The ISBNPA mentoring program
The ISBNPA mentoring program started in the first Annual meetings to offer members in the society with opportunities to connect and engage with other members at various stages in their careers. The program provides a platform for mentees and mentors to be matched based on interests and availability. Mentoring pairs may develop their relationship independently, however, the ISBNPA mentoring team also provide along the way if desired.
Here are some examples of support that the ISBNPA mentoring team offers:
- Online “meet the mentors” networking events
- Mentoring lunch during the annual meeting
- Bi-annual mentoring newsletter for participants in the program
- Yearly check-in and annual mentoring certificates for active mentees and mentors
We are currently looking for mentors (mid and late career) and mentees (at any stage in their career) to get involved in our program.
Are you looking for a mentor? (any career stage)
Do you want to get career and personal growth insights from mentors outside of your home university or research organization? The list of mentors who currently participate in the program can be found below.
To join the ISBNPA mentoring program as a mentee, please fill this [FORM] or use the QR code below.
Do you want to know more about how you can make the most of a mentee-mentor relationship? Watch this NESI/CBN seminar organized in partnership with ISPAH!
Do you want to become a mentor? (mid and late career researchers only)
Are you interested in sharing your career and personal knowledge with less-experienced researchers? Do you want to develop your leadership and support the new generation? We are currently looking for ISBNPA members to join our list of mentors. Mentees will only be assigned to you upon your approval and you will be in charge of how many mentees you take on.
To join the ISBNPA mentoring program as a mentor, please complete this short survey: forms.office.com/r/qpULrExdVa.
Attention members who are already involved in the mentoring program:
We would like to know who you are and how the program is working for you! We would like to track participation in the program and want to be able to continue to provide support to mentoring pairs. Please send the mentoring pair names and any feedback you may have on the program to: [email protected]
The chairs of the mentoring program
Alissa Burnett and Cynthia Smith
List of Mentors
Maureen Ashe
Country: Canada
Area/s of research: Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior
Bio: Maureen Ashe is a professor in the Department of Family Practice at The University of British Columbia, Canada Research Chair in Community Mobility, and a physiotherapist. Maureen’s research interests include interventions to encourage older adults’ engagement in physical activity, behavior change, digital health, and models of care such as reablement and social prescribing.
Main areas that I could provide mentoring in: Conducting research (e.g., recruitment, data collection, intervention delivery, analysis, writing etc.), networking and collaborations (e.g., building, maintaining), and time management (e.g. time pressure to complete degree/projects on time or within funding window).
ORCID or other scientific identifier: 0000-0002-6820-4435
Michael Beets
Country: United States of America
Area/s of research: Nutrition, Physical Activity, Sedentary Behavior, Sleep,
Bio: I am a public health commonsense’ist – someone who actively seeks to identify and understand basic principles that operate in “real life” systems that can be harnessed to create more effective public health interventions that address childhood obesity. I am working to address common issues faced by intervention scientists, through a great deal of effort (and a bit of luck), will help shape the direction of the field of public health interventions targeting childhood obesity.
Main areas that I could provide mentoring in: Funding/grant writing (e.g., availability and/or accessibility of funding opportunities, success rates etc), Leadership, Scientific writing.
Stuart Biddle
Country: Australia
Area/s of research: Physical activity and Sedentary Behaviour
Bio: I am a research professor in the Centre for Health Research at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia, now working part-time. I am also a Visiting Professor at the University of Jyvaskyla, Finland. My research is on sedentary behaviour and physical activity behaviour change, as well as mental health. I have been a Web of Science highly cited researcher and was ranked 19th all-time worldwide for career-long citation impact in ‘sport sciences’ up until the end of 2019. I am senior author of the book ‘Psychology of Physical Activity’, with the 4th edition published by Routledge in 2021. I have been involved in the production of physical activity and sedentary behaviour guidelines for Australia, Canada, UK, WHO, and for obesity in Singapore.
Main areas that I could provide mentoring in: Balancing teaching and research, Conducting research (e.g., recruitment, data collection, intervention delivery, analysis, writing etc.), CV building/preparing job applications/resumes, Employment (e.g., casual alongside studying, post PhD etc.), Funding/grant writing (e.g., availability and/or accessibility of funding opportunities, success rates etc), Leadership, Scientific writing, Time management (e.g. time pressure to complete degree/projects on time or within funding window), Travel (e.g., regionally, nationally, or internationally for meetings, conferences etc), and Supervising students.
