Connie Nelson, PhD, is a professor in Lakehead University's School of Social Work, Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences, a member of the Faculty of Graduate Studies for the Master of Public Health and Forest Sciences Ph.D. program, and Director of the Food Security Research Network. Dr. Nelson contributes expertise in community-based orientations to social work practice; as well as topics of food security, local food systems, social capital, and community capacity building. She also contributes a strong network of relationships with First Nations communities and municipal-based organizations in Northwestern Ontario. Dr. Nelson co-founded, with Director Alan MacKenzie, the Lakehead University Centre for Analytic Services (LUCAS) which is a key part of the university's infrastructure for research. Dr. Nelson has established a nationally recognized expertise in human subject ethics issues and has been both the Chair and member of several NCEHR site visit teams where her expertise in dealing with issues of qualitative research and the ethics review process have proven extremely beneficial.

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