Dr. Taru Manyanga, a UNBC faculty member with the UBC Master of Physical Therapy – North, is pursuing a one-year study that will bring together the voices of youth and other key partners living in northern BC to co-create sustainable interventions for promoting youth physical activity (PA) in the region.
Dr. Taru Manyanga, a UNBC faculty member with the UBC Master of Physical Therapy – North, is pursuing a one-year study that will bring together the voices of youth and other key partners living in northern BC to co-create sustainable interventions for promoting youth physical activity in the region. Manyanga and his team are supported by a Michael Smith Health Research BC Convening and Collaborating Award for this work.
The study’s team members include representatives from Northern Health, Carrier Sekani Family Services, local community, and UNBC. Dr. Manyanga and his team will spend the better part of the year hosting a series of brainstorming workshops across the region. The first of these workshops was held in Prince George at the end of March. Similar sessions will follow in the northeast and northwest later this year.
“In deciding which activities, we would like youth to consider being inclusive of different abilities, gender and other circumstances that tend to disadvantage others.”
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