The Lab

Community-Engaged Health Promotion Research


 

Members of the Community-Engaged Health Promotion Research Lab – Fall 2023:
 

L-R:  Kelechi Kemnele, Ashley Johnson, Alyssa Comfort, Ana Sanchez, Lucie Lévesque, Donna Ivimey, Folasade Aladesuyi, El Zahraa Majed, Colin Baillie, Brittany McBeath

Graduate Student bios are below: 


 

Lucie Lévesque, PhD, Principal Investigator

Professor, School of Kinesiology & Health Studies

PhD (Université Laval)

MSc (Université Laval)

BA (McGill University)

levesqul@queensu.ca

Alex M. McComber,  Co-Principal Investigator & Knowledge User

Adjunct Professor, School of Kinesiology & Health Studies

Community Advisor & Researcher, Kahnawake Schools Diabetes Prevention Program

Assistant Professor, Dept. of Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University

M.Ed (McGill University)

DSc. Hc (Queen’s University)

otsehtokon@yahoo.com

Donna Ivimey

Research Coordinator

ivimeyd@queensu.ca

Room 209, SKHS Building

Colin Baillie  colin.baillie@queensu.ca

PhD Candidate

Establishing Criteria for the Evaluation of Land-Based Indigenous Physical Activity Environment Assessment Tools

Colin is a member of both the Kahnawá:ke Schools Diabetes Prevention Program (KSDPP) and Indigenous Youth Mentorship Program (IYMP) research teams. As part of his work with these nationally recognised programs, Colin’s research focuses on identifying quality criteria to assess the rigour of community-engaged research projects that incorporate Indigenous knowledge systems and methodologies.

Ashley Johnson

Ashley Johnson  a.johnson@queensu.ca

PhD Candidate

Social network analysis of community partnerships for health promotion.

Ashley’s research aims to  understand how a community health promotion partnership can be successful and sustainable in the Canadian context.

Brittany McBeath  b.mcbeath@queensu.ca

PhD Candidate

Reducing Type 2 Diabetes Through a Youth-Led Vision of Community Wellness

Brittany McBeath is a Kanyen’kehá:ka (Mohawk) woman of mixed ancestry with roots in Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory. She is currently a Ph.D. Candidate in her 4th year studying Indigenous Health Promotion using a Community-Engaged Research approach. She is currently involved in research partnerships with the Kahnawà:ke Schools Diabetes Prevention Program, the Weeneebayko Area Health Authority, and the Kingston In Focus Dashboard Project. To contact her about her work please reach out to b.mcbeath@queensu.ca.   

El Zahraa Majed  18ezm@queensu.ca

PhD Candidate

Exploring physical activity and mental health among recent immigrants and international students

El Zahraa is a fifth year PhD Candidate in the community-engaged health promotion lab. She is interested in immigrant health, integration, and movement behaviours. Her research utilizes different quantitative and qualitative approaches. El Zahraa has a Master of Public Health in Epidemiology and Biostatistics from the American University of Beirut and a Master of Science in Health Promotion from Purdue University. In her free time, she likes to hike, run, and spend time outdoors.

Kelechi Kemnele  k.kemnele@queensu.ca

PhD Student

Exploring the 24-Hour Movement Behaviours among adolescents in Antigua & Barbuda

Kelechi’s research uses community-engaged research methods to promote culturally relevant approaches to increasing physical activity among school-aged children in Antigua and Barbuda.

 

Alyssa Comfort  09ammc@queensu.ca

PhD Candidate

Designing and Implementing a 24-Hour Movement Behaviour Intervention for Mexican Adolescent Girls

I am using qualitative and quantitative methodologies to generate recommendations for the design and implementation of gender-tailored movement behaviour interventions for adolescent high school students in Mexico.

External support: Mitacs Globalink Research Award

Folasade Aladesuyi  21FTA1@queensu.ca

PhD Student

Folasade is a public health  professional with five years of experience in project implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of health programs. She has a masters in public health and has worked with various not-for-profit organizations to implement health education programs in underserved communities, focusing on adolescent health and wellbeing.

Research Interests: Adolescent Health, prevention of chronic diseases, community health.

Ana Sanchez  23VMH1@queensu.ca

MSc Student

Ana Sanchez was born and raised in Mexico, and did her Bachelor of Human Kinetics in the Health Promotion stream at the University of British Columbia. During her undergraduate studies she worked as a research assistant in the Applied Behavior Change Lab and discovered her passion for Community-Engaged research and Physical Activity Promotion. 

 

Research Interests: Physical Activity Promotion, Prevention of Chronic Diseases, Community-Engaged Research

Recent Graduates

Julia Lapeña

Julia Lapeña

Master’s Degree

14jil2@queensu.ca

Es-PACES on Mexican campuses: Cultural adaptation of the Physical Activity Campus Environmental Supports audit.

July 2022

Congratulations Julia!

Olivia Franks

Olivia Franks

Master’s Degree

Thesis Title:

Grounding Our Meals on Wheels Program in Community Voice: Exploring Food Practices and Perceived Wholistic Health in Wahta Mohawk Territory.

September 2021 

Congratulations Olivia!

 

Anoushka Moucessian

Anoushka Moucessian

Thesis Title:

 Why are we settling? Indigenous Cultural Safety Education for Counsellors in Ontario

Congratulations Anoushka for successfully completing your Doctoral degree (Fall 2020)

Brittany McBeath

Brittany McBeath

Thesis Title:

Conceptualization of Community Wellness in Three First Nations Communities

Congratulations Brittany on successfully completing your MSc! (Spring 2020)

Danielle Walwyn, MSc.

Danielle Walwyn, MSc.

Thesis Title:

Exploring Physical Activity Opportunities for Adolescents in Secondary Schools in Antigua

Congratulations Danielle for successfully completing your Master’s Degree (Summer 2019)

Andrea Ianni, MSc.

Andrea Ianni, MSc. 

Thesis Title:

The Kahnawà:ke Schools’ Diabetes Prevention Project: Perspectives on Data Sovereignty in Indigenous Community-Academic Partnered Health Research

Congratulations Andrea for successfully defending your Master’s Degree (Summer 2019) 

Community-Engaged Health Promotion Research

28 Division Street

School of Kinesiology and Health Studies

Queen’s University

Kingston, ON, K7L 3N6

Principal Investigator:  Lucie Lévesque 

Email: levesqul@queensu.ca

Research Coordinator:  Donna Ivimey

Email:  ivimeyd@queensu.ca