ORCID or other scientific identifier: 0000-0002-7663-6895
Seb Chastin
Country: UK
Area/s of research: Physical Activity, Sedentary Behavior, and Sleep.
Bio: Sebastien Chastin is a Professor of Health Behavior Dynamics in the School of Health and Life Sciences at Glasgow Caledonian University and in the Department of Movement and Sports Sciences at Ghent University. He received BSc in metrology and applied physics, Master in Applied Physics a Master in Rehabilitation Sciences and a PhD in Non-linear physics. Previously he had posts at the British Antarctic Survey, Oxford and Edinburgh University. His research focuses on dynamics of health behaviour in relation to ageing, places and systems. Understanding why, when and how people decide to move or not, is crucial to promoting healthy movement behaviour and ageing.
Main areas that I could provide mentoring in: Leadership, Research culture (e.g., distrust related to science, changing landscape), and Work/life balance.
ORCID or other scientific identifier: 0000-0003-1421-9348, https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sebastien-Chastin-2.
Deirdra Chester
Country: United States
Area/s of research: Nutrition
Bio: Dr. Deirdra Chester serves as the Director of the US Department of Agriculture’s Office of the Chief Scientist (OCS). In this role, she leads OCS in delivering science and research that undergirds the policies and practices of USDA and its customers and stakeholders. Additionally, she steers collaboration activities for USDA science programs that support scientific excellence, innovation, and capacity to achieve the Department’s mission. Prior to this role, Dr. Chester was with the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) were she served as the Division Director for the Division of Nutrition. In this role, she provided leadership and oversight for the Division’s research, education, and Extension activities across the nation through competitive grant programs.
Main areas that I could provide mentoring in: CV building/preparing job applications/resumes, Employment (e.g., casual alongside studying, post PhD etc.), Funding/grant writing (e.g., availability and/or accessibility of funding opportunities, success rates etc), Leadership, Networking and collaborations (e.g., building, maintaining), Travel (e.g., regionally, nationally, or internationally for meetings, conferences etc), Work/life balance, and Supervising students.
Mai Chin A Paw
Country: Netherlands
Area/s of research: Physical Activity, Sedentary Behavior, and Sleep.
Bio: Mai dreams of a world where children grow up healthy and happy, with plenty opportunity for active play, inspiring education, and physical activities. Her research focuses on determinants, measurement, and health consequences of physical activity, sedentary behaviour, and sleep in youth. She enjoys contributing to innovating methodologies and combining multiple disciplines and perspectives. Growing up in a multicultural family, she learned to observe the world from various perspectives, enjoy diversity, believe in serendipity and search beyond the unexpected. Mai believes that involving children as co-researchers is not only possible, but necessary to develop better and more appropriate methods and interventions.
Main areas that I could provide mentoring in: Research culture (e.g., distrust related to science, changing landscape), Leadership, and Work/life balance.
ORCID or other scientific identifier: 0000-0001-6259-2441, Scopus ID: 26029744000
David Crawford
Country: Australia
Area/s of research: Nutrition and Physical Activity.
Bio: 40 years experience. Founding Executive Member of ISBNPA and Past President. Editor-In-Chief of IJBNPA. I established Deakin’s Centre for Physical Activity & Nutrition. I was Head School of Exercise & Nutrition Sciences at Deakin Uni. Published 350 papers; AU$w0 million grants, HiCi.
Main areas that I could provide mentoring in: Leadership, Time management (e.g. time pressure to complete degree/projects on time or within funding window), and Work/life balance.
Borja del Pozo Cruz
Country: Spain
Area/s of research: Physical Activity, Sedentary Behavior, and Sleep.
Main areas that I could provide mentoring in: Conducting research (e.g., recruitment, data collection, intervention delivery, analysis, writing etc.), Funding/grant writing (e.g., availability and/or accessibility of funding opportunities, success rates etc), and Scientific writing.
David Dunstan
Country: Australia
Area/s of research: Sedentary Behavior
Bio: David holds a joint appointment at the Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute and Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia with the positions of: Head – Baker/Deakin Department of Lifestyle and Diabetes and Chair, Lifestyle and Diabetes (Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition, Deakin); and Deputy Director/Physical Activity Laboratory Head (Baker).
