Neville Owen, Ph.D.

Neville is Professor of Health Behaviour in the School of Population Health and Director of the Cancer Prevention Research Centre at The University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. He was previously at Deakin University, as Foundation Professor of Human Movement Science, Head of the School of Human Movement and Director of Research for the Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences. His research addresses the primary prevention of cancer, diabetes and heart disease, and is focussed on the environmental and social determinants of behavioural risk factors (particularly physical activity). It covers building links of behavioural research to basic epidemiology; behavioural measurement; determinants studies, theoretical models; and, the development and evaluation of population-health interventions. He was recently awarded (with Adrian Bauman and Wendy Brown) a Program Grant and a Capacity Building Grant in Population Health from the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia, on “Understanding and influencing physical activity to improve population health outcomes”. He is the co-author, with James Sallis, of Physical Activity and Behavioral Medicine (Sage, 1999), which has also been published in a Japanese-language edition.