Dr Chris Rissel
Senior Research Fellow
College of Medicine and Public Health
Chris Rissel has worked for many years in health promotion program development and implementation, research and evaluation, mostly in NSW but also in the USA and Germany. His work has focused on childhood and adult obesity prevention, physical activity and cycling advocacy, tobacco control and sexual health. He is interested in implementation science and research translation.
He was a co-author of the national report 'Getting Australia Moving - barriers, facilitators and interventions to get more Australians physically active through cycling'. Chris is one of the Chief Investigators of the first, second and third Australian Study of Health and Relationships (AHSR) funded by the NHMRC, looking at changes in sexual health and behaviour in Australia.
Ph.D (Behavioural Epidemiology), University of Minnesota (USA), 1994
Master of Public Health (Health promotion),University of Sydney, 1990
Bachelor of Science with Honours (Psychology), University of New South Wales, 1985
Honarary Professor, University of Sydney (2017)
The Australian Health Promotion Association created the annual ‘Prof Chris Rissel Award’ in 2018 for the best reviewer of manuscripts for the Health Promotion Journal of Australia.
Life Membership of the Australian Health Promotion Association, awarded at the Annual General Meeting held during Australian Health Promotion Association’s 21st National Conference, 17th June, 2013, Sydney for “distinguished, meritorious and special service as a mature leader in health promotion in Australia and for the significant contribution to the purposes and objectives of the Association”.
Cycling Achievement Award of the Year – Professional Category – From the Cycling Promotion Fund for contributions in advancing cycling in the health sector – 2005.
Medibank Private / J Ashburton Thompson Public Health Award, 1998, Public Health Association of Australia
Lester Breslow Award for Academic Excellence in Health Promotion, 1994, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, USA
Cottee's Prize for Public Health Nutrition, 1988, School of Public Health, Sydney University, Australia
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