Moderator - Brian Cook

Brian Cook is a researcher at the Toronto Public Health Department, with a focus on food policy issues. In 2008, his work on children's advertising led the Toronto Board of Health and the Ontario Public Health Association to call for a national ban on commercial advertising targeted to children. He has also done research on children's advertising for the Public Health Agency of Canada and is involved in an international research project on children's exposure to TV food advertising. Brian is currently the lead researcher/writer for the Toronto Food Strategy project.