Puterman, Eli

Puterman, Eli

PhD

Education, School of Kinesiology

Biography:

Eli is a Canada Research Chair Tier 2 in Physical Activity and Health and a Michael Smith Scholar for Health Research. His research seeks to understand the benefits of exercise on stress pathways of disease. Eli is currently developing new intervention trials and laboratory-based studies to disentangle the extent to which both acute and long-term exercise can strengthen both psychological and biological stress responses and immune function in children and adults alike. Together with his team of students and collaborators, he has completed movement-based trials with several groups, including healthcare workers, family caregivers, women living with HIV, and young adults with reported early childhood adversity. Eli is also co-lead of Community Engagement for UBC’s Edwin H. S. Leong Centre for Healthy Aging, mobilizing research on healthy aging to the public.

Research areas of interest:

exercise interventions; priority groups; lifespan adversity; randomized trials

Research Themes:

Sexual and Reproductive Health Chronic Disease

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