Lower Mall Research Station Room 210
2259 Lower Mall
shannon.bredin@ubc.ca
604 822 8257
Shannon Bredin, CECER Director
Dr. Shannon Bredin is an Associate Professor, the co-Director of the Physical Activity Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention Unit, and the founder/director of the Cognitive and Functional Learning (LEARN) Laboratory and the Laboratory for Knowledge Mobilization (KNOW). Dr. Bredin is considered a leader in community-based initiatives in the field of physical activity and health. Her research program examines factors that promote the health benefits of physical activity, as well as physical activity in relation to motor development, learning, and human performance. Her research covers a wide spectrum, including (but not limited to) infants and children, pregnancy and the early years of parenthood, elite performers, as well as persons with chronic medical conditions. Dr. Bredin is also a trained specialist in systematic reviews of the literature and has completed more than 30 systematic reviews of the literature for various research groups and organizations. She is also the founding and current Editor of the Health and Fitness Journal of Canada.
She currently resides and works on the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) First Nation.