His research focuses on understanding the adverse health consequences of too much sitting and the potential health benefits resulting from frequently breaking up sitting time. In particular, he has developed effective strategies to reduce and break up sitting time in adults with or at risk of developing chronic diseases and to support office workers to reduce sedentary behaviour in workplace settings.
Main areas that I could provide mentoring in: Communicating research findings outside of academia (e.g. public, practitioners, policy makers), Conducting research (e.g., recruitment, data collection, intervention delivery, analysis, writing etc.), and Leadership.
ORCID or other scientific identifier: 0000-0003-2629-9568
Nanna Lien
Country: Norway
Area/s of research: Nutrition
Bio: Professor Nanna Lien, Department of Nutrition, University of Oslo, Norway has more than 15 years of experience in school based intervention research in nutrition and obesity prevention. The focus of her research has developed from effectiveness studies testing interventions in randomized controlled trials to the challenges of achieving population impact of these interventions considering the complex systems in which they will be implemented. Understanding and preventing social inequalities in dietary behaviours and obesity has been a subtheme of her research throughout.
Main areas that I could provide mentoring in: CV building/preparing job applications/resumes, Funding/grant writing (e.g., availability and/or accessibility of funding opportunities, success rates etc), Leadership, Networking and collaborations (e.g., building, maintaining), Research culture (e.g., distrust related to science, changing landscape), Time management (e.g. time pressure to complete degree/projects on time or within funding window), and Work/life balance, All of the above, but to me mentoring is about exploring and learning together based on the need of the mentee.
ORCID or other scientific identifier: 0000-0003-1486-4769
Jennifer Linde
Country: United States
Area/s of research: Weight-related Health Interventions
Bio: My work focuses on weight-related health, with specific interests in intervention development and behavior monitoring during weight control. I was trained as a clinical psychologist and have additional experience in psychiatric diagnosis, psychotherapy, psychometrics, and questionnaire development.
Main areas that I could provide mentoring in: CV building/preparing job applications/resumes, Work/life balance, and Balancing teaching and research.
ORCID or other scientific identifier: 0000-0002-9033-2097
Corneel Vandelanotte
Country: Australia
Area/s of research: Physical Activity
Bio: I lead the Physical Activity Research Group and the 10,000 Steps program (with 600,000 members) at the Central Queensland University. My research takes a population-based approach to health behaviour change and is focused on the development and evaluation of innovative and web, app, tracker, chatbot, computer-tailored and machine learning based physical activity interventions. I’ve published 257 peer-reviews papers (h = 63), I’m a 2022 highly cited researcher (Clarivate). I’ve secured $16M of competitive research funds, including several fellowships and project grants as a lead investigator from the most competitive funding agencies in Australia (NHMRC, ARC, NHF). I’m the Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Activity, Sedentary and Sleep Behaviours.
Main areas that I could provide mentoring in: Conducting research (e.g., recruitment, data collection, intervention delivery, analysis, writing etc.), Funding/grant writing (e.g., availability and/or accessibility of funding opportunities, success rates etc), Leadership.
Esther van Sluijs
Country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Area/s of research: Physical Activity, Sedentary Behavior
Bio: Dr Esther van Sluijs is an MRC Programme Leader at the MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge. Her research uses observational evidence to further enhance the understanding of where, when, and how physical activity in young people may be promoted, and evaluates the impact of the resulting interventions. She is currently involved in evaluations of school- and family-based physical activity promotion interventions and the International Children’s Accelerometry Database (ICAD). Esther holds a PhD in Public Health and Epidemiology from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and has been an expert advisor on children’s physical activity promotion for the UK government, IOC and NICE.
Main areas that I could provide mentoring in: Conducting research (e.g., recruitment, data collection, intervention delivery, analysis, writing etc.), CV building/preparing job applications/resumes, Leadership.
Jayne Fulkerson
Country: United States of America
Area/s of research: Nutrition, Obesity prevention, Home food environments
Bio: Dr. Jayne Fulkerson is a psychologist, professor and endowed chair in the School of Nursing at the University of Minnesota. She uses her education, training and experience in psychology, behavioral science, team science and that of an executive coach to educate and train others to be rigorous scientists and leaders in their fields. Her mentees have had successful transitions into research careers. She leads several pre/postdoctoral training grants. Her research focuses on family-based health promotion in community settings where she develops and tests intervention programs to prevent childhood obesity. She also has expertise in measure development and validation.
