JOANNAH (SMITH) LAWSON is a nutrition consultant who focuses on prevention of chronic disease through nutritional change at organization and community levels. Before training as a nutritionist, Joannah had a successful career specializing in organizational change in the telecommunications industry.  In partnership with her husband Brian Lawson, they established a family foundation with a mission to improve quality of life through nutrition to reduce the economic and humanitarian burden of chronic disease on society.  A key recipient of their philanthropic focus is the Joannah and Brian Lawson Centre for Child Nutrition in the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine.  The Centre brings world-class talent and resources together to tackle the most important nutrition-related health issues facing children and their families in Canada and around the world.  Joannah completed graduate studies at the University of Toronto.  She and her husband Brian have three children and live in Toronto.