Dr. Shannon Bredin

Dr. Shannon Bredin is an Associate Professor, the co-Director of the Physical Activity Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention Unit, and the founder/director of the Cognitive and Functional Learning Laboratory and the Knowledge Mobilization Laboratory at the University of British Columbia. Dr. Bredin is a leader in community-based initiatives in the field of physical activity and health, particularly within Indigenous communities. She spearheaded the creation of the innovative telehealth program, the Physical Activity Line (now Physical Activity Services, BC Ministry of Health), Canada’s free resource for evidence-based physical activity information. She was also principal investigator on the Getting Games Fit program for the 2010 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games and a major contributor to the creation of the new evidence-based Physical Activity Readiness Questionnaire for Everyone (PAR-Q+) and the new electronic Physical Activity Readiness Medical Examination (ePARmed-X+). Dr. Bredin’s research program examines factors that promote the health benefits of physical activity, as well as physical activity in relation to motor development, learning, and human performance. Her research covers a wide spectrum, including (but not limited to) infants and children, Indigenous health and wellbeing, pregnancy and the early years of parenthood, elite performers, as well as persons living with chronic disease. Dr. Bredin is  specialist in systematic reviews and knowledge mobilization. She is also the founding Editor of the Health and Fitness Journal of Canada.