Lynn McIntyre

Lynn McIntyre is professor emerita of Community Health Sciences and member of the O’Brien Institute for Public Health at the University of Calgary, and a PROOF founding researcher.

Articles by this author

Food banks can’t adequately address COVID-19 food insecurity

When the Prime Minister announced $100 million to support food banks and other community food programs during COVID-19, he was throwing aside everything we know about food insecurity in Canada. We know it is a …

Food insecurity policy is not the flipside of food security policy

When I think back to my report on child hunger in Canada, published on World Food Day in 2000, and the media attention it garnered, it seems as if we have come a long way …

Food Security: More Than a Determinant of Health

Food used to be called a basic human need along with water, peace, shelter, education and primary health care. It has also been called a prerequisite for health. Food security is now listed among the …