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Board Structure
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ISPAH is led by an executive committee and board of governors:
Executive Committee
President Harold W. Kohl, III (Bill), University of Texas at Austin
Dr. Kohl is a Professor of Epidemiology and Kinesiology at the University of Texas School of Public Health, Austin Regional Campus and the University of Texas Austin. Before this appointment, he served as Lead Epidemiologist and Team Leader in the Physical Activity and Health Branch of the Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. He has worked since 1984 in the area of physical activity and health, including conducting research, developing and evaluating intervention programs for adults and children, and developing and advising on policy issues. Dr. Kohl’s other areas of specialization are biostatistics and health promotion. His research interests include the current focus on physical activity, exercise, fitness, and health as well as sports medicine surveillance systems for musculoskeletal injuries. In his recent efforts, he has concentrated on national and international physical activity surveillance and epidemiology issues as well as program development and evaluation studies for the promotion of school-based physical activity for children and adolescents. He has served as an elected Trustee and is a Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine and a Fellow in the American Academy of Kinesiology and Physical Education. He is the founding president of the International Society for Physical Activity and Health. He has served in an editorial capacity for several scientific journals and is currently co-editor of the Journal of Physical Activity and Health. He has published more than 130 papers, chapters, and monographs in the scientific literature.
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Adrian Bauman
Dr. Bauman is the Sesquicentenary Professor of Public Health, University of Sydney, Australia. He directs the Centre for Physical Activity, Nutrition and Obesity Research. His research focuses on physical activity interventions, population PA measurement and surveillance. He holds research grants in physical activity, obesity prevention, and social disadvantage and health. He has special interests in health promotion program evaluation, especially in the design and evaluation of social marketing and mass media health-related campaigns to promote physical activity. His international research and policy work includes global physical activity and obesity surveillance, and he coordinates the Asia Pacific Physical Activity Network, and was expert adviser to the World Health Organization for the development of the Global Strategy on Diet, Physical Activity and Health 2002-2004.
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Willem van Mechelen, MD, PhD
Dr. Mechelen is employed by the VU University Medical Centre in Amsterdam as a full professor of Occupational and Sports Medicine. In this capacity he is the head of the Department of Public and Occupational Health (80 fte), codirector of the EMGO Institute (200 fte), vice-dean of the Netherlands School of Public and Occupational Health, and director of Research Centre Body@Work TNO VUmc. He leads a group of about 40 people who conduct primary care research in the area of work, physical activity, sport, and health. Willem van Mechelen is a board-certified occupational physician, epidemiologist, and human movement scientist.
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Sandra Matsudo, MD, PhD
Dr. Matsudo is the General Director of the Physical Fitness Research Center in São Caetano do Sul-CELAFISCS, Scientific Advisor of the Agita São Paulo Program, and full Professor in the College of Physical Education of FMU University in São Paulo, Brazil. Dr Matsudo was honored with an International Award of Sports Medicine in the Olympic Games in Barcelona 1992 and the Prince Faizal International Award of the International Federation of Physical Education (FIEP) in 1996. She is a physician and finished her PhD in Sports Medicine at the federal University of São Paulo. Her research interests lie in the fields of aging and physical activity and physical activity promotion. She has authored four books in Spanish and Portuguese as well as almost 100 publications in sport sciences. She is the executive editor of the Brazilian Journal of Science and Movement and an editorial member of journals of physical education in Brazil and Latin America. Dr Matsudo is the Chair of the Longitudinal project on Physical Fitness and Aging in São Caetano do Sul and has an active role in the Physical Activity International Networks: Rafa-Pana and Agita Mundo.
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Board of Directors
Lars Bo Anderson, PhD
Dr. Anderson is a Professor at the University of Southern Denmark Institute of Sports Science and Clinical Biomechanics. His main interest has been the role of physical activity in health, especially in children. He has studied relationships between metabolic disorders, physical activity, and diet as well as physical activity as a predictor of all causes of mortality and specific diseases in adults.
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Wendy Brown, PhD
Dr. Brown is a professor of physical activity and health in the School of Human Movement Studies at the University of Queensland. Her principal research interests are in the links between physical activity, weight gain, and public health; the promotion of physical activity and healthy weight; and the measurement of population levels of physical activity.
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Fiona Bull, PhD
Professor Fiona Bull has a broad set of interests including measurement and surveillance, intervention evaluation, understanding determinants and the development of national policy on physical activity. Her work extends across both developed and developing countries and she has extensive national and international research collaborations and ongoing work with the World Health Organization.
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Shigeru Inoue, PhD
Dr. Inoue is an assistant professor at the department of preventive medicine and public health at Tokyo Medical University. He is also a physician and a physical activity epidemiologist.
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William E. Kraus, MD
Dr. Kraus is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Professor, School of Nursing, Assistant Professor of cell biology, and director of clinical research at the Duke Center for Living, all at Duke University. He obtained his MD from Duke University in 1983. One goal of his research work is to understand the cellular signaling mechanisms underlying the normal adaptive responses of skeletal muscle to physiologic stimuli, such as what occur in exercise conditioning, and to understand the abnormal maladaptive responses that occur in response to pathophysiologic stimuli, such as what occur in congestive heart failure, aging, and prolonged exposure to microgravity. Dr. Kraus is director of clinical research at the Duke Center for Living, a multidisciplinary treatment and research facility dedicated to the primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease. He also serves as medical director of the Duke Cardiac Rehabilitation Program. Dr. Kraus is a fellow of the American Heart Association, American College of Cardiology, and the American College of Sports Medicine. He is Chair of the Physical Activity Committee of the Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Metabolism Council of the American Heart Association.
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Jasem Ramadan, PhD
Dr. Ramadan has been an Associate Professor in the faculty of medicine at Kuwait University since 1984. As director of the physical activity (PA) and exercise physiology unit in the department of physiology, he is helping to develop a center for PA surveillance in Kuwait as well as the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries with the collaboration of the World Health Organization (WHO). He is also the coordinator of Kuwait National Physical Activity Committee. He is an elected member of the Asian Athletic Confederation Medical Committee.
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Olga L. Sarmiento, MD, PhD
Dr. Sarmiento is an assistant professor of the department of social medicine at the School of Medicine at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia. She holds an MD from the Universidad Javeriana at Bogotá, an MPH and a PhD from the department of epidemiology at the School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research interests include physical activity and built environment among the populations of children and adults in Latin America.
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Regional Representatives
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