Jean-Claude Moubarac

Jean-Claude Moubarac is an anthropologist and associate professor in public health and global nutrition at the Department of Nutrition at the University of Montreal. He is a full-time researcher at the Public Health Research Center at the University of Montreal. His work addresses the nutritional transition worldwide and its underlying causes, including the production and consumption of ultra-processed foods, the evaluation of public policies aimed at creating healthy sustainable environments with the International Network for Food and Obesity/non-communicable diseases Research, Monitoring and Action Support (INFORMAS), the influence of corporate political activities on policies and science, and the sociocultural dimensions of diets. He collaborated on the development of the Brazilian food guide in 2014 and wrote reports on the purchase of ultra-processed foods and obesity in the Americas for the Pan American Health Organization in 2015 and 2017. He has over a decade of research on ultra-processed foods and his a high-cited researcher in his field since 2020, according to Clarivate. He works currently in Canada, West Africa, Latin American and the Caribbean.