The Ontario Collaborative Group on Healthy Eating and Physical Activity initiated the process to create the Ontario Food and Nutrition Strategy and has continued to lead it.
The Collaborative Group has brought together food and food system experts from across the province to act as the Design Team, guiding the process of creating the strategy.
The groups that are part of the Ontario Food and Nutrition Strategy Design Team (as of October 2014) are:
Cancer Care Ontario – Rebecca Truscott*
Canadian Cancer Society – Florentina Stancu-Soare/Joanne DiNardo
Canadian Diabetes Association – Christine Albee
Canadian Environmental Law Association- Theresa McClenaghan/Kathleen Cooper
Chiefs of Ontario – Bernadette deGonzague
Christian Farmers Federation of Ontario – Nathan Stevens
Dietitians of Canada – Lynn Roblin*/Leslie Whittington-Carter
Heart and Stroke Foundation – Coleen Hill
First Nations Inuit & Health Branch, Health Canada- Sharmaline Fernando
Nishnawbe Aski Nation – Wendy Trylinski
Ontario Federation of Agriculture – Neil Currie
Ontario Society of Nutrition Professionals in Public Health – Amy MacDonald /Lyndsay Davidson/Kim Ouellette
Organic Council of Ontario – Jodi Koberinski
Ontario First Nations Integrated Health Strategy Working Group – Marja George
Ontario Medical Association – John Wellner
Ontario Public Health Association – Karen Gough/Lynn Roblin
Public Health Ontario – Heather Manson/Mary O’Brien
Ryerson University – Jessica Wegener
Sustain Ontario – Ravenna Nuaimy-Barker*/Carolyn Young
Toronto Food Policy Council – Lauren Baker
University of Toronto/Memorial University – Cathy Mah
University of Waterloo – Rhona Hanning
Wilfrid Laurier University – Ellen Desjardins
University of Guelph – Ralph Martin
York University – Rod MacRae
Community Members – Cindy Scythes, Carol Dombrow, Sharon Zeiler, Lisa Mardlin Vandewalle, Connie Uetrecht
*Co-leads