Heather Macdonald PhD

Heather Macdonald  is former Associate Director of Research for the Bone Health Research Group at the University of British Columbia and the Centre for Hip Health and Mobility. She received her PhD from the University of British Columbia in Exercise Science and went on to complete a postdoctoral fellowship in bone imaging at the University of Calgary. Her main research interest is the relationship between physical activity and bone health across the lifespan, with a particular focus on how physical activity affects bone growth and development in healthy and clinical populations as measured using state-of-the-art bone imaging techniques. Heather also has a keen interest in promoting physical activity and healthy living in elementary and secondary schools and has been involved with intervention trials that have led to changes in provincial policies related to school-based physical activity.