Pamela Fergusson, PhD RD (Canada) has been a Registered Dietitian since 2001, earned her PhD in Nutrition at the University of Liverpool and her Master’s in International Health at Sweden’s Uppsala University, and has worked in the nutrition field in North America, Europe, Asia and Africa.  She has been a lecturer at the University of Chester UK, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Ryerson University (Ontario), University of Liverpool online MPH program, and since 2021 the University of Guelph (Ontario) Online Certificate program in Plant-based Diets.  She has served as a Food Security Analyst for the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine, and remains a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy UK.  Since 2022 she has worked as a dietitian for the Eating Disorders programs at Interior Health, a public health authority within British Columbia, following a number of years in the province in private practice as a Registered Dietitian,  promoting health and healing through plant-based nutrition.

Pamela has also worked for Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance (FANTA), providing training and support to USAID-funded nutrition projects in Africa and Asia.  She is the author or co-author of twelve nutrition-related papers in peer-reviewed journals, primarily dealing with the implications of nutritional status or malnutrition for care or survival of persons afflicted by human immunodeficiency virus.  Much of her work has focused upon the potential for nutritional interventions on behalf of HIV infected or susceptible children in resource-limited underserved settings, in countries such as Ghana, Malawi, Namibia and Zambia.  She also previously served as Dietitian Educator/Coordinator of the Vancouver-based Aboriginal Diabetes Awareness Prevention and Teaching Project (ADAPT).

Pamela is vegan, and helped her whole family transition to a plant-based lifestyle, and was the author of "Going Vegan for Beginners:  The Essential Nutrition Guide to Transitioning to a Vegan Diet", published by Callisto Media in 2021.  While carrying on her distinguished career in nutrition, dietetics and public health, she raised four children, and sustained a fitness level supporting marathon and half-marathon runs as well as speed-walking events.  She has long believed in the power of plants to promote mental and physical health, and her motto has been “Eat plants, and shine your light!”