Melody Ding
University of Sydney, Australia
Melody became co-Editor of JPAH in 2023 after previously serving as one of the Journal’s Senior Associate Editors. She is a Professor with the Sydney School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health and the Charles Perkins Centre, at the University of Sydney. She is co-lead of the Sport and Physical Activity Research and Teaching Network. As an epidemiologist and population behavioral scientist, she works at the intersection of physical activity, epidemiology, and chronic disease prevention, with a focus on the environmental and social contexts. She led the Lancet Physical Activity Series in 2016 and served as a steering committee member in 2021. Born and raised in China, she studied marine biology at the Ocean University of China prior to receiving an MPH from San Diego State University and a PhD from the Joint Doctoral Program in Public Health at the University of California San Diego and San Diego State University in the USA.
Pedro C. Hallal
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Pedro became Editor of JPAH in 2021 after previously serving on the Journal’s Editorial Board and as a Senior Associate Editor. In 2022, he became a Professor in the Department of Kinesiology and Community Health at the University of Illinois. Prior to that, he served as the President of the Federal University of Pelotas, Brazil from 2017 to 2020, where he was also Professor and Director of the MPH and PhD graduate programs in Epidemiology. He has published more than 500 scientific articles in the fields of physical activity and public health and his research has been funded by Brazilian and international agencies, including Wellcome Trust. He was the leader of the 2012 Lancet Physical Activity Series and served as a steering committee member of the 2016 and 2021 series. He is one of the founders and former president of the Brazilian Society of Physical Activity and Health. More recently, he served as the Principal Investigator for the EPICOVID19 project, the largest epidemiological study on COVID-19 in Brazil, and in 2021 was named Fulbright Chair in Public Health at University of California, San Diego. He is a member of the International Society for Physical Activity and Health. Pedro earned his PhD in Epidemiology from the Federal University of Pelotas, Brazil in 2005.
Editors Emeriti
Editors EmeritiSteven N. Blair, University of South Carolina, USA (Founding Editor)
James R. Morrow, Jr., University of North Texas, USA (Founding Editor)
Jennifer M. Hootman, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, USA
Harold W. Kohl III, University of Texas–Austin, USA
Loretta DiPietro, George Washington University, USA
Senior Associate Editors
Shiho Amagasa
Teikyo University, Japan
Salomé Aubert
Active Healthy Kids Global Alliance, France
Valerie Carson
University of Alberta, Canada
Borja del Pozo Cruz
University of Cádiz, Spain
Genevieve F. Dunton
University of Southern California, USA
Alex Florindo
University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Rebecca E. Hasson
University of Michigan, USA
Ruth Hunter
Queens University Belfast, Northern Ireland
Alejandra Jauregui
Mexican National Institute of Public Health, Mexico
Piyawat Katewongsa
Mahidol University, Thailand
Tracy Kolbe-Alexander
University of Southern Queensland, Ipswich, Australia
Harriet Koorts
Deakin University, Australia
Eun-Young Lee
Queen’s University, Canada
Jacqueline L. Mair
Singapore-ETH Centre, Singapore
Gregore Mielke
The University of Queensland, Australia
Josef Mitáš
Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic
Rowena Naidoo
University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Adewale L. Oyeyemi
Arizona State University, USA, and Redeemer’s University, Nigeria
Andrea Ramírez Varela
UTHealth Science Center at Houston, USA
Luiza Ricardo
University of Cambridge, UK
Deborah Salvo
The University of Texas at Austin, USA
Miguel Adriano Sanchez-Lastra
University of Vigo, Spain, and Galicia-Sur Health Research Institute, Spain
Katja Siefken
MSH Medical School Hamburg, Germany
Jakob Tarp
Aarhus University, Denmark
Rafael Tassitano
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Anne Tiedemann
University of Sydney, Australia
Esther van Sluijs
University of Cambridge, UK
Editorial Board
Nicolas Aguilar-Farias, Universidad de La Frontera, Chile
Matthew Ahmadi, University of Sydney, Australia
Hazzaa M. Al-Hazzaa, Lifestyle and Health Research Center, Saudi Arabia, and Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University, Saudi Arabia
Noara Alhusseini, Alfaisal University, Saudi Arabia
David R. Bassett, Jr., University of Tennessee, USA
Ryan D. Burns, University of Utah, USA
Seb Chastin, Glasgow Caledonian University, UK, and Ghent University, Belgium
Pieter Coenen, Amsterdam UMC, The Netherlands
Emily Cox, University of Newcastle, Australia
Mitch J. Duncan, University of Newcastle, Australia
Ulf Ekelund, Norwegian School of Sports Sciences, Norway, and Norwegian Public Health Institute, Norway
Kelly R. Evenson, University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill, USA
Stuart J. Fairclough, Edge Hill University, UK
Vahid Farrahi, University of Oulu, Finland, and TU Dortmund University, Germany
Guy Faulkner, University of British Columbia, Canada
Klaus Gebel, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Shifalika Goenka, Public Health Foundation of India, India
Lucy D. Gunn, RMIT University, Australia
Karen Heath, PhD, Durban, South Africa
Adriano Akira Hino, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, Brazil
Justin Jeon, Yonsei University, South Korea
Masamitsu Kamada, University of Tokyo, Japan
Pazit Levinger, National Ageing Research Institute, Australia
Fiona Chun Man Ling, Northumbria University, UK
David Lubans, University of Newcastle, Australia, and University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Jay Maddock, Texas A&M University, USA, and Houston Methodist Research Institute, USA
Scherezade K. Mama, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA
Lisa Micklesfield, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
Falk Müller-Riemenschneider, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Johan Ng, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Kwok Ng, University of Turku, Finland; University of Limerick, Ireland; and University of Eastern Finland, Finland
Faatihah Niyi-Odumosu, University of the West of England, UK
Angélica Ochoa Avilés, Universidad de Cuenca, Ecuador
Anthony Okely, University of Wollongong, Australia
Jenna Panter, University of Cambridge, UK
Lilian G. Perez, RAND Corporation, USA
Ronald Plotnikoff, University of Newcastle, Australia
Michael Pratt, University of California San Diego, USA
António Prista, Universidade Pedagógica de Maputo, Mozambique
Anne Kerstin Reimers, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
Rodrigo Reis, Washington University in St. Louis, USA
Jennifer D. Roberts, University of Maryland, USA
Dori Rosenberg, Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, USA
Jasper Schipperijn, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Brendon Stubbs, Kings College London, UK
Sylvia Titze, University of Graz, Austria
Simone Tomaz, University of Stirling, UK
Alexandra Valencia-Peris, University of Valencia, Spain
Anne Vuillemin, Université Côte d’Azur, France
Lucy-Joy M. Wachira, Kenyatta University, Kenya
Statistics & Methodologies Advisory Board
Avinash Chandran, Datalys Center for Sports Injury Research and Prevention, USA
Kar Hau Chong, University of Wollongong, Australia
Philip J. Clare, University of Sydney, Australia
Anne Grunseit, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Asaduzzaman Khan, University of Queensland, Australia
Yuta Nemoto, Tokyo Medical University, Japan, and University of Queensland, Australia
Kat Owen, University of Sydney, Australia
Masataka Taguri, Tokyo Medical University, Japan
Social Media Manager
Karen Heath, PhD, Durban, South Africa
Social Media Coordinators
Jaime Barratt, Brock University, Canada
Juliana Souza de Oliveira, University of Sydney, Australia
Human Kinetics Staff
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