Alison McMinn
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Alison McMinn is a Career Development Fellow investigating the determinants of physical activity in children. She studied Health Sciences at Aberdeen University and continued on there to complete an MSc in Public Health and Health Services Research. Later she came to Cambridge and completed an MPhil in Epidemiology followed by a PhD on the socio-cultural correlates of physical activity in children.
Alison has previously worked in health promotion and public health research and policy. Alison’s current research focuses on cross-sectional and longitudinal associations between psychological, socio-cultural and environmental factors and children’s physical activity. Her primary aim is to identify factors that would be useful to target in interventions to promote physical activity in children.
Alison is a project tutor on the London School’s distance learning MSc course in Epidemiology and is involved in teaching MPhil Epidemiology students at Cambridge University.
Selected publications:
McMinn AM, van Sluijs EMF, Harvey NC, Cooper C, Inskip HM, Godfrey KM, Griffin SJ. Validation of a maternal questionnaire on correlates of physical activity in preschool children. Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act 2009; 6:81.
McMinn AM, van Sluijs EMF, Wedderkopp N, Froberg K, Griffin SJ. Socio-cultural correlates of physical activity in children and adolescents: findings from the Danish arm of the European Youth Heart Study. Pediatr Exerc Sci 2008; 20 (3): 319-332.
van Sluijs EMF, McMinn AM, Griffin SJ. Effectiveness of interventions to promote physical activity in children and adolescents: systematic review of controlled trials.BMJ 2007; 335 (7622): 703-707.