Grant: SPOR Mentorship Chair in Innovative Clinical Trials

Obesity, diabetes, and hypertension are key risk factors for a number of major chronic diseases, and they are heavily influenced by a specific cluster of poor health behaviours (e.g., smoking, poor diet, physical inactivity, stress). Positively changing these behaviours has been shown to prevent and/or improve these 3 conditions. However, the exact behavioural interventions that work the best on specific people is still to be determined. Part of the problem is that the kinds of studies that we use are not always the best to answer these kinds of questions The objective of this Chair will be to train more people to be able to use potentially better study designs to understand how we can best change peoples behaviours to improve their health. A total of about 150 trainees and New Investigators will receive some training from this application. This will be done with a group of international experts, local, national, and international organisations and, most importantly, patients, healthcare professionals, and policy makers.