Strategies For Enhancing The Implementation Of School‐Based Policies Or Practices Targeting Risk Factors For Chronic Disease
Dr Kwok Ng is a postdoctoral researcher at the Physical Activity for Health Cluster and Department of Physical Education and Sport Sciences, University of Limerick. At UL, his main research area is on health and health behaviours during early adolescence through the Healthy Ireland Demonstration Project (HIDP) led by Professor Catherine Woods (UL) and Professor Donal O’Shea (St. Vincent’s University Hospital, UCD). A core area of the HIDP is the school-based policies and practices for reducing sedentariness, increasing physical activity and improving healthy eating and health literacy. Dr Ng is also a member of the Finnish Health Behaviour in School-aged Children Study – a WHO collaborative study – where he is the co-chair of the chronic conditions and disability working group. He has led chapters in Finnish national Physical Activity reports in relation to young adolescents with long term illnesses and disabilities. Dr Ng is the Vice-President of the European Federation of Adapted Physical Activity (EUJAPA) and the European Representative of the International Federation of Adapted Physical Activity (IFAPA) since 2015. Dr Ng serves as an editor of open access journals BMC Public Health, European Journal of Adapted Physical Activity and Injury Epidemiology.
