Brittany Wenniser铆:iostha Jock
Brittany Jock, PhD.
Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine.
Member, Centre for Indigenous Peoples鈥� Nutrition & Environment (CINE).
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Brittany Jock, is Bear Clan from the Akwesasne Kanien鈥檏eh谩:ka (Mohawk) Territory. She obtained her bachelor鈥檚 degree from Syracuse University in chemistry. She holds a master鈥檚 degree in epidemiology and a doctorate in social and behavioral interventions from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. Her public health training centers on the design and application of mixed methods research and the development, implementation, and evaluation of health programs.
Research interests:
Professor Jock鈥檚 research combines epidemiology with social and behavioral science to respond to the obesity and chronic disease inequities experienced by Indigenous Nations and communities. Her research focuses on responding to the dietary shift from Indigenous traditional food systems to highly processed market food systems that resulted from the ongoing colonization of Turtle Island (North America). Professor Jock鈥檚 research is in the following streams: nutrition status and diabetes prevention interventions; Indigenous food sovereignty; influence of social determinants in shaping Indigenous health; and Indigenous methodologies for Knowledge Translation. She employs qualitative methods to develop interventions, quantitative research methods to evaluate interventions, and community-based participatory research to guide the involvement of Indigenous Nations in her research. She is honoured to work in the ancestral territory of her people.
