Miryem Salah has extensive academic and professional public health experience; she currently works in community development in the biggest food bank in Canada, Moisson Montreal. Previously, she worked as a nutritionist at Age Concern UK and was involved in educating the elderly on various aspects of healthy eating. Before this, she was involved in an anti-obesity programme, run by Social Action for Health. She also worked as a researcher at East London Food Access, designing and delivering an intervention that aimed at assessing the impact of nutrition on health and independence. Miryem graduated with a first class honour for her BSc in Human Nutrition. She then pursued her Master of Science at the prestigious medical school of University College London (UCL), UK. Her passion is in public health, focusing on the impact of nutrition and physical activity on health; she believes in the importance of prevention campaigns to lower the impact of major public health concerns such as obesity, cardiovascular disease, as well as communicable diseases.