Dr. Daniel Zaltz is an Assistant Professor in the School of Epidemiology and Public Health at the University of Ottawa. He is a social and behavioural scientist and received an MPH and PhD from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, with postdoctoral training at the University of Toronto Temerty Faculty of Medicine. Dr. Zaltz received a doctoral fellowship from the US National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases in clinical research and epidemiology, as well as a postdoctoral fellowship in population health research from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.
Dr. Zaltz studies food policies, food systems, and the commercial determinants of health. His current work focuses on free sugars, beverage taxes, marketing to children, and the improvement of methods to monitor food prices and ingredient formulations in the Canadian grocery market. He is sits on the editorial board of various leading health and nutrition journals, and maintains partnerships with international public health organizations including INFORMAS Canada.