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Silvia Brouwer serves as a Teacher-researcher at the Center of Expertise Healthy Aging and Practice-oriented Sports Science group within Hanze University of Applied Sciences, Groningen. Her work centers on physical activity, healthy lifestyle promotion, and youth sports interventions targeting children aged 0-16 years.
She completed her PhD in 2020 with research on motor milestones, physical activity, overweight, and cardiometabolic risk trajectories from birth through adolescence. Her academic foundation includes a master's degree as indicated by the Dutch title "drs."
Dr. Brouwer's research focuses intensely on child health determinants, particularly how physical activity and fitness influence cardiometabolic risk development. She investigates critical relationships between infant motor milestones and childhood obesity, parental physical activity patterns and child behavior, and longitudinal physical activity trends using the GECKO Drenthe cohort.
Her 2018-2020 publications reveal consistent thematic concentration on pediatric physical activity measurement, motor development milestones, and obesity prevention. Key outlets include BMC Pediatrics and BMC Public Health, complemented by applied evaluation reports for regional youth health initiatives.
No formal scientific awards are documented in the provided materials, though her work shows measurable impact with 47 Mendeley readers and 6 citations per Plum Analytics metrics.
Through her teacher-researcher role, she contributes to advising via the JOGG (Jongeren op Gezond Gewicht) youth weight management initiative, presenting findings at professional workshops and conferences while collaborating on real-world intervention evaluations.
Her research operates within the Center of Expertise Healthy Aging framework, leveraging the GECKO Drenthe cohort for longitudinal analysis of physical activity health outcomes in children and adolescents across the Dutch province of Drenthe.
