Lesley Frank

Tier II Canada Research Chair in Food, Health, and Social Justice at Acadia University and Professor of Sociology. I use mixed-methods to address knowledge and measurement gaps on family and early childhood food insecurity. I research and publish in the areas of family poverty, food insecurity, and health inequality, and I'm a leading scholar of infant food insecurity in Canada. I am a long-standing author of the annual Nova Scotia Child and Family Poverty Report Cards as a Research Associate with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives-NS, and Steering Committee member of the national organization Campaign 2000. Prior to my academic life, I was a community-based researcher and spent several years providing pre-natal services and support to families living in low-income circumstances in the Annapolis Valley - Nova Scotia. I am the author of the book, Out of Milk: Infant Food Insecurity in a Rich Nation (UBC Press, 2020)