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Professor Tracy Kolbe-Alexander

Professor Tracy Kolbe-Alexander
Name Tracy Kolbe-Alexander
Position Professor (Sport and Exercise)
Section School of Health and Medical Sciences
Office P-206
Location Ipswich Campus
Phone +61 7 3812 6178
Extension 6178
Email
Qualifications BAPhysEd Western Cape , BScMed(Hons) Cape Town , MPubHlth Cape Town , PhD Cape Town

Biography

Prof Tracy Kolbe-Alexander is the Program Director for Public Health in the School of Health and Medical Science at the University of Southern Queensland (UniSQ), part of the UniSQ Centre for Health Research, The Manna Institute and an Honorary Professor at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Tracy’s research explores the role of the social, built and natural environments in promoting and supporting health and wellbeing. Her research examines the health seeking behaviours of people including those with low socio-economic status, and in regional and remote areas, and the Global South. Using various strategies and methodologies, including participatory community-based and systems science approaches, she has developed, implemented and evaluated health promotion programs in different settings (community, schools, and workplaces). These programs are being implemented in both South Africa and Australia. Tracy serves on Australian and international committees, with the aim of promoting physical activity to improve health and well-being. She was one of the founding members of the African Physical Activity Network, and currently serves on the International Society of Physical Activity and Health’s (ISPAH) Capacity Building Committee and the ASPA Advocacy Committee. She is a Senior Associate Editor for the Journal of Physical Activity and Health and on the Editorial Board for the Journal of Activity, Sedentary and Sleep Behaviours.

Research Career


  • Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified ( 111799 )
  • Human Movement and Sports Science not elsewhere classified ( 110699 )
  • Public Health not elsewhere classified ( 420699 )
  • Sports Science And Exercise not elsewhere classified ( 420799 )
  • Public Health ( 420600 )
  • Sports Science And Exercise ( 420700 )

Community-based participatory approach to health and wellbeing
Systems-based research
Healthy places and spaces
Workplace health promotion


Asia-Pacific Society for Physical Activity (ASPA)
International Society of Physical Activity and Health (ISPAH)
International Society of Behavioural Nutrition and Physical Activity (ISBNPA)
Exercise and Sports Science Australia (ESSA)


Accredited Exercise Physiologist with ESSA


  • Institute for Resilient Regions (IRR)
  • Centre for Health Research (CHR)

Teaching


PUH8010: Integrated Public Health Core A
PUH8030: Public Health in Practice A
PUH8070
PUH8080


20 Years


Associate Head of School - Research
Discipline Lead: Public Health

Supervision


  • Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified ( 111799 )
  • Human Movement and Sports Science not elsewhere classified ( 110699 )
  • Public Health not elsewhere classified ( 420699 )
  • Sports Science And Exercise not elsewhere classified ( 420799 )
  • Public Health ( 420600 )
  • Sports Science And Exercise ( 420700 )