Dr. Andrew Mente, PhD, is as an Associate Professor in McMaster University Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact (HEI) and a Scientist at the Population Health Research Institute. He received a Research Fellowship from the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada and research support from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Public Health Agency of Canada. Dr. Mente studies the role of dietary sodium in cardiovascular diseases (CVD). His team conducted the largest ever epidemiologic study of the impact of sodium intake on blood pressure, cardiovascular disease risk, and mortality in the Prospective Urban Rural Epidemiology (PURE) study, a study of 102,216 individuals from 18 low, middle, and high-income countries on 5 continents. Dr. Mente’s work focuses on finding simple, practical, and accurate ways to measure sodium and potassium intake in diverse populations for use in large population studies. This work has become a standard for comparison in other studies that followed, which have tested different formulae for use with different urine collection protocols. Recently, Dr. Mente and his team developed an evidence-based healthy eating pattern that is associated with health outcomes and is globally applicable using data from PURE and replicated it in five independent studies on a total of 245,000 people from 80 countries. This is the largest and most diverse study ever on diet and health outcomes.