Peter R. Berti, PhD

Deputy Director / Nutrition Advisor

Dr. Berti joined PATH Canada (now HealthBridge) in 1998. As Nutrition Advisor he is responsible for ensuring the technical quality of all HealthBridge's work in food and nutrition research and programming. Much of his work has been in the Americas (Brazil, Ecuador, Bolivia and Canada) where he has conducted research and managed programmes in food fortification, nutritional assessment, and risk analysis and management, and more recently in the integration of food and nutrition interventions into agriculture interventions.

Education and training

Post-doctoral Fellowship at McGill University, 1996-1998. Risk-Benefit analysis of Canadian Indigenous diet.

Ph.D., University of Guelph, Applied Human Nutrition, 1992-1996. Dissertation: Dietary adequacy and its relationship to anthropometric status in a highland Ecuadorian community.

Publications

Five most recent publications:

Berti PR, Soueida R, Kuhnlein HV (2008). Dietary assessment of indigenous Canadian Arctic women with focus on pregnancy and lactation. International Journal of Circumpolar Health 67(4): 349-362.

Stern LJ, Killough SA, Borja RM, Hernidiah N, Joicey P, Berti PR, Sherwood S. Bringing agriculture and health workers together. LEISA (2008) 23(3):6-8.

Kuhnlein HV, Receveur O, Soueida R, Berti PR. Unique patterns of dietary adequacy in three cultures of Canadian Arctic indigenous peoples. Public Health Nutrition (2007) 5:1-12.

Bezner Kerr R, Berti PR, Chirwa M. Breastfeeding and complementary feeding practices in Malawi: timing, reasons, decision makers, and child health consequences. Food Nutr Bull (2007) 28:90-99.

Kuhnlein HV, Barthet V, Farren A, Falahi E, Leggee D, Receveur O, Berti PR (2006) Vitamins A, D, and E in Canadian Arctic Traditional Food and Diets. J Food Comp Anal 19:495-506.

Author of 14 other peer-reviewed publications between 1995-2005.

Author of 29 technical reports on food fortification, the diet of Canadian Indigenous, health and nutrition in Malawi, and other health and nutrition topics.

Author of 25 presentations at nutrition, health and anthropology conferences 1993-2008.

PI or Director of 14 research or development grants, and Technical Support on nine research grants, valued at approximately CAD $4 million.