Presenter: Aron Myers, Kinesiology, Global Public Health Scholars
This semester I will be researching the effects of exercise on brain health with Dr. Smith’s team. The study examines cognitively healthy adults aged 60-89 who exercise less than 2 times a week. After a series of baseline assessments, participants are split into 2 groups and given an exercise program that gets progressively more difficult as the study continues. My roles in this process include administering some of the baseline physical assessments such as blood pressure, heart rate, sub max testing and other markers, data entry, participant outreach, and group fitness class instructor. Brain health is an extremely important area of interest in public health and this research seeks to make an association between exercise and Alzheimer’s prevention.