
Dr Marlize De Vivo
@marlizedv
CEO at The Active Pregnancy Foundation | Senior Research Fellow at @SHU_AWRC | Programme Manager National Centre for Sport & Exercise Medicine (NCSEM) Sheffield
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Met some of my research heroes that have done a phenomenal job translating their work into policy and practice. Absolutely slaying it 💁♀️ Margie Davenport, PhD Dr Marlize De Vivo Ros Cooke Even found some time to go to the BASEM casino with Carly Day, MD and loose all our fake money 🙈2️⃣9️⃣

🚀 Exciting news! We’ve teamed up with Good Boost to host a series of focus groups for pregnant and postnatal women to discuss training tech! 🌟 Know someone who’d be interested? Please share! 💬 🔗 shorturl.at/Q6xBK



The new Women in Medicine and Health issue and podcast are out now 🚑👓🧠🏥💊🩺🧪🔬❤️🦴 📱💻womanthology.co.uk 🎧 womanthology.co.uk/womanthology-p… 📲 plinkhq.com/i/1523676207 Featuring ActivePregnancyFoundation, Royal Osteoporosis Society, Bham Women's Hosp 💙, College of Optometrists #WomenInMedicine #WomenInHealth


In 2023, Kirsty Sale was honoured with ActivePregnancyFoundation’s Researcher of the Year award for her contributions to women’s health & performance. Today, I watched her open the Centre of Excellence for Women in Sport Manchester Met Institute of Sport ✨ What a woman❣️ Huge congrats to all involved 💪


🚨Very proud of this paper for three reasons: 1. lots of early career researchers as co-authors 2. this tool is designed to be used in practice to benefit female athletes 3. it pulls together over 20 years of experience in one resource! ➕ its OPEN ACCESS! bmjopensem.bmj.com/content/10/4/e…

We’re doing good things with Good Boost! Wanna know how we’re working together to co-create new technologies to enable more pregnant & postnatal women to enjoy physical activities in swimming pools? Read here 👇🏼 activepregnancyfoundation.org/post/apf-good-…

Registration is now open for our next in person Injury Rehab Network event with BASRaT and University Academy 92 (UA92) with an early bird rate of just £22.38 available until the end of 2024. 📢Prehab and rehab in female athlete health 📅12th Feb, 4-8pm 📌UA92 🎟️eventbrite.co.uk/e/prehab-rehab…

Maternal and fetal responses to acute high-intensity resistance exercise during pregnancy 🤰💪 NEW #OriginalResearch in the BJSM ✅ What happens to fetal heartrate during resistance exercise? Does the use of Valsalva effect this? Exciting new study from Margie Davenport, PhD and team



Publication from my PhD! Colocation of #healthcare and #leisure to promote #physicalactivity as part of a #wholesystems journals.lww.com/acsm-esm/fullt… #colocation #healthcare #lesiure #physicalactivity Katie Shearn helenhumphreys Anna Lowe Dr Marlize De Vivo Beth Brown Rob Copeland

New and exciting fully funded PhD opportunity at University of Leicester FindAPhD: findaphd.com/phds/projectde… Claire Meek 🌱Leicester Diabetes #exercise #gestational #diabetes

Proof, if ever there needs any, that organisations working together to a common goal can really make a difference. Thanks to all the teams involved in the #MovingMumsInitiative. Sheffield Hospitals Sheffield Hallam University Yorkshire Sport Fndn NCSEM England Sheffield Wednesday Community activepregnancyfoundation.org/post/transform…



Nominations are now OPEN for our APF Awards 2025!! They shine a light on the incredible leadership, good practice, innovation, & research that supports pregnant and postnatal women to become or stay active in a way that works for them. Nominate NOW! activepregnancyfoundation.org/apfawards2025


The Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology 2025 Canadian Guideline for Physical Activity, Sedentary Behaviour and Sleep throughout the First Year Postpartum is set to release later this week in British Journal of Sports Medicine (BJSM) !!


