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Christine Voss

(she/her)
BSc, MSc, PhD

Investigator, BC Children's Hospital
Investigator, Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Management
Core Faculty, UBC Human Early Learning Partnership

My research program seeks to optimize health, development, and quality of life for children and youth living with chronic health conditions. My work focuses on congenital heart disease, type 1 diabetes, and physical activity, and explores how clinical care, daily experiences, and community environments shape child health outcomes. By partnering with children, families, clinicians, and community organizations, I conduct quantitative, qualitative, patient-oriented, and administrative health data research to generate practical solutions for supporting healthy childhood development.

I am based at the Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Management within the University of British Columbia's Southern Medical Program in Kelowna, British Columbia, and am an Investigator at the BC Children's Hospital Research Institute. Through collaborations with the Interior Health Authority, healthcare providers, and research partners across British Columbia, my research spans clinical, community, and population-level settings.

Academic Affiliations

  • Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia
  • Research Theme: Evidence to Innovation
  • Research Group(s): Clinical and Community Data, Analytics and Informatics; Diabetes

Contact Information

Location

Reichwald Health Sciences Centre, 1088 Discovery Avenue, Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada, V1V 1V7

(250) 807-8042

christine.voss@ubc.ca

Physical Activity and Quality of Life in Children and Youth With Type 1 Diabetes: A Cross-sectional Analysis

Canadian Journal of Diabetes

Tyrell C. Sideroff and Nicholas Wall and Simran Gill and Trent Smith and Christine Voss

DOI: 10.1016/j.jcjd.2026.03.005

07 / 2026

Cognitive skills in children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes: a scoping review and meta-analysis

BMJ OPEN DIABETES RESEARCH & CARE

DOI: 10.1136/BMJDRC-2025-005635

Behaviour change techniques and physical activity outcomes in interventions for children with type 1 diabetes: A scoping review

DIABETES RESEARCH AND CLINICAL PRACTICE

DOI: 10.1016/J.DIABRES.2026.113321

The diabetes distress experience from the perspective of adolescents and their parents

FRONTIERS IN CLINICAL DIABETES AND HEALTHCARE

DOI: 10.3389/FCDHC.2026.1652578

Differential Associations Between Device-Assessed and Parent-Reported Physical Activity With Indicators of Mental Health in Children and Youth With Disabilities

PEDIATRIC EXERCISE SCIENCE

DOI: 10.1123/PES.2023-0178

Growing Up With Congenital Heart Disease: A Qualitative Research Study of Parents and Clinicians Experiences and Perspectives

CJC Pediatric and Congenital Heart Disease

F. Dylan Nemes and Erica V. Bennett and Kevin C. Harris and Nicholas Wall and Christine Voss

DOI: 10.1016/j.cjcpc.2024.10.006

02 / 2025

School-Based Physical Activity Levels and Quality of Physical Education Participation Experiences of Children with Physical and Sensory Disabilities Living in British Columbia, Canada

DISABILITIES

DOI: 10.3390/DISABILITIES5010008

Optimizing the integration of family physicians into cancer survivorship care in the BC Interior: a mixed methods study of physicians' opinions and experiences

Journal of Cancer Survivorship

DOI: 10.1007/S11764-025-01751-2

Canadian children and youth with disabilities are not meeting the 24-Hour Movement Guidelines: Cross-sectional results from the national physical activity measurement (NPAM) study for children and youth with disabilities

Disability and Health Journal

DOI: 10.1016/J.DHJO.2025.101842

Validity of the Fitbit wearable activity monitor to estimate step counts in free-living conditions in ambulatory children and youth living with disability

Disability and Rehabilitation

DOI: 10.1080/09638288.2025.2479655

Using Qualitative Geospatial Methods to Explore Physical Activity in Children with Developmental Disabilities: A Feasibility Study

DISABILITIES

DOI: 10.3390/DISABILITIES4040053

Primary care provider-led cancer survivorship care in the first 5 years following initial cancer treatment: a scoping review of the barriers and solutions to implementation

Journal of Cancer Survivorship

DOI: 10.1007/S11764-022-01268-Y

A Physical Activity Counselling Intervention Is Feasible And Acceptable To Children With Congenital Heart Disease

Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise

Feasibility Of Qualitative Geospatial Methods To Explore Physical Activity In Children With Developmental Disabilities

Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise

Feasibility and Utility of a Fitbit Tracker Among Ambulatory Children and Youth With Disabilities

Pediatric Exercise Science

DOI: 10.1123/PES.2022-0121

Toward a Better Understanding of Causal Factors Related to Physical Activity in Children With CHD: Some Answers, More Questions

