Renée Lyons is Professor in the School of Health and Human Performance and Department of Psychology at Dalhousie University. She is Scientific Director of the Atlantic Health Promotion Research Centre (AHPRC) and holds a Canada Research Chair in Health Promotion.

An expert in the area of chronic disease prevention and management with emphasis on knowledge translation (KT) theory and practice, she has been principal investigator for over $25M in health research in rural health, stroke, public health, oral health of seniors, and chronic disease prevention in midlife and youth. A leader in research development in Atlantic Canada, she has also been Special Advisor to the President of Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR) and a science advisor to both Industry Canada and Health Canada.

She is lead author on two new publications on chronic illness and KT in collaboration with researchers at the University of Oxford and has developed KT assessment tools for two of Canada’s Networks of Centres of Excellence.