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Rachel is currently Professor of Health Research with over 20 years of research experience in areas related to physical activity for the prevention of non-communicable diseases. Rachel has extensive experience of conducting large-scale trials in both clinical and community settings in the area of physical activity, health and disease prevention. More recently, Rachel has focused on the use and development of ecological models that emphasize multiple levels of influence on health behaviours. She has designed and led large-scale community interventions that have resulted in sustained behaviour change and improved health. Rachel has also led pioneering research that takes an ecological approach to sustaining and improving health, such as the United Kingdom Medical Research Council funded project "An ecological approach to promoting health-enhancing physical activity in a deprived inner-city population" that involved detailed mapping of the environment and evaluation of the relationship between environment, physical activity and health and health outcomes. Her research takes an integrated urban ecosystem approach to evaluating the influences of the built, natural and social environments on health behaviours, health and health outcomes. Rachel currently collaborates with the international team of researchers in the 12 country IPEN study that aims to pool data from over 14000 participants across the globe to better our understanding of environmental correlates of physical activity and obesity. Empirical findings from this trans-national research on these complex interactions will help inform policy and practice for future urban design http://www.ipenproject.org/IPEN_adult.html
Research Interests
Rachel's research interests focus on policy-relevant research in areas related to physical activity for health and wellbeing and on the design, delivery and evaluation of complex public health interventions. Rachel is currently undertaking research across a number of areas, including:
- Exploring the inter-relationship between individuals and neighbourhoods in social, cultural and physical (built and natural) environments and their impact on health and health outcomes
- Primary and secondary prevention programs for cardiovascular disease
- Population base modeling of changes in risk factors for chronic disease and potential cost savings
- Evaluation of primary healthcare provision in the aged care sector
- Physical activity in school children
- Indigenous tobacco control
- Knowledge translation networks
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Supporting mental health through building resilience during and after bushfires: lessons from the 2019-20 bushfires in southern NSW and the ACT
Schirmer, J., Buergelt, P., Paton, D., Niyonsenga, T., Peel, D., Mylek, M., Davey, R. & Benham, C.
1/06/20 → 31/05/23
Project: Research
Individual-level predictive models for management of postoperative pain
Davey, R. & Hernandez-Boussard, T.
1/11/19 → 31/10/22
Project: Other
Integrating Pharmacists in Residential Aged Care Facilities to improve the quality use of medicines
Kosari, S., Naunton, M. & Davey, R.
1/08/19 → 31/12/21
Project: Research
Environmental and social determinants of health in the Australian Capital Territory: program interventions aimed at reducing the burden of disease and avoidable hospital admissions.
Davey, R., Daniel, M., Cargo, M., Niyonsenga, T., Coffee, N., Freene, N., Kosari, S. & Carroll, S.
5/04/19 → 30/04/23
Project: Other
Evaluation of a bush medicine-based treatment for scabies in Australian Aboriginal children
Thomas, J., Calma, T., Daniel, M., Engleman, D., Peterson, G., Walton, S. F., Kosari, S., Naunton, M. & Davey, R.
1/04/19 → 31/10/22
Project: Other
Research Output
Comparison of device-based physical activity and sedentary behaviour following percutaneous coronary intervention in a cohort from Sweden and Australia: A harmonised, exploratory study
Freene, N., Borg, S., McManus, M., Mair, T., Tan, R., Davey, R., Öberg, B. & Bäck, M., 9 May 2020, In : BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation. 12, 1, p. 1-8 8 p., 17.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Do physical activity and sedentary time mediate the association of the perceived environment with BMI? The IPEN adult study
Van Dyck, D., Cerin, E., Akram, M., Conway, T. L., Macfarlane, D., Davey, R., Sarmiento, O. L., Christiansen, L. B., Reis, R., Mitas, J., Aguinaga-Ontoso, I., Salvo, D. & Sallis, J. F., Jul 2020, In : Health and Place. 64, p. 1-10 10 p., 102366.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
"Everything is provided free, but they are still hesitant to access healthcare services": why does the indigenous community in Attapadi, Kerala continue to experience poor access to healthcare?
George, M. S., Davey, R., Mohanty, I. & Upton, P., 26 Jun 2020, In : International Journal for Equity in Health. 19, 1, p. 1-15 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Validity of the Past-day Adults' Sedentary Time Questionnaire in a Cardiac Rehabilitation Population
Freene, N., McManus, M., Mair, T., Tan, R., Clark, B. & Davey, R., 15 Jan 2020, In : Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation and Prevention. p. 1-5 5 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article
A closer look at the relationship among accelerometer-based physical activity metrics: ICAD pooled data
Kwon, S., Andersen, L. B., Grøntved, A., Kolle, E., Cardon, G., Davey, R., Kriemler, S., Northstone, K., Page, A. S., Puder, J. J., Reilly, J. J., Sardinha, L. B., Van Sluijs, E. M. F. & Janz, K. F., 29 Apr 2019, In : International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity. 16, 1, p. 1-9 9 p., 40.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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