Canadian Journal of Cardiology

DOI: 10.1016/J.CJCA.2021.10.005

Patterns of Early Coronary Artery Changes in Pediatric Heart Transplant Recipients Detected Using Optical Coherence Tomography

Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging

DOI: 10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.121.012486

Association of Preoperative Diuretic Use With Early Acute Kidney Injury in Infants With Biventricular Hearts Following Cardiac Surgery

Journal of the American Heart Association

DOI: 10.1161/JAHA.120.020519

Evaluation of conventional troponin I testing for the detection of myocardial dysfunction in children

Paediatrics & Child Health

DOI: 10.1093/PCH/PXAA011

Children with congenital heart disease exhibit seasonal variation in physical activity

PLOS ONE

Mimi T. Y. Kuan and Christine Voss and Jimmy Lopez and Nicole M. Hemphill and Kevin C. Harris

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0241187

11 / 2020

From it makes me feel free to they wont let me play: the body and physical activity-related perceptions and experiences of children with congenital heart disease and their parents

Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health

E. V. Bennett and C. Voss and G. Faulkner and K. C. Harris

DOI: 10.1080/2159676x.2019.1710858

01 / 2020

Physical activity measurement in people with spinal cord injury: comparison of accelerometry and self-report (the Physical Activity Recall Assessment for People with Spinal Cord Injury)

Disability and Rehabilitation

Ma, J.K. and McCracken, L.A. and Voss, C. and Chan, F.H.N. and West, C.R. and Martin Ginis, K.A.

DOI: 10.1080/09638288.2018.1494213

Physical Activity Is Associated With Better Vascular Function in Children and Adolescents With Congenital Heart Disease

Canadian Journal of Cardiology

Lopez, J.R. and Voss, C. and Kuan, M.T.Y. and Hemphill, N.M. and Sandor, G.G.S. and Harris, K.C.

DOI: 10.1016/j.cjca.2019.12.019

Fontan-Associated Liver Disease: Spectrum of Disease in Children and Adolescents

Journal of the American Heart Association

Rathgeber, S.L. and Guttman, O.R. and Lee, A.F. and Voss, C. and Hemphill, N.M. and Schreiber, R.A. and Harris, K.C.

DOI: 10.1161/JAHA.119.012529

Optical Coherence Tomography for the Early Detection of Coronary Vascular Changes in Children and Adolescents After Cardiac Transplantation: Findings From the International Pediatric OCT Registry

JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging

McGovern, E. and Hosking, M.C.K. and Balbacid, E. and Voss, C. and Berger, F. and Schubert, S. and Harris, K.C.

DOI: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2018.04.025

Pulmonary artery wall thickness in children with Fontan physiology: An optical coherence tomography case control study

Cardiology in the Young

McGovern, E. and Voss, C. and Brunner, N.W. and Duncombe, S. and Harris, K.C. and Hosking, M.H.

DOI: 10.1017/S1047951119000362

Cardiac consequences of spinal cord injury: Systematic review and meta-analysis

Heart

Williams, A.M. and Gee, C.M. and Voss, C. and West, C.R.

DOI: 10.1136/heartjnl-2018-313585

Quality of Life is Associated With Age and Executive Function in Children With Congenital Heart Disease

Circulation

Aortic Stiffness is Negatively Associated With Physical Activity in Children With Congenital Heart Disease

Circulation

Public Health Benefits of Active Transportation

Children's Active Transportation

Christine Voss

DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-811931-0.00001-6

Modifiable cardiovascular risk factors in adolescents and adults with congenital heart disease

Congenital Heart Disease

Harris, K.C. and Voss, C. and Rankin, K. and Aminzadah, B. and Gardner, R. and Mackie, A.S.

DOI: 10.1111/chd.12612

Digital behaviour change interventions to address sedentarism. Evaluation of a 4-month Fitbit intervention to increase physical activity levels in children with congenital heart disease

Journal of Physical Activity & Health

Coronary artery intimal thickening and ventricular dynamics in pediatric heart transplant recipients

Congenital Heart Disease

Cote, A.T. and Hosking, M. and Voss, C. and Human, D.G. and Sandor, G.G.S. and Harris, K.C.

DOI: 10.1111/chd.12629

Wrist Accelerometry for Physical Activity Measurement in Individuals With Spinal Cord Injury"A Need for Individually Calibrated Cut-Points

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

McCracken, L.A. and Ma, J.K. and Voss, C. and Chan, F.H. and Martin Ginis, K.A. and West, C.R.

