Dr. Malek Batal is Professor at the Université de Montréal's Faculty of Medicine and School of Public Health and Director of the WHO-Collaborating Centre on Nutrition Changes and Development. Holder of the CRC in Nutrition and Health Inequalities, he conducts participatory research studying the link between environment and food system health and population health, in an effort to redress health inequities. He operates in transdisciplinary research teams with First Nations in Canada and Indigenous and rural people internationally, prioritizing engagement with knowledge users from government and civil society and putting his research findings at the service of public policy.