HWI CIHR Health System Impact Fellow
In this fellowship, Brianna engages with the provincial healthcare system and local government on multiple levels by joining her health system supervisor, Dr. Jonathon Fowles, in various policy meetings, and interactions with community partners and government officials and additionally, she delivers a physical activity counselling service to the community. She is also a recipient of the CIHR Canadian Graduate Student Doctoral Award (2027-2030) that will support her implementation science evaluation of Clinical Exercise Physiologists (CEPs) support of collaborative medical practice (i.e. the ‘health home’) for this project. Brianna will be complemented by a Masters of Applied Kinesiology student (supervised by Dr. Kendall) who will evaluate the AFL programs (i.e. ‘health neighborhood’), with funding through this grant
Brianna Leadbetter
CIHR Health System Impact PhD Fellow (2026-27) with the HWI at Acadia University in partnership with Nova Scotia Health
brianna.leadbetter@acadiau.ca