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Research Description

Health promotion / Disease Prevention / population health / obesity / community mobilization, capacity-building, dissemination and knowledge transfer, transtheoretical model, weight managemen, tphysical activity and exercise, exercise adherence, primary care promotion of physical activity, smoking cessation, modification of eating behaviours, sport psychology.

Interdisciplinary Research

As the socio-ecological framework guides my research I am involved in interdisciplinary, multi-level and multi-sectoral research.

Health Related Research

100% of my work is health related research. The emphasis is on health promotion and prevention, public health approaches to the determinants /antecedents for obesity and chronic disease.

Research Keywords

Community Interaction

Community Projects

Action Schools! BC -8 schools on Vancouver Island are in a CIHR / Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada funded trial of the effectiveness of the dissemination of Action Schools! BC (AS! BC).

Municipal Recreation Food Environment Audit Tool - with internal SSHRC funding and through partnerships with the BC Ministry of Health, Canadian Cancer Society BC and Yukon Division, Vancouver Island Health Authority, British Columbia Recreationa and Parks Association and the University of British Columbia I have piloted an audit tool for municipal recreation facilities prior to implementing a province wide audit of food policies, services and programs.

School Fruit and Vegetable Snack Pilot - Two schools on Vancouver Island are piloting this initiative (10 schools in the province are piloting it) and I am contracted through BC Agriculture in the Classroom to conduct the evaluation.

Healthy Opportunities for Preschoolers (HOP) - in partnership with Vancouver Island Health Authority (VIHA)and through funding from VIHA, Ministry of Children and Family Development and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research researchers at the University of Victoria (Drs Temple, Wharf-Higgins, Rhodes, Wolski) of which I am one have developed and piloted a resource and training workshop for family childcare providers. The pilot has largely been implemented on Vancouver Island although the Train-the-Trainer provided training to 40 childcare professionals from around the province ( a minimum of 3 per region).

Community Collaborations

Action Schools! BC Healthy Eating pilot and School Fruit and Vegetable Snack Pilot evaluation are funded by non-profit organizations - 2010 Legacies Now and BC Agriculture in the Classroom Foundation. Action Schools! BC dissemination trial is funded through a partnership between the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada which is a non-profit organization.

UVic Speakers Bureau

Naylor takes part in the UVic Speakers Bureau.
More information about the Speakers Bureau can be found here.

International Involvement

Countries lived/worked in

Bristol, England