Main areas that I could provide mentoring in: CV building/preparing job applications/resumes, Time management (e.g. time pressure to complete degree/projects on time or within funding window), Work/life balance.
Ralph Maddison
Country: Australia
Area/s of research: Physical Activity, Sedentary Behavior, Digital health
Bio: Professor Ralph Maddison is a behavioural scientist and leads the Digital Health for Prevention and Management of Disease, at the Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition (IPAN), Deakin University. His research is focussed on developing and evaluating digital health interventions for enhancing lifestyle in people with long-term conditions (e.g., CVD, diabetes). He has expertise in developing and implementing interventions aimed at modifying lifestyle risk-factors. Specialist research interests include physical activity, healthy lifestyles, cardiovascular disease, obesity, health technology and clinical trials.
Main areas that I could provide mentoring in: Conducting research (e.g., recruitment, data collection, intervention delivery, analysis, writing etc.), Funding/grant writing (e.g., availability and/or accessibility of funding opportunities, success rates etc), Networking and collaborations (e.g., building, maintaining).
(At Capacity) Carol Maher
Country: Australia
Area/s of research: Physical Activity, Sedentary Behaviour, and Sleep.
Bio: Research Professor Carol Maher, Acting Director of the Alliance for Research in Exercise, Nutrition and Activity (ARENA) at UniSA, has contributed significantly to the field with over 200 publications and >$20 million in research funding. Her research investigates the effects of daily activity patterns, including physical activity, sleep, and sedentary behaviors, on health outcomes in children and adults. Utilizing advanced technologies such as wearables, online social networking, smartphone apps, gamification, and artificial intelligence, she develops system-level approaches to enhance lifestyle choices and promote population-level health improvements.
Main areas that I could provide mentoring in: Communicating research findings outside of academia (e.g. public, practitioners, policy makers), Conducting research (e.g., recruitment, data collection, intervention delivery, analysis, writing etc.), Consumer researchers / end users, CV building/preparing job applications/resumes, Employment (e.g., casual alongside studying, post PhD etc.), Funding/grant writing (e.g., availability and/or accessibility of funding opportunities, success rates etc), Leadership, Networking and collaborations (e.g., building, maintaining), Scientific writing, Time management (e.g. time pressure to complete degree/projects on time or within funding window), Work/life balance, and Supervising students.
ORCID or other scientific identifier: 0000-0002-8676-0224
Neville Owen
Country: Australia
Area/s of research: Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior.
Bio: Neville is Distinguished Professor at Swinburne University of Technology in the Centre for Urban Transitions and a Senior Scientist in the Physical Activity Laboratory at the Baker Heart & Diabetes Institute in Melbourne, Australia. His research deals with identifying prevention opportunities for type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancer through understanding and influencing physical activity and sedentary behaviour. This includes epidemiological and experimental examinations of the health consequences of too much sitting, behaviour change intervention trials, and integrated uses of large-scale transportation, social and spatial data sets.
Main areas that I could provide mentoring in: Networking and collaborations (e.g., building, maintaining), Scientific writing, and Supervising students.
ORCID or other scientific identifier: 0000-0003-2784-4820, https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=hQpbZwwAAAAJ&hl=en.
Eva Roos
Country: Finland
Area/s of research: Nutrition, Physical Activity, Sedentary Behavior, Sleep, and Health Inequities.
Bio: My name is Eva Roos. I am a senior researcher at Folkhälsan research center at Samfundet Folkhälsan, a NGO in Finland. My work task is to increase the collaboration between research and practical health promotion, health and social care in the organisation. I am also affiliated to Uppsala university, where I have held a professorship (2021-2022) in especially meal studies. My research has focus on public health, health promotion and health inequalities. I want to increase our understanding of how factors in society, social and physical environments, influence our health behaviours and explain socioeconomic differences in health behaviours.
Main areas that I could provide mentoring in: Work/life balance, Funding/grant writing (e.g., availability and/or accessibility of funding opportunities, success rates etc), and Leadership.
ORCID or other scientific identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3521-6517
Richard Rosenkranz
Country: United States of America
Area/s of research: Nutrition and Physical Activity
Bio: My background includes behavioral science, public health nutrition, and physical activity. I have focused my research on the identification of modifiable influences of healthful eating and physical activity leading to theory-based health promotion and chronic disease prevention. I am a former member of the ISBNPA Exec Committee and current editor-in-chief of IJBNPA. I came into academia late and worked through the ranks in Australia and USA.
