Dr. Emmanuel Stamatakis, PhD

Emmanuel is a Professor of Physical Activity and Population Health, an NHMRC Senior Research Fellow, and the physical activity and exercise Theme Leader at Charles Perkins Centre, University of Sydney. He received his PhD from the University of Bristol in 2003 and did a post-doctoral fellowship in epidemiology at University College London. He leads a program of research examining the health effects of physical activity and other lifestyle health behaviours using cohort studies and international data consortia. Emmanuel established and leads the Prospective Physical Activity, Sitting and Sleep consortium (ProPASS), an international collaboration involving a number of cohorts of high resolution physical activity and sedentary behaviour data and administrative health records linkage. He has published over 250 peer-reviewed papers and in 2019 was named in Clarivate’s Highly Cited Researchers list. He is involved in the 2019-20 update of the WHO global physical activity and sedentary behaviour as guidelines the Guidelines Development Group Co-Chair and lead of the adult physical activity sub-group. He is one of the four Editors of the British Journal of Sports Medicine and the Editor-in-Chief of BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine.