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Dr. Ann Fox

Dr. Ann Fox
Interim Associate Dean, School of Business / Faculty of Education and Professional Studies - School of Business
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Administration
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About
Ann Fox has enjoyed a 40-year career as a dietitian, administrator, educator and researcher. Ann completed her undergraduate degree in Food and Nutrition at Toronto Metropolitan University, a dietetic internship at St Michael’s Hospital in Toronto, and a Master of Health Science degree in Community Nutrition at the University of Toronto. After working in clinical and administrative roles in women’s health, diabetes education, chronic disease prevention, and community health, Ann obtained a PhD in Nutritional Sciences from the University of Toronto and went on to leadership roles at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health (University of Toronto), and the Department of Human Nutrition at St Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia.
Education is central to Ann’s work including program innovation, curriculum design, and the scholarship of teaching and learning. Her focus is on supporting learners through creativity and innovation, advancing professional practice, and community engagement.
Ann works toward reconciliation and has partnered with Mi’kmaw leaders and communities in Nova Scotia to support Indigenous food systems, and to bring Two-Eyed Seeing and Indigenous ways of knowing to courses she has taught.
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Research

Recent research has explored intergenerational learning about Mi’kmaw food systems, as well as workforce development needs of nutrition professionals in the post COVID-19 era.

Other Contributions:

Co-Chair, National Task Force on Public Health Nutrition Workforce Development

Senior Research Scientist, St Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia

Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Public Health, Curtin University, West Australia

Publications

Select Publications:

Frank Nichols, S., Fox, A., and Olstad, H. (2025). A rapid assessment of the public health dietitian workforce in Canda: A call to action. Canadian Journal of Dietetic Practice and Research (in press).

Anderson, B., Vandeboer, E., Lordly, D. and Fox, A. (2025). Providing space for creative autonomy in health professional education: insights from a student-led dietetics knowledge mobilization module. Canadian Journal for Studies in Adult Education (under review).

Fox, A and Palermo, C. (2025). Dietetic workforce development in Canada and Australia: Towards a critical policy approach. Canadian Journal of Dietetic Practice and Research. (under review).

Fox A., Vandenboer E, Anderson B., Lordly, D., and Jamieson, J. (2025). “The year of give”: Dietitians’ experiences in Nova Scotia during the COVID-19 pandemic. Canadian Journal of Dietetic Research and Practice. 86 (2): 76-83

Fox A., Bujold R., and Pictou K. (2024). Land2Lab Project: Reflections on learning about Mi’kmaw foodways. Canadian Journal of Dietetic Research and Practice 1;85(2):101-105.

Jamieson, J., Vandenboer, E., Anderson, B., Lordly, D., MacDonald B., and Fox, A. (2024). Changing roles and responsibilities of dietitians from diverse settings during the first three waves of the Covid-19 pandemic. Canadian Journal of Dietetic Research and Practice. 85(1).

Bujold R., Fox, A. and Martin, D. (2023). Sharing intergenerational food stories on the land and online to engage Mi’kmaw children. Healthy Populations Journal. 3(1).

 Bujold, R., Fox, A., Prosper, K. Pictou, K. and Martin, D. (2021). Etuaptmumk-Two-Eyed Seeing: Bringing together land-based learning and online technology to teach Indigenous youth about food. Canadian Food Studies 8(4) 49-63.

Choi, B., Bilotta, R., Krahan, K., Gupta, N., King, A., Dimaras, H., Fox, A., Rachlis, B., Wei, X., Morris, S., Selby, P., Harvey, B., Gibson, B., Reynolds, D., Bhuiyan, S., Crowcroft, N., Onye, N. and Upshur, R. (2021). Defining clinical public health. CIM 44(2).

Fox, A., Currie V. and Brennan, E. (2018). Exploring the impact of community-based arts programming on determinants of health using secondary evaluation data. Canadian Journal for the study of Adult Education 30 (2), 57-68.