Main areas that I could provide mentoring in: Balancing teaching and research, Conducting research (e.g., recruitment, data collection, intervention delivery, analysis, writing etc.), CV building/preparing job applications/resumes, Leadership, Networking and collaborations (e.g., building, maintaining), Work/life balance, and Supervising students.
ORCID or other scientific identifier: 0000-0002-8242-3546, https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Richard-Rosenkranz.
Erin van Blarigan
Country: United States
Area/s of research: Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Cancer Survivorship.
Bio: I am a Nutritional Epidemiologist whose research is focused on the role of nutrition and physical activity in cancer survivorship. I am the PI of a factorial experiment to optimize a remotely delivered behavioral intervention for colorectal cancer survivors; a pilot project to use reinforcement learning to adapt text messages to increase whole grain intake and reduce refined grain intake among colorectal cancer survivors; and am leading a project to prospectively examine post-diagnostic health behaviors in relation to colorectal cancer survival in the Multiethnic Cohort Study. I am also the Director of a Grant Writing Course in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at UCSF.
Main areas that I could provide mentoring in: Conducting research (e.g., recruitment, data collection, intervention delivery, analysis, writing etc.), Funding/grant writing (e.g., availability and/or accessibility of funding opportunities, success rates etc), and Scientific writing.
ORCID or other scientific identifier: 0000-0001-5079-3385
Ruth Lowry
Country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Area/s of research: Physical Activity
Bio: I am a Practitioner Psychologist registered with the Health and Care Professions Council, Chartered Sport and Exercise Psychologist with the British Psychological Society and Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. My research interests address how physical activity (including exercise and sport) can be used and measured to promote the health and wellbeing of a number of specialist populations (elderly, sedentary employees, military personnel, children with emotional and behavioural difficulties). I am currently leading the evaluation of two European funded projects that deal with health inequalities in four countries (Belgium, France, the Netherlands and the UK), Step by Step (SBS, a community Men’s Shed project) and Sexual Health in the over Forty Fives (SHIFT, a new model of service delivery and training). I am also involved in research collaborations one seeking to understand how rock drumming, as a activity intervention, can benefit specialist groups and the other exploring the benefits of physical activity for people living with dementia.
Main areas that I could provide mentoring in: Communicating research findings outside of academia (e.g. public, practitioners, policy makers), Conducting research (e.g., recruitment, data collection, intervention delivery, analysis, writing etc.), Supervising students.
Trina Hinkley
Country: Australia
Area/s of research: Physical Activity, Sedentary Behavior, Knowledge translation
Main areas that I could provide mentoring in: Communicating research findings outside of academia (e.g. public, practitioners, policy makers), Leadership, Work/life balance.
Trynke Hoekstra
Country: Netherlands
Area/s of research: Physical Activity, Epidemiology
Bio: Trynke Hoekstra is an assistant professor at the Department of Health Sciences of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She teaches epidemiology and biostatistics courses on BSc-, MSc and postgraduate level. Her research concerns active lifestyle promotion in clinical rehabilitation among people with physical disabilities or chronic diseases. Additionally, her more methodologically oriented research projects focus on the unraveling of (patient) heterogeneity. Trynke likes to work in multidisciplinary teams and aims to educate her students in becoming critical and constructive young professionals.
Main areas that I could provide mentoring in: Balancing teaching and research, Scientific writing, Supervising students
Wendy van Lippevelde
Country: Belgium
Area/s of research: Nutrition
Bio: Prof. Dr. Wendy Van Lippevelde is Assistant Professor in Transformative Consumer Research at the Department of Marketing, Innovation and Organisation (Faculty of Economics and Business Administration) at Ghent University. She obtained her PhD in 2012 at Ghent University on the role of parents in childhood overweight prevention. Her research focuses mainly on the promotion of a healthy and sustainable diet in (vulnerable) children, adolescents, and their families. She has also been a Member-at-large in the ISBNPA Executive Committee (from 2015-2021) and founder of the Network of Early careers and Students of ISBNPA (NESI).
Main areas that I could provide mentoring in: Leadership, Networking and collaborations (e.g., building, maintaining), Work/life balance.
Jenny Veitch
Country: Australia
Area/s of research: Physical Activity and Sendentary Behavior.
