Emmanuel Stamatakis
Assistant Professor
Obesity
University of Sydney
Australia
Biography
Emmanuel completed a PhD on physical activity and childhood obesity at the University of Bristol (UK). Between 2003 and 2014 he was based at University College London where he initially led the development and implementation of physical activity measures in large-scale nationwide epidemiological surveillance studies. He was subsequently awarded a Postgraduate Fellowship Award (2007) and a Career Development Fellowship (2011) by the National Institute for Health Research to studying the influence of physical activity, sedentary behaviour, and cardiorespiratory fitness on cardiometabolic and mortality. He joined the University of Sydney as an Associate Professor of Exercise, Health, and Physical Activity in early 2014, currently he is a National Health and Medical Research Council Senior Research Fellow at Charles Perkins Centre and the School of Public Health .
Research Interest
Emmanuel leads a research program of epidemiologic and interventional research investigating how lifestyles and health related behaviours (physical activity, sedentary behaviour, screen time, alcohol consumption, sleep, dog ownership) influence cardiometabolic health, mental wellbeing and mortality risk; and how the socioeconomic environment influences these lifestyle health behaviours and their health effects.
Publications
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Strong, A., Stoutenberg, M., Hobson-Powell, A., Hargreaves, M., Beeler, H., Stamatakis, E. (2017). An evaluation of physical activity training in Australian medical school curricula. Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, 20(6), 534-538.
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Benvenutti, M., da Silva Alves, E., Michael, S., Ding, D., Stamatakis, E., Edwards, K. (2017). A single session of hatha yoga improves stress reactivity and recovery after an acute psychological stress task-A counterbalanced, randomized crossover trial in healthy individuals. Complementary Therapies in Medicine, 35, 120-126.
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Cheng, S., Alison, J., Dennis, S., Stamatakis, E., Spencer, L., McNamara, R., Sims, S., McKeough, Z. (2017). A behaviour change intervention to reduce sedentary time in people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: Protocol for a randomised controlled trial. Journal of Physiotherapy, 63(3), 182-182.
