Impact of a school snack program on the dietary intake of grade six to ten First Nation students living in a remote community in northern Ontario, Canada

Kelly Skinner

qualifications: MSc, MPH

contribution: original concept, designed the project, literature review, collected data, statistical analysis, wrote the first draft, contributed to drafts

position: Postgraduate student

Canada

Research interests: Aboriginal health, northern and remote health, nutrition, food security, knowledge exchange, program evaluation.

Rhona Hanning

qualifications: PhD

contribution: original concept, devised survey tool, contributed to drafts

position: Associate professor

Key words: Nutrition and dietary assessment; School based and community intervention and program/ policy evaluation; children/ adolescents/ Aboriginal populations; obesity

Joan Metatawabin

contribution: designed the project, supplied data, supervised data collection, contributed to drafts

position: School Nutrition Coordinator

Ian Martin

qualifications: PhD

contribution: statistical analysis, contributed to drafts

position: Statistical consultant

Leonard Tsuji

qualifications: PhD

contribution: original concept, designed the project, contributed to drafts

position: Professor