Donna Dixson, University of British Columbia

Research

Action Childhood Community Engagement Exchange Knowledge Obesity Participatory

Latest funding

Tele-SCOPE - Translation, Evaluation and Learnings Exchanged for Sustainable Childhood Obesity Prevention Through Community Engagement
CIHR · 2012 · Principal investigator
$198,790

Tele-SCOPE - Translation, Evaluation and Learnings Exchanged for Sustainable Childhood Obesity Prevention Through Community Engagement

Principal investigatorCIHR2012Operating Grant: Knowledge to Action

Principal investigators: Amed, Shazhan; Dixson, Donna E; Vugteveen, Christina

Keywords: Action; Childhood; Community; Engagement; Exchange; Knowledge; Obesity; Participatory; Prevention; Sustainable

$198,790

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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