Karl Aquino

Karl Aquino is a fourth-year Comparative Physiology Specialist and Biology for Health Science Major at the University of Toronto Mississauga. His research focuses on enhancing Type 2 Diabetes prevention among young adults in Peel by mapping and understanding access to physical activity and nutritional supports. Karl is currently assisting in knowledge translation, data collection, and conducting qualitative interviews with young adults to better understand their lived experiences and examine the interrelationships of availability and access to physical activity and healthy diet patterns. He also helped in reaching out to community partners in Peel to be part of the project's community advisory board. This work will help further support the project’s overall objective of identifying the social determinants at the individual, contextual, and system levels to inform further T2D prevention solutions in Peel. 

Supervisor: Dr. Matthew Adams