of the Canada Prenatal Nutrition Program?
Across Canada, the CPNP provides important perinatal nutrition support to families navigating challenging life circumstances--but funding has *not* increased in over two decades
21 Oct 2024
Survey by @UofT researchers finds challenges and resilience in Canada Prenatal Nutrition Program. Read the story: bit.ly/40ccYk4
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20 Oct 2024
Packing my bag and excited to be heading to #NFNC2024 to be with old and new friends passionate about food security for pregnancy and the early years. A powerhouse of delegates. @nourishingftrs
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4 Oct 2024
Acadia’s postdoctoral fellow @JaneDFrancis shares how to promote equity in breastfeeding support
Our final day of the BFI National Symposium is a panel discussion & includes:
Dr. Jane Francis, PhD RD
Michelle Ward, BSW, RSW
Sheila Mills, NP, IBCLC, PNC(c)
#NBW2024 #healthequity #nationalbreastfeedingweek #breastfeeding #chestfeeding #healthcare #BFI #babyfriendlyinitiative
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4 Oct 2024
Fabulous engagement with the @BBCBFI this week. Great job Nova Scotia as host.
Speakers for Day 3 of our BFI National Symposium:
Looking forward to an excellent day of learning and sharing!
#bfi #babyfriendlyinitiative #breastfeeding #chestfeeding #infantnutrition #NBW204 #nationalbreastfeedingweek #healthequity #symposium
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27 Sep 2024
Excited for this! Last day to register
27 Sep 2024
Today is the last day to register for our conference on October 22nd 2024! ⏰
Don't miss out on some great talks by @balaraia @FloraD @FranklyLess @luseadra @Jzinga2 @ZoBell20 @ClareFarrand and many more
Register and view the full programme at research.ncl.ac.uk/nourishin…
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13 Sep 2024
Our @fedfamilylab has launched our new survey on infant food insecurities.
13 Sep 2024
The Fed Family Lab at Acadia University has launched a survey on caregivers’ experiences of infant food insecurities (infant formula shortages, and increasing costs of foods, impacts on breastfeeding) in Canada and the United States.
surveys.acadiau.ca/index.php…
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