Dr. Matthew Kwan is Associate Professor in the Department of Child and Youth Studies at Brock University, and a holder of a Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in Youth Mental Health and Performance. He is Co-Director of the INfant Child and youth health (INCH) lab, and Adjunct Professor in the Departments of Family Medicine and Kinesiology at McMaster University. Dr. Kwan has formal training in Kinesiology with a specific focus in health and exercise psychology, but his current research interests reflect a broader interdisciplinary science comprising behavioural medicine, health and exercise psychology, and population health.

Dr. Denver Brown is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Texas at San Antonio, with a joint appointment in Department of Kinesiology. Dr. Brown was hired as part of the University of Texas at San Antonio’s Human Performance Research Initiative and recently established the INCH lab at UTSA. The overarching goal of Dr. Brown’s research program is to improve the health and wellbeing of children, youth, and emerging adults through the promotion, adoption and maintenance of healthy active lifestyles. Denver’s current work focuses on improving our understanding of intrapersonal and interpersonal determinants of physical activity behavior, and population health research that employs time-use epidemiology to investigate the interactive impact of movement behaviors (i.e., physical activity, sedentary behavior, sleep) on health outcomes.

Dr. Cairney is the co-director of the INCH lab and is the head of School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences at the University of Queensland in Australia. Dr. Cairney is also an Adjunct Professor in the Departments of Public Health Sciences and Psychiatry at the University of Toronto and Department of Family Medicine at McMaster University and a core scientist with the Offord Centre for Child Studies, CanChild Centre for Childhood Disability Research at McMaster University, and the independent Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences.

He is an academic leader in the field of paediatric exercise medicine and child health research and is particularly well-known for his work on developmental coordination disorder (DCD) and its impact on the health and well-being of children. He has held, among other research leadership positions, a Canada Research Chair in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto, and a Professorship in Child Health, and subsequently a Research Chair, in the Department of Family Medicine at McMaster University.

Dr. Sara King-Dowling is a Research Associate working jointly at the INCH lab and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s (CHOP) Division of Oncology. She completed her PhD in Kinesiology in the INCH lab and her postdoctoral training in the Child Health and Exercise Medicine Program at McMaster. Her research focuses on exploring the multifaceted predictors and health benefits of physical activity engagement in children with neuro-developmental disorders and chronic health conditions.

Sara’s favourite ways to get active are going to an F45 class and hiking!