DOI: 10.1016/j.apmr.2017.10.024

Intimal thickening at coronary bifurcations in pediatric heart transplant recipients

Pediatric Transplantation

Duncombe, S.L. and Hosking, M.C.K. and Cot, A.T. and Voss, C. and Harris, K.C.

DOI: 10.1111/petr.13100

Oscillometric and auscultatory blood pressure measurement methods in children: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Journal of Hypertension

Duncombe, S.L. and Voss, C. and Harris, K.C.

DOI: 10.1097/HJH.0000000000001178

Validity of Commercial Activity Trackers in Children With Congenital Heart Disease

Canadian Journal of Cardiology

Voss, C. and Gardner, R.F. and Dean, P.H. and Harris, K.C.

DOI: 10.1016/j.cjca.2016.11.024

Validity and reliability of the Physical Activity Questionnaire for Children (PAQ-C) and Adolescents (PAQ-A) in individuals with congenital heart disease

PLoS ONE

Voss, C. and Dean, P.H. and Gardner, R.F. and Duncombe, S.L. and Harris, K.C.

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0175806

Urban and suburban children's experiences with school travel " A case study

Journal of Transport and Health

Race, D.L. and Sims-Gould, J. and Lee, N.C. and Frazer, A.D. and Voss, C. and Naylor, P.-J. and McKay, H.A.

DOI: 10.1016/j.jth.2017.01.011

Physical activity evaluation in children with congenital heart disease

Heart

Voss, C. and Harris, K.C.

DOI: 10.1136/heartjnl-2017-311340

Does parental support influence children's active school travel?

Preventive Medicine Reports

Mah, S.K. and Nettlefold, L. and Macdonald, H.M. and Winters, M. and Race, D. and Voss, C. and McKay, H.A.

DOI: 10.1016/j.pmedr.2017.04.008

'Oscillometric': a type of device, not a type of measurement. Oh when will they ever learn? Reply

Journal of Hypertension

DOI: 10.1097/HJH.0000000000001393

Pathologic Liver Changes are Universally Present in Children With Fontan Physiology but Do Not Correlate With Fibroscan

Circulation

Physical activity and sedentary behavior in children with congenital heart disease

Journal of the American Heart Association

Voss, C. and Duncombe, S.L. and Dean, P.H. and de Souza, A.M. and Harris, K.C.

DOI: 10.1161/JAHA.116.004665

Evidence on the accuracy of automated blood pressure monitors in children: quantity versus quality Reply

Journal of Hypertension

DOI: 10.1097/HJH.0000000000001282

Aortic Stiffness is Associated With Coronary Artery Intimal Thickening in Pediatric Heart Transplant Recipients

Circulation

Environmental and psychosocial correlates of objectively measured physical activity among older adults.

Health Psychology

Lena Fleig and Maureen C. Ashe and Christine Voss and Suzanne Therrien and Joanie Sims-Gould and Heather A. McKay and Meghan Winters

DOI: 10.1037/hea0000403

12 / 2016

Does Activity Space Size Influence Physical Activity Levels of Adolescents? - A GPS study of an urban environment.

Preventive medicine reports

Lee, Nolan C and Voss, Christine and Frazer, Amanda D and Hirsch, Jana A and McKay, Heather A and Winters, Meghan

Public transit use and physical activity in community-dwelling older adults: Combining GPS and accelerometry to assess transportation-related physical activity

Journal of Transport and Health

Voss, C. and Sims-Gould, J. and Ashe, M.C. and McKay, H.A. and Pugh, C. and Winters, M.

DOI: 10.1016/j.jth.2016.02.011

Associations between showering behaviours following physical education, physical activity and fitness in English schoolchildren

European Journal of Sport Science

Sandercock, G.R.H. and Ogunleye, A. and Voss, C.

DOI: 10.1080/17461391.2014.987321

Does activity space size influence physical activity levels of adolescents?-A GPS study of an urban environment

Preventive Medicine Reports

Lee, N.C. and Voss, C. and Frazer, A.D. and Hirsch, J.A. and McKay, H.A. and Winters, M.

DOI: 10.1016/j.pmedr.2015.12.002

The Use of Activity Trackers with Exercise Prescription in Children with Congenital Heart Disease

Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise

DOI: 10.1249/01.MSS.0000487304.35950.71

Cardiovascular control, autonomic function, and elite endurance performance in spinal cord injury

Scandinavian journal of medicine & science in sports

West, C.R. and Gee, C.M. and Voss, C. and Hubli, M. and Currie, K.D. and Schmid, J. and Krassioukov, A.V.

DOI: 10.1111/sms.12308

Delayed bedtime due to screen time in schoolchildren: Importance of area deprivation

Pediatrics International

Ogunleye, A.A. and Voss, C. and Sandercock, G.R.

