Sedentary Behavior and Health - Concepts, Assessments, and Interventions (Relié)

Weimo Zhu is a professor in the Department of Kinesiology and Community Health at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. An internationally known scholar in Kines-metrics (Measurement and Evaluation in Kinesiology), Dr. Zhu's primary research interests are in the study and application of new measurement theories and statistical models and methods to the field of kinesiology, especially in youth physical fitness, the impact of body-mind exercises on health, and physical activity and inactivity and public health.
He has published more than 100 SCl/SSCI journal articles and his research has been funded by external grants, including NIH and RWJF. He is the editor-in-chief of the Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, one of the most respected research journals in Kinesiology with a long, rich history, and he was an associate editor of the Journal of Physical Activity and Health and Frontiers in Physiology.
He is an active fellow of the US National Academy of Kinesiology, the American College of Sports Medicine, and the Research Consortium of SHAPE America. He was a member of the Scientific Board of the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports from 2005 to 2008, and he was appointed as a panel member of the Institute of Medicine of the US National Academies' committee on "Fitness Measures and Health Outcomes in Youth" in 2011.
Dr. Zhu has served on the FITNESSGRAM/ACTIVITYGRAM Advisory Committee since 2002. Photo by Anna Flanagan, courtesy of UIUC. Neville Owen is a National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia Senior Principal Research Fellow, Head of the Behavioural Epidemiology Laboratory at the Baker Heart & Diabetes Institute, and Distinguished Professor of Health Sciences at Swinburne University, in Melbourne, Australia.
He has appointments as an adjunct professor in Medicine at Monash University, Population and Global Health at the University of Melbourne, and Public Health at the University of Queensland. His research aims to identify how environmental and policy initiatives may be used to prevent type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and cancer. His early studies were in tobacco control and behavior change for smoking cessation and exercise.
His research now focuses on changing the environmental determinants of physical activity and sedentary behavior. This is through mechanistically focused laboratory experiments, epidemiologic observational studies, real-world intervention trials, and improving the health of urban populations through influencing the built environment to increase physical activity. Photo courtesy of Swinburne University of Technology.