Professor Adrian Bauman, Director
MB,BS, MPH, PhD, FAFPHM

Current positions:

• Sesquicentenary Professor of Public Health (Behavioural Epidemiology and Health Promotion), School of Public Health, University of Sydney 2006 Australia
• Director, NSW Centre for Physical Activity and Health 2002-present
• Director, Australian Centre for Health Promotion, Sydney University 2000-present
• Adjunct Professor, Human Movement and Exercise Sciences, Deakin University, Melbourne
• Adjunct Professor of Human Movement, University of Queensland , St Lucia Brisbane Qld
• Former position: 1993-Jan 2004 - Professor of Public Health and Epidemiology , University of NSW, Sydney Australia

For the past 20 years Adrian Bauman has had diverse research interests in health promotion and epidemiology, with an emphasis on disease prevention research, particularly physical activity and public health. He has published more than 200 peer reviewed scientific papers, 40 monographs and book chapters, and three books, and has extensive research experience in public health approaches to increasing physical activity and interventions to improve risk factor profiles. In addition, he has interests in quantitative health promotion research methods, adolescent health surveillance, evaluating community wide interventions and evaluating of health related mass media campaigns and patient education programs.

He has had extensive experience in the design, implementation and analysis of behavioural risk factor surveys at the population level, and has carried out such surveys in developed and developing countries for adults and adolescents. These have focused particularly on cardiovascular risk factors, such as physical inactivity, diet and tobacco use, but have also ranged across other areas of behavioural and social epidemiology.

He has special interests in Physical activity and Public Health, and directs the New South Wales Centre for Physical Activity and Health, has chaired the Australian National Heart Foundation National Physical Activity committee 1996-2002, and was Chair of the New South Wales Premier's Taskforce on Physical activity 1996-2003.

Adrian has other positions related to physical activity in Australia and elsewhere, and in 2002-3 served on the WHO Reference Group for the Global Physical Activity and Diet strategy, and directed the Data Management Centre for the IPAQ (WHO/CDC/Karolinska) international studies of the reliability , validity and prevalence of physical activity.

Other work:
Adrian also has longstanding interests in mental health epidemiology, in population-level adolescent surveillance, in health service research, and has taught extensively to medical students and to public health postgraduate students in disease prevention, evidence based medicine, epidemiology, health promotion and public health.