Chris Rissel
Professor
Public Health
University of Sydney
Australia
Biography
Dr.Chris Rissel is a Professor of Public Health at School of Public Health
Research Interest
Professor Chris Rissel has over 250 peer-reviewed published articles plus dozens of research reports and book chapters. His current research interests focus on obesity prevention and active transport with a particular emphasis on cycling advocacy. He also has research interests in tobacco control and sexual health. He was a co-author of the national report 'Getting Australia Moving - barriers, facilitators and interventions to get more Australians physically active through cycling'. Chris is one of the Chief Investigators of the first and second Australian Study of Health and Relationships (AHSR) funded by the NHMRC, looking at changes in sexual health and behaviourin Australia.
Publications
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Rissel, C., Richters, J., de Visser, R., Mckee, A., Yeung, A., Caruana, T. (2017). A Profile of Pornography Users in Australia: Findings From the Second Australian Study of Health and Relationships. Journal of Sex Research, 54(2), 227-240
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Wen, L., Rissel, C., Baur, L., Hayes, A., Xu, H., Whelan, A., Hua, M., Shaw, M., Phongsavan, P. (2017). A 3-Arm randomised controlled trial of Communicating Healthy Beginnings Advice by Telephone (CHAT) to mothers with infants to prevent childhood obesity. BMC Public Health, 17(1), 1-10
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Petrunoff, N., Rissel, C., Wen, L. (2017). "If you don't do parking management. Forget your behaviour change, it's not going to work.": Health and transport practitioner perspectives on workplace active travel promotion. PloS One, 12(1), 1-20
