Speaker: Dr. Diane Crone, Professor in Exercise and Health and Director of the Centre for Health, Activity and Wellbeing Research at the Cardiff Metropolitan University.
Host: Dr. Guy Faulkner, Professor, UBC School of Kinesiology.
Title: “We are a society … choked by inactivity” WHO, 2018: Contemporary systems-based approaches to physical activity promotion.
Diane Crone is a Professor in Exercise and Health and Director of the (soon to be launched) Centre for Health, Activity and Wellbeing Research at the Cardiff Metropolitan University. Her expertise lies in the area of the design, delivery and evaluation of health promoting interventions in primary and secondary health care, and in the community. She has published internationally in the areas of exercise referral scheme evaluation, mental health promotion, arts for health and in physical activity pathway intervention evaluations. She has presented both nationally and internationally on these subjects, in both English and Spanish. Much of her work is undertaken with health professionals in the NHS and with regional and local government officers, in both the UK and EU. She is a member of the British Association for Sport and Exercise Sciences and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Public Health.