DOI: 10.1111/ped.12447

The good, the bad and the ugly of catheterization practices among elite athletes with spinal cord injury: A global perspective

Spinal Cord

Krassioukov, A. and Cragg, J.J. and West, C. and Voss, C. and Krassioukov-Enns, D.

DOI: 10.1038/sc.2014.208

Fitness testing for children: Let's mount the zebra!

Journal of Physical Activity and Health

Cohen, D.D. and Voss, C. and Sandercock, G.R.H.

DOI: 10.1123/jpah.2013-0345

Differences in adolescents' physical activity from school-travel between urban and suburban neighbourhoods in Metro Vancouver, Canada

Preventive Medicine Reports

Frazer, A. and Voss, C. and Winters, M. and Naylor, P.-J. and Higgins, J.W. and McKay, H.

DOI: 10.1016/j.pmedr.2015.02.008

Prevalence of elevated mean arterial pressure and how fitness moderates its association with BMI in youth (vol 16, pg 2046, 2013)

Public Health Nutrition

DOI: 10.1017/S1368980014002225

Six-year changes in body mass index and cardiorespiratory fitness of English schoolchildren from an affluent area

International Journal of Obesity

Sandercock, G.R.H. and Ogunleye, A. and Voss, C.

DOI: 10.1038/ijo.2015.105

School-travel by public transit: Rethinking active transportation.

Preventive medicine reports

Voss, Christine and Winters, Meghan and Frazer, Amanda and McKay, Heather

DOI: 10.1016/j.pmedr.2015.01.004

Where do they go and how do they get there? Older adults' travel behaviour in a highly walkable environment

Social Science and Medicine

Winters, M. and Voss, C. and Ashe, M.C. and Gutteridge, K. and McKay, H. and Sims-Gould, J.

DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.07.006

Association between habitual school travel and muscular fitness in youth

Preventive Medicine

Cohen, D. and Ogunleye, A.A. and Taylor, M. and Voss, C. and Micklewright, D. and Sandercock, G.R.H.

DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2014.07.036

Athletic performance and birth month: Is the relative age effect more than just selection bias?

International Journal of Sports Medicine

Sandercock, G.R.H. and Ogunleye, A.A. and Parry, D.A. and Cohen, D.D. and Taylor, M.J.D. and Voss, C.

DOI: 10.1055/s-0034-1368725

They go straight home - dont they? Using global positioning systems to assess adolescent school-travel patterns

Journal of Transport & Health

Voss, Christine and Winters, Meghan and Frazer, Amanda D. and McKay, Heather A.

Walking Further to School Increases Physical Activity in a Dose-Dependent Manner

Journal of Physical Activity & Health

They go straight home - don't they? Using global positioning systems to assess adolescent school-travel patterns

Journal of Transport and Health

Voss, C. and Winters, M. and Frazer, A.D. and McKay, H.A.

DOI: 10.1016/j.jth.2014.09.013

Associations Between School-Travel Physical Activity and Neighbourhood Type in Metro Vancouver Adolescents

Journal of Physical Activity & Health

Journal of Transport & Health

Journal of Transport & Health

Voss, Christine and Winters, Meghan and Frazer, Amanda D. and McKay, Heather A.

A cross-cultural comparison of body composition, physical fitness and physical activity between regional samples of Canadian and English children and adolescents

Canadian Journal of Public Health

Voss, C. and Sandercock, G. and Higgins, J.W. and Macdonald, H. and Nettlefold, L. and Naylor, P.-J. and McKay, H.

DOI: 10.17269/cjph.105.4478

Predicting Active Travel to School: The role of Preference and Parental Encouragement

Journal of Physical Activity & Health

Health Promoting Secondary Schools: Community-Based Research Examining Voice, Choice and the School Setting

Journal of Child and Adolescent Behaviour

Joan Wharf Higgins

DOI: 10.4172/jcalb.1000118

Prevalence of elevated mean arterial pressure and how fitness moderates its association with BMI in youth

Public Health Nutrition

Ogunleye, A.A. and Sandercock, G.R. and Voss, C. and Eisenmann, J.C. and Reed, K.

DOI: 10.1017/S1368980012004466

Quantification of the relative age effect in three indices of physical performance

Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research

Sandercock, G.R.H. and Taylor, M.J. and Voss, C. and Ogunleye, A.A. and Cohen, D.D. and Parry, D.A.

DOI: 10.1519/JSC.0b013e318291b28d

Physical Activity Questionnaire for children and adolescents: English norms and cut-off points

Pediatrics International

Voss, C. and Ogunleye, A.A. and Sandercock, G.R.H.

