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Heather Mckay

ResearcherDepartment of Family PracticeUniversity of British Columbia

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Heather Mckay

Researcher

Department of Family Practice

University of British Columbia

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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Has led research grants, which requires an independent research appointment. Ask their department whether they supervise graduate students.
9 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 3 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 23 research grants (23 CIHR), most recently in 2025.
Supervisor on 5 trainee awards (5 CIHR), most recently in 2019.

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Research

Physical Activity Mobility Older Adults Implementation Science Knowledge Translation Scale-Up Social Connectedness Program Adaptation

Latest papers

No short cuts: building trust in community-based research with ethnocultural groups.
International journal for equity in health · 2026 · senior author
Measuring Organizational Readiness in a Community Health Promotion Program: Instrument Tailoring and Psychometric Testing.
Health promotion practice · 2025
Are they the same? Disentangling the concepts of implementation science research and population scale-up.
Public health research & practice · 2024

All 49 publications

Latest funding

Alleviating waitlist woes: Implementing and evaluating a health-promoting program for people awaiting hip and knee replacement surgery for osteoarthritis
CIHR · 2025 · Nominated PI
$886,790
Alleviating waitlist woes: Adapting a health-promoting program for people awaiting hip and knee replacement for osteoarthritis
CIHR · 2024 · Co-investigator
$20,000
Healthy Cities-Implementation Science Team in Healthy Aging
CIHR · 2022 · Nominated PI
$3,000,000

All 42 grants and awards

49 publications.

No short cuts: building trust in community-based research with ethnocultural groups.

Chowdhury D, Sims-Gould J, McKay H

International journal for equity in health2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1186/s12939-025-02713-x PMID: 41593618

Measuring Organizational Readiness in a Community Health Promotion Program: Instrument Tailoring and Psychometric Testing.

Franke T, Nettlefold L, Nandra K, Sims Gould J, McKay H, Havaei F

Health promotion practice2025

DOI: 10.1177/15248399251387143 PMID: 41216947

Are they the same? Disentangling the concepts of implementation science research and population scale-up.

Lee K, McKay H, Crane M, Milat A, Wolfenden L, Rankin NM, Sutherland RM, Bauman A

Public health research & practice2024

DOI: 10.17061/phrp34232409 PMID: 39048510

Adapting an Effective Health-Promoting Intervention-Choose to Move-for Chinese Older Adults in Canada.

Wong V, Franke T, McKay H, Tong C, Macdonald H, Sims-Gould J

Journal of aging and physical activity2024

DOI: 10.1123/japa.2023-0064 PMID: 37917970

Older Mens' Experiences with and Preferences for Physical Activity.

Windt S, Sims-Gould J, Mackey DC, McKay H

Canadian journal on aging = La revue canadienne du vieillissement2023Senior author

DOI: 10.1017/s0714980823000211 PMID: 37365164

Supporting adolescents' participation in muscle-strengthening physical activity: protocol for the 'Resistance Training for Teens' (RT4T) hybrid type III implementation-effectiveness trial.

Kelly HT, Smith JJ, Verdonschot A, Kennedy SG, Scott JJ, McKay H, Nathan N, Sutherland R, Morgan PJ, Salmon J, Penney D, Boyer J, Lloyd RS, Oldmeadow C, Reeves P, Pursey K, Hua M, Longmore S, Norman J, Voukelatos A, Zask A, Lubans DR

BMJ open2023

DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2023-075488 PMID: 37914300

From trials to communities: implementation and scale-up of health behaviour interventions.

McCrabb S, Hall A, McKay H, Gonzalez S, Milat A, Bauman A, Sutherland R, Wolfenden L

Health research policy and systems2023

DOI: 10.1186/s12961-023-01027-0 PMID: 37525165

Drawing on Cultural Traditions to Improve Cardiorespiratory Fitness with South Asian Children: A Feasibility Study.

Tang TS, Mahmood B, Amed S, McKay H

Childhood obesity (Print)2022Senior author

DOI: 10.1089/chi.2021.0187 PMID: 34967668

Understanding the sustainment of population health programmes from a whole-of-system approach.

Crane M, Nathan N, McKay H, Lee K, Wiggers J, Bauman A

Health research policy and systems2022

DOI: 10.1186/s12961-022-00843-0 PMID: 35392913

More than a meeting: identifying the needs of the community-based seniors' services sector as providers of health promotion services.

Tong CE, Sims-Gould J, Lusina-Furst S, McKay H

BMC research notes2021Senior author

DOI: 10.1186/s13104-021-05753-y PMID: 34461980

Alleviating waitlist woes: Implementing and evaluating a health-promoting program for people awaiting hip and knee replacement surgery for osteoarthritis

Nominated PICIHR2025Project Grant

Principal investigators: Mckay, Heather A

Keywords: Exercise; Implementation Science; Mobility; Osteoarthritis; Physical Activity; Sex And Gender Science; Social Connectedness; Surgical Wait Lists; Total Joint Arthroplasty

$886,790

Alleviating waitlist woes: Adapting a health-promoting program for people awaiting hip and knee replacement for osteoarthritis

Co-investigatorCIHR2024Planning and Dissemination Grant - Institute Community Support

Principal investigators: Sims-Gould, Joanie; Churchill, Laura K

Keywords: Implementation Science; Mobility; Osteoarthritis; Physical Activity; Program Adaptation; Sex And Gender Science; Social Connectedness; Surgical Waitlists; Total Joint Arthroplasty

