McManus, Ali

Ali McManus

Ali McManus  PhD

Associate Professor

School of Health and Exercise Sciences
Faculty of Health and Social Development, UBC Okanagan

Contact Info

UBC Okanagan
1147 Research Road  ART 127
Kelowna  BC  V1V 1V7

Tel:  250-807-8192
email:  ali.mcmanus@ubc.ca

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  • Associate Professor, School of Health and Exercise Sciences,
    Faculty of Health and Social Development, UBC Okanagan
  • Interplay between physical activity, aerobic fitness and cardiometabolic health in children and how age, maturation, sex and body composition influence these relationships
  • Factors that regulate how quickly aerobic metabolic pathways can respond to the energetic challenges of physical activity in a child when there are rapid transitions between rest and movement of varying intensity
  • Epidemiological research to understand the associations between habitual activity patterns in children and cardiometabolic health

Indigenous Digital Wellness:  Indigenous Masculinity, Identity and Wellbeing in Male Youth
PIs: Braden Te HiwiAli McManus
Co-I: Liam King
Dates: 2019 – 2020
Funded by: CIHR

Mobile Health Biometrics to Enhance Exercise and Physical Activity Adherence in T2D
Co-Leads: NPI: UK: Dr M Cocks; NPI: Canada: Dr. A. McManus
Co- Is: UK: H. Jones, T. Sprung, R. Andrews, C. Mateus; Canada: J. LittleJung, MJones. C, Chang, C
Funded by: MRC + CIHR $657,720.00 (total) $245,939.00 (Canadian portion)

Click here to see Dr. McManus’ publications indexed in Google Scholar https://scholar.google.ca/citations?hl=en&user=aBSrSsMAAAAJ

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