Student
University of Toronto, Canada
Sabrina Ayoub-Charette is a Doctoral student in the Department of Nutritional Sciences at the University of Toronto and the Clinical Nutrition and Risk Factor Modification Centre at St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Her early work focused on systematic reviews and meta-analysis of the effect of food sources of fructose-containing sugars on various cardiometabolic risk factors. More recently, Sabrina's interests have shifted towards the role of low- and no-calorie sweeteners in replacing added sugars in the diet, and their effects on health through the human gut microbiome. Currently, Sabrina the main data analyst and bioinformatician of the Strategies To OPpose SUGARS with Non-nutritive sweeteners Or Water (STOP SUGARS NOW) trial, which is a clinical trial investigating the effect of replacing sugar-sweetened beverages with non-nutritive sweetened beverages or water on the diabetes risk factors and the gut microbiome sugary beverage consumers living with obesity. Sabrina also serves as the main lab technician for the Sievenpiper and Chiavaroli labs at the University of Toronto.