$20,000

Healthy Cities-Implementation Science Team in Healthy Aging

Nominated PICIHR2022Team Grant: HCIS - Healthy aging

Principal investigators: Mckay, Heather A; Kupferschmidt, Anthony; Lusina, Sarah Jane C; Prakash, Adrian A; Tosdevine-Tataryn, Sahra-Lea; Tunnacliffe, Rebecca; Havaei, Farinaz; Mackey, Dawn C; Sims-Gould, Joanie

Keywords: Aging; Health Equity; Implementation Science; Knowledge Translation; Mobility; Physical Activity; Program Adaptation; Sex And Gender; Social Connectedness

$3,000,000

The Forgotten North: Adapting an effective health-promoting program for northern British Columbia

Nominated PICIHR2022Planning and Dissemination Grant - Institute Community Support

Principal investigators: Mckay, Heather A; Pelletier, Chelsea

Keywords: Aging; Implementation Science; Mobility; Older Adults; Physical Activity; Program Adaptation; Provincial North; Sex And Gender Science; Social Connectedness

$20,000

Small Steps for Big Changes: Implementing an Evidence-Based Diabetes Prevention Program into Diverse Urban Communities

Principal investigatorCIHR2021Team Grant: HCIS - LOI - Type 2 diabetes prevention

Principal investigators: Jung, Mary E; Alexander, Amanda; Allen, David P; Casmey, Samantha; Compton, Steve; Cullen, Lon; Hartley-Folz, Samantha; Hughes, Crystal L; Paterson, Kent; Squires, Sherry; Bean, Corliss; Li, Linda C; Mckay, Heather A; Witteman, Holly M

Keywords: Behaviour Change; Community-Engaged Research; Diabetes Prevention; Evaluation; Implementation; Knowledge Translation; Patient Engagement; Prediabetes; Scale-Up; Virtual Technology

$24,784

INTerventions, Equity, Research and Action in Cities Team (INTERACT)

Co-investigatorCIHR2021Project Grant

Principal investigators: Fuller, Daniel L; Bracewell, Dale; Cloutier, Irène; Kestens, Yan; McDonald, James; Webb, Sarah; Winters, Meghan

Keywords: Equity; Healthy Cities; Natural Experiments; Physical Activity; Social Connectedness; Urban Planning; Well-Being

$918,000

Implementation Science Team in Healthy Aging

Nominated PICIHR2021Team Grant: HCIS - LOI - Healthy aging

Principal investigators: Mckay, Heather A; Tosdevine-Tataryn, Sahra-Lea; Havaei, Farinaz; Mackey, Dawn C; Sims-Gould, Joanie

Keywords: Healthy Aging; Implementation Science; Knowledge Translation; Loneliness; Older Adults; Physical Activity; Program Adaptation; Scale-Up; Social Isolation

$24,850

A group-based social connectedness intervention to support sustained physical activity adherence among older adults.

Co-investigatorCIHR2019Project Grant

Principal investigators: Beauchamp, Mark R

Keywords: Adherence Behaviour; Biological Health; Cognition; Health Psychology; Intervention; Physical Activity; Psychological Well-Being; Randomized Controlled Trial; Social Coonectedness

$100,000

Implementation and scale-up science: Tackling challenges in prevention and health promotion research

Nominated PICIHR2019Planning and Dissemination Grant - Institute Community Support

Principal investigators: Mckay, Heather A; Sims-Gould, Joanie

Keywords: Dissemination; Exercise; Implementation Science; Mobility; Older Adults; Physical Activity; Scale-Up

$20,000

Scale-up: Adapting an effective older adult physical activity intervention to achieve impact at the population level

SupervisorCIHR2019Travel Awards - Institute Community Support

Principal investigators: Gray, Samantha M

Keywords: Ics Travel Award

$1,000

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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Heather Mckay

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No short cuts: building trust in community-based research with ethnocultural groups.

Measuring Organizational Readiness in a Community Health Promotion Program: Instrument Tailoring and Psychometric Testing.

Are they the same? Disentangling the concepts of implementation science research and population scale-up.

Adapting an Effective Health-Promoting Intervention-Choose to Move-for Chinese Older Adults in Canada.

Older Mens' Experiences with and Preferences for Physical Activity.

Supporting adolescents' participation in muscle-strengthening physical activity: protocol for the 'Resistance Training for Teens' (RT4T) hybrid type III implementation-effectiveness trial.

From trials to communities: implementation and scale-up of health behaviour interventions.

Drawing on Cultural Traditions to Improve Cardiorespiratory Fitness with South Asian Children: A Feasibility Study.

Understanding the sustainment of population health programmes from a whole-of-system approach.

More than a meeting: identifying the needs of the community-based seniors' services sector as providers of health promotion services.

Frequent collaborators

Joanie Sims-Gould

Meghan Winters

Patti-Jean Naylor

Christine Voss

Rizhi Wang

Pierre Guy

Kishore Mulpuri

Patricia Janssen

Fabio Feldman

Rhona Hanning

Lise Gauvin

Scott Bell

Catherine Morency

Farinaz Havaei

Bushra Mahmood

Habib Chaudhury

Alison Phinney

Kevin Stanley

Karen Laberee

Jeremy Grimshaw

Peter Cripton

Yan Kestens

Geetanjali Datta

Sabrina Wong

Nazeem Muhajarine

Linda Li

Teresa Liu-Ambrose

Hector Antonio Paez

Shazhan Amed