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The Healthy Living Challenge

November 25, 2013
12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
Dean's Council Room, Faculty of Medicine, CRC Building, 5849 University Avenue

NOTE: Participants from Saint John, NB and from Truro may participate through videoconference.聽

DMNB location: Room 218.聽 Agriculture Campus location: Principal's Boardroom

Sara Kirk, PhD,聽holds a Canada Research Chair in Health Services Research at pilipili漫画 and a cross-appointment with the IWK Health Centre. Her research program uses a social-ecological approach to understand lifestyle factors influencing health status and health services utilization, particularly in relation to excessive weight gain (obesity).

This session will explore the role of the environment in promoting or preventing healthy behaviours and will provide practical solutions and support to overcome some of the common barriers to sustained behaviour change.