What is your family doing to remain physically active and mentally resilient through the pandemic?

In this episode of Open Dialogue Live, researchers from the Faculty of Health will discuss the emerging impacts of COVID-19 on our well-being and how to keep families thriving.

They will discuss family dietary health, household consumer purchasing changes and how changes in movement, outdoor play behaviours and recreational pursuits may have affected the physical and mental health of your family.

Our panelists, joined by host Dr. Sara Kirk, professor of health promotion in the School of Health and Human Performance and the Scientific Director of the Healthy Populations Institute:

• Dr. Catherine L. Mah, MD, FRCPC, PhD, is Canada Research Chair in Promoting Healthy Populations, Senior Research Scholar with the Healthy Populations Institute and Associate Professor in the School of Health Administration, Faculty of Health at Dalhousie University. Dr. Mah will discuss the emerging impacts of Covid-19 on food purchasing and dietary health in Atlantic Canada.
• Dr. Sarah Moore is an assistant professor in the School of Health and Human Performance in the Faculty of Health and scholar at Dalhousie’s Healthy Populations Institute at Dalhousie University. Dr. Moore will present on child and family health during COVID-19.
• Crystal Watson (BRec'00, MA(Leisure Studies)'10) is executive director for Recreation Nova Scotia and a health PhD candidate at Dalhousie pursuing her research interest in understanding the play experiences of African Nova Scotian children. She will address recreation for mental health.

Read more about the panelists on the Alumni & Friends website.

The event will be livestreamed on Alumni and Friends Facebook Live and viewers will have an opportunity to engage during the Q&A portion following the discussion. Although we hope you can watch live, you will also be provided access to the recording following the event.

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Open Dialogue Live was created as a complement to the Open Dialogue program and launched in spring 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic through virtual events. The programming offers an opportunity to collaborate, discuss and otherwise engage in meaningful and thoughtful discussions.