DOI: 10.1111/ped.12092

Associations between perceived parental physical activity and aerobic fitness in schoolchildren

Journal of physical activity & health

Voss, C. and Sandercock, G.R.

DOI: 10.1123/jpah.10.3.397

Centile curves and normative values for the twenty metre shuttle-run test in English schoolchildren

Journal of Sports Sciences

Sandercock, G. and Voss, C. and Cohen, D. and Taylor, M. and Stasinopoulos, D.M.

DOI: 10.1080/02640414.2012.660185

Temporal relationships between screen-time and physical activity with cardiorespiratory fitness in English Schoolchildren: A 2-year longitudinal study

Preventive Medicine

Aggio, D. and Ogunleye, A.A. and Voss, C. and Sandercock, G.R.H.

DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2012.04.012

Prevalence of high screen time in English youth: Association with deprivation and physical activity

Journal of Public Health

Ogunleye, A.A. and Voss, C. and Sandercock, G.R.

DOI: 10.1093/pubmed/fdr074

Achilles tendon shape and echogenicity on ultrasound among active badminton players

Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports

Malliaras, P. and Voss, C. and Garau, G. and Richards, P. and Maffulli, N.

DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0838.2010.01156.x

A Comparison Of Weight Status And Health-related Fitness Between Canadian And English 10-yr Olds

Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise

Screen time and physical activity in youth: thief of time or lifestyle choice?

Journal of physical activity & health

Sandercock G, R.H. and Ogunleye, A. and Voss, C.

DOI: 10.1123/jpah.9.7.977

Recreational cycling and cardiorespiratory fitness in english youth

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Maher, M.S. and Voss, C. and Ogunleye, A.A. and Micklewright, D.P. and Sandercock, G.R.H.

DOI: 10.1249/MSS.0b013e318235158a

Comparison of cardiorespiratory fitness and body mass index between rural and urban youth: Findings from the east of England healthy hearts study

Pediatrics International

Sandercock, G.R.H. and Ogunleye, A. and Voss, C.

DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-200X.2011.03354.x

Ten-year secular changes in muscular fitness in English children

Acta Paediatrica, International Journal of Paediatrics

Cohen, D. and Voss, C. and Taylor, M. and Delextrat, A. and Ogunleye, A. and Sandercock, G.

DOI: 10.1111/j.1651-2227.2011.02318.x

Contrasting physical activity patterns in children and adolescents living in differing environments in the UK

Scandinavian Journal of Public Health

Ogunleye, A.A. and Voss, C. and Barton, J.L. and Sandercock, G.R.H. and Pretty, J.N.

DOI: 10.1177/1403494811406315

Ten year secular declines in the cardiorespiratory fitness of affluent English children are largely independent of changes in body mass index

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Sandercock, G. and Voss, C. and McConnell, D. and Rayner, P.

DOI: 10.1136/adc.2009.162107

Associations between habitual school-day breakfast consumption, body mass index, physical activity and cardiorespiratory fitness in English schoolchildren

European Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Sandercock, G.R.H. and Voss, C. and Dye, L.

DOI: 10.1038/ejcn.2010.145

Aerobic fitness and mode of travel to school in english schoolchildren

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Voss, C. and Sandercock, G.

DOI: 10.1249/MSS.0b013e3181b11bdc

Handgrip strength in English schoolchildren

Acta Paediatrica, International Journal of Paediatrics

Cohen, D.D. and Voss, C. and Taylor, M.J.D. and Stasinopoulos, D.M. and Delextrat, A. and Sandercock, G.R.H.

DOI: 10.1111/j.1651-2227.2010.01723.x

Associations between school-day breakfast consumption, BMI, physical activity and cardiorespiratory fitness in English schoolchildren

Proceedings of the Nutrition Society

DOI: 10.1017/S0029665109992436

Vertical jumping and leg power normative data for English school children aged 10-15 years

Journal of Sports Sciences

Taylor, M.J.D. and Cohen, D. and Voss, C. and Sandercock, G.R.H.

DOI: 10.1080/02640411003770212

Does the twenty meter shuttle-run test elicit maximal effort in 11- to 16-year-olds?

Pediatric Exercise Science

Voss, C. and Sandercock, G.

DOI: 10.1123/pes.21.1.55

Twenty-metre shuttle run test performance of English children aged 11 - 15 years in 2007: Comparisons with international standards

Journal of Sports Sciences

Sandercock, G. and Voss, C. and Gladwell, V.

DOI: 10.1080/02640410801910301
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