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SUMMARY:Sitting time and chronic disease prevention: strengthening the evi
 dence base - Dr Genevieve Healy\, School of Public Health at The Universit
 y of Queensland\, Australia
DTSTART:20150605T113000Z
DTEND:20150605T123000Z
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CONTACT:Signe Wulund
DESCRIPTION:Addressing too much sitting is now recognised as a preventive 
 health target. In 2014\, Dr Healy was part of a multi-institutional team t
 hat was awarded an Australian National Health and Medical Research Council
  Centre of Research Excellence (CRE) grant on Sitting Time and Chronic Dis
 ease Prevention. This grant brings together the leading research teams and
  personnel in Australia to strengthen the sedentary behaviour and health e
 vidence base across three primary themes: measurement\, mechanisms and int
 erventions. The research embedded with the CRE is conducted across key lif
 e stages (children\, youth\, adults\, older adults) and population-health 
 settings (e.g. schools\, home\, workplaces\, aged care). This talk will pr
 ovide an overview of the program of research being undertaken within the c
 ontext of the CRE\, with an emphasis on the measurement and workplace inte
 rvention elements. 
LOCATION:Meeting rooms\, Level 3 Institute of Metabolic Sciences\, Addenbr
 ooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC). 
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