Dr. Heather Gainforth – Ph.D.
Dr. Heather Gainforth
Ph.D.
Dr. Heather Gainforth is an ICORD Principal Investigator, Associate Professor at UBC Okanagan, and a Michael Smith Health Research BC Scholar. Completing her M.S.c and Ph.D. in Kinesiology at Queen’s University, Dr. Gainforth completed her post-doctoral research at University College London in the Centre for Behaviour Change. Dr. Gainforth leads the Applied Behaviour Change Lab within UBC Okanagan’s CFI-funded Centre for Health Behaviour Change. Dr. Gainforth’s research program aims to investigate how evidence-based behaviour change research is applied in the real world and to advance the science and practice of integrated knowledge translation (IKT). Dr. Gainforth leads the SSHRC-funded research partnership that co-developed the first integrated knowledge translation (IKT) guiding principles for conducting spinal cord injury (SCI) research in partnership (www.iktprinciples.com).