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.
