Amy Caughey

Amy Caughey is a public health nutritionist in Nunavut. Over the past 20 years, she has worked with Nunavut communities to support food security, diabetes education, prenatal nutrition programming, school food programs, and zoonotic disease prevention, and food safety in the Arctic. She has worked with - and learned from - community health representatives, elders, hunters, families, researchers, health workers, and Inuit organizations across Nunavut. Amy is currently co-investigator on two research programs privileging Inuit knowledge in country food preparation, preservation, and food safety in a changing climate, and working to support country food as foundational food for Nunavummiut.

Amy is a registered dietitian and a certified diabetes educator, and holds a Master of Science in Human Nutrition and Metabolism (University of Aberdeen). She recently completed a PhD in Public Health (University of Guelph) focused on Inuit country food and nutrition in early life in Nunavut. Amy is of Euro-Canadian settler heritage, and originally from rural Ontario. She lives in Iqaluit with her family.