Interests
Colin Regan MSc, BA
Health Promotion Manager and Journalist
Society requires more informed and effective policy and practice to ensure a cohesive community response to dementia and its impact.
Current Work
Previously a journalist/editor, Colin works as Community & Health manager with the Gaelic Athletic Association (Ireland's largest sporting and community organization) where his role encompasses all aspects of health promotion and community development.
Personal Hero
My parents and 11 siblings
Words of Strength
Storyteller, team player, problem solver
Vision
If it takes a village to raise a child, a community is also required to help keep one healthy throughout the lifecourse. Colin believes that society requires more informed and effective policy and practice to ensure a cohesive community response to dementia and its impact.
Strategy
Colin's work harnesses the power of sport to deliver health promotion at individual, community, and societal level. It recognises the role brain health plays in all our daily lives by focusing on the biopsychosocial model of health promotion.
Impact
Colin hopes to explore the world of sport and other untapped community networks as vehicles for the delivery of evidence-based communications and interventions proven to advance brain health and reduce the scale and impact of dementia.
Motivation
By opening up the potential of sport to the scientific community, Colin hopes that Ireland can become an international example when it comes to innovative ways of reducing the risk factors associated with brain health, and understanding dementia.
Education & Experience
A communications and journalist graduate from Technical University Dublin, Colin worked as a journalist and editor for 10 years in Ireland and America. He changed lanes in 2010, and following a masters degree in Sports Management in the University College Dublin, has worked for the past 14 years as the Gaelic Athletic Association's Community & Health manager.
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