Bio: Jenny Veitch is an Associate Professor in the Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition (IPAN), at Deakin University, Australia. Her research aims to better understand the impact of the built and natural environment on physical activity and health-related behaviours. A/Prof Veitch has a particular research focus on understanding how the design of parks and public open spaces can optimise physical activity and social interaction among children, adolescents, adults, and older adults. She has raised 3 children whilst pursuing her research career and is keen to share her experiences to help support EMCRs.
Main areas that I could provide mentoring in: Work/life balance, Networking and collaborations (e.g., building, maintaining), and Communicating research findings outside of academia (e.g. public, practitioners, policy makers).
ORCID or other scientific identifier: 0000-0001-8962-0887, Scopus id: 7006534920
Lisa Barnett
Country: Australia
Area/s of research: Physical Activity, Motor Skills, and Physical Literacy.
Bio: Lisa is a Professor in Physical Activity and Health the Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition at Deakin University and Past President of the International Motor Development Research Consortium. Her internationally leading work focuses on developing ways to measure physical literacy and how to improve physical literacy via partnerships with industry and researchers from multiple countries. Lisa developed the pictorial scale for Perceived Movement Skill Competence; used in 35 countries. She was a key player in the development of the Australian Physical Literacy definition and framework. She co-leads the physical literacy special interest group for the Australasian Society of Physical Activity.
Main areas that I could provide mentoring in: Conducting research (e.g., recruitment, data collection, intervention delivery, analysis, writing etc.), Scientific writing, Leadership.
ORCID or other scientific identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9731-625X, https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=QSeGG0oAAAAJ&hl=en.
(At Capacity) Amy Yaroch
Country: United States
Area/s of research: Nutrition
Bio: Amy Yaroch, PhD – is the Executive Director of the Gretchen Swanson Center for Nutrition (GSCN). She has over 25 years of experience in leading implementation and evaluation of public health nutrition programs; she has close to 200 publications. Prior to joining GSCN, Dr. Yaroch was a Program Director and Behavioral Scientist at the National Cancer Institute where she worked across the areas of nutrition, dietary assessment, survey development, obesity prevention, and skin cancer prevention. Since joining GSCN in 2009, Dr. Yaroch has been leading efforts in healthy eating/active living, food insecurity, food systems, and program and process evaluation.
Main areas that I could provide mentoring in: Leadership, Networking and collaborations (e.g., building, maintaining), and Remote working arrangements (e.g., access to universities/institutes, isolation etc.).
Matthew Buman
Country: USA
Area/s of research: Physical Activity, Sedentary Behavior, and Sleep.
Bio: Matthew Buman, PhD is a Professor in the College of Health Solutions at Arizona State University in the USA. His research interests reflect the dynamic interplay of behaviors across the 24 hours – sleep, sedentary behavior, and physical activity – and collectively how these behaviors can be harnessed for health promotion. His work focuses on developing precision health interventions that (a) leverage ‘in-the-moment’ device-based measurement of these behaviors, (b) singly or in combination target these behaviors in adaptive designs that are “tuned” to the individual, and (c) harness the environments in which we live, work, and play to create interventions that are better suited to individuals and populations. His work largely leverages personal, digital technologies (e.g., smartphones, wearables) to design and evaluate interventions in both clinical and community settings.
Main areas that I could provide mentoring in: Balancing teaching and research, Conducting research (e.g., recruitment, data collection, intervention delivery, analysis, writing etc.), Funding/grant writing (e.g., availability and/or accessibility of funding opportunities, success rates etc).
ORCID or other scientific identifier: 0000-0002-5130-3162
Melissa Fernandez
Country: Canada
Area/s of research: Nutrition
Bio: I am a newly appointed assistant professor with the School of Nutrition Science at the University of Ottawa. I am a Registered Dietitian specialized in public health nutrition and my research focus is understanding the Internet’s influence on nutrition communication and on consumers’ eating behaviors and practices.
Main areas that I could provide mentoring in: CV building/preparing job applications/resumes, Funding/grant writing (e.g., availability and/or accessibility of funding opportunities, success rates etc), Leadership.
Jesús del Pozo Cruz
Area/s of research: Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior
Main areas that I could provide mentoring in: Balancing teaching and research, Conducting research (e.g., recruitment, data collection, intervention delivery, analysis, writing etc.), and Leadership.
