- Sally.barber@bthft.nhs.uk
Sally leads Born in Bradford’s physical activity research group and is a Research Director for the Sport England funded Join Us:Move Play (JU:MP) Programme, a whole system intervention to tackle children and young people’s physical inactivity. Sally also leads the Healthy Bodies work stream of the early life prevention theme in the NIHR Yorkshire and Humber Applied Research Collaboration (ARC). Sally has a particularly interest investigating obesity prevention for South Asian children through working with Islamic Religious Settings, and works on the Local Government Association and Public Health England funded childhood obesity trailblazer programme, developing and evaluating a complex intervention for this purpose.
Sally Barber's latest projects
Improving access to green spaces for adolescent girls in Bradford
Adolescent girls are less likely to be physically active than boys. South Asian children are also less likely to be physically active than children from other cultural backgrounds. This means...
Setting up a community type 2 diabetes service for children and young people
When children and young people develop type 2 diabetes, it is a serious condition that can shorten their lives. People diagnosed with type 2 diabetes before they are 30 live,...
JU:MP Join Us Move Play
JUMP is a physical activity programme which works with families, communities, schools, organisations, makes improvements to the environment, and embed physical activity into local policy with the aim of improving...
