Prof. John J. Reilly, PhD

He joined the University in 2011 as John Anderson Research Leader and Professor of Physical Activity & Public Health Science.  He was formerly Professor of Paediatric Energy Metabolism at the University of Glasgow. His research work focuses on: interventions for the prevention of child and adolescent obesity worldwide; the consequences of obesity and low physical activity in children and adolescents globally; the development and consequences of sedentary behaviour during childhood and adolescence globally; global monitoring of physical activity and sedentary behaviour in children and adolescents.

 He is involved in a range of national and international Knowledge Exchange projects. Recent KE projects include

• leading the ‘Active Healthy Kids Scotland Report Card’ (www.activehealthykidsscotland.co.uk),

• international executive committee of the Active Healthy Kids Global Alliance (www.activehealthykids.org)

• membership of the Science and Evidence Group for the WHO Commission on Ending Childhood Obesity (ECHO)  https://www.who.int/end-childhood-obesity/en/

• membership of the WHO Guideline Development Group on Physical Activity, Sedentary Behaviour, and Sleep for the under 5’s https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/311664

• chair of the UK Health Departments physical activity guidelines update for the Under 5’s https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/physical-activity-guidelines

  He has over 340 peer-reviewed papers with an h index 102 (Google Scholar), and total citations of 45.899.