PUBLIC TALK: Paediatric Exercise Science: UWA as a Global Centre of Excellence?

A lecture by Professor Gareth Stratton,a Healthway sponsored Visiting Fellow in Paediatric Exercise Science from Liverpool (UK).

This presentation will summarise Professor Stratton’s experiences in WA during his Healthway Fellowship. He will address the potential for world leading research in Paediatric Exercise Science emanating from WA, with The University of Western Australia as a hub.

His talk will be informed by his extensive experience in the development of research-driven population-based strategies to improve the health of young people in Liverpool, a European city of health inequality.

Professor Stratton is a World leading expert in paediatric health, specialising in the impacts of physical activity and exercise. He Chaired the UK government’s National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) committee responsible for the formulation of guidelines for physical activity and exercise in young people. He established and leads the largest longitudinal fitness assessment survey of children in the UK (Sportlinx n=60,000). His laboratory and applied research work around physical activity interventions has included twin studies, impacts of school playground design, active computer gaming and in schools. This work has had global impact.