Research chair from Cancer Care Ontario gives public lecture at UPEI on August 22
Dr. Scott Leatherdale, Research Chair in the Department of Population Studies and Surveillance at Cancer Care Ontario, will give a public lecture about his work with youth and adult populations to help reduce the future cancer burden in Canada on Friday, August 22.
The lecture, entitled 'Population-level data collection and knowledge exchange systems for physical activity promotion and obesity prevention: Current systems and emerging opportunities,' will take place from 9 to 10 a.m. in the lecture theatre in the Regis and Joan Duffy Research Centre at the University of Prince Edward Island.
Leatherdale is an assistant professor in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto and Health Studies and Gerontology at the University of Waterloo, and an associate scientist with the Canadian Cancer Society/National Cancer Institute of Canada's (CCS/NCIC) Centre for Behavioural Research and Program Evaluation (CBRPE). He is also a board member of the Institute Advisory Board for the Institute of Cancer Research (IAB-ICR) of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and an advisory board member of the National Cancer Institute of Canada (NCIC) Strategic Prevention Initiative.
For the last four years, he has conducted independent, original applied behavioural research. Primarily, he has played a prominent role as a principal investigator in the development of the School Health Action, Planning and Evaluation System (SHAPES) in conjunction with staff at the Centre for Behavioural Research and Program Evaluation of the Canadian Cancer Society/National Cancer Institute of Canada.
More recently, Leatherdale has taken a lead role in the development of the planning and infrastructure development for the Ontario Chronic Disease Cohort (OCDC). The OCDC is an emerging cohort platform which will allow etiologic studies that consider environmental, biochemical, and genetic risk factors for disease, early detection studies focused on blood-based biologic markers of early disease, and the evaluation of how policies and different environmental contexts influence health behaviours.
The lecture is presented by PEI HRI and CSHR at the University of Prince Edward Island.
