Applied Public Health Chair – Kate Storey
Dr. Kate Storey, PhD, RD is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Health at the University of Alberta, Distinguished Researcher - Stollery Children’s Hospital Foundation, and Centre for Healthy Communities Scientist and Lead for ‘Healthy Schools.’ Dr. Storey’s research program SIRCLE (Settings-based Intervention Research through Changes in Lifestyles & Environments) focuses on school- and community-based strategies to promote wellbeing, prevent chronic diseases, and reduce health inequities. An established leader in creating healthy communities, her team has implemented, evaluated, and scaled healthy living programs in communities with thousands of children and has established partnerships across sectors and levels to facilitate sustainability. Dr. Storey’s work with the Indigenous Youth Mentorship Program (IYMP) has shown that centring community-based interventions on Indigenous philosophies and culturally affirming educational approaches (Circle of Courage, Four R’s) is effective in improving health behaviours, can be ‘rippled’ (scaled), and has established essential conditions of implementation. Notably, her work on the Essential Conditions has been adopted into Canadian policy and practice as the Canadian Healthy School Standards. Dr. Storey's chair will examine how IYMP serves as a pathway to wholistic health and health equity through educational attainment and employability.
The decision-making collaborator on Dr. Storey's Chair is Mr. Brian Torrance, Executive Director of Ever Active Schools.
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