Shazya Karmali, PhD

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Dr. Shazya Karmali is the Research Manager at the British Columbia Injury Research and Prevention Unit (BCIRPU), British Columbia Children’s Hospital. Dr. Karmali completed her PhD in Health Promotion at Western University in February 2020, where she studied healthy behaviours within the family unit, specifically focusing on physical activity and nutrition behaviours of parents with overweight/obesity and their children. Currently, her work at BCIRPU focuses on concussion prevention, Indigenous injury prevention, and investigating the impacts of COVID-19 on intentional and unintentional injuries. Her roles include: qualitative research, project management, grant writing, study design, and program evaluation. Dr. Karmali is also currently a member of the Concussion Awareness Training Tool team, and is coordinating the SHRed Concussions Study at UBC, a pan-Canadian research study investigating the prevention, recognition, and treatment of concussion in high-school athletes who play sports associated with a higher risk of concussion.