In today’s episode, Dr Marjorie O’Neill sits down with Associate Professor Simon Rosenbaum from the School of Psychiatry at UNSW and an honorary fellow at the Black Dog Institute. Today’s interview explores Simon’s research where exercise and mental health meet and how physical activity can help address our mental health crisis and how we need to shift the focus away exercise and body image to one of health care management.

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Simon has worked with a variety of groups including youth, veterans, emergency service workers and refugees. Simon has published >180 peer-reviewed publications including a textbook and a Lancet Commission. He serves as an elected national director of Exercise and Sports Science Australia, the President-Elect of the Australasian Society for Traumatic Stress Studies and co-chair of the Olympic Refuge Foundation’s think tank on sport and humanitarian settings. Simon has led international research and capacity building projects, including working in the Rohingya refugee crises in Bangladesh. In 2019, Simon was recognised by the Clarivate Highly Cited list for mental health, awarded to the top 1% of researchers in a given field worldwide. You can follow Simon’s work here: https://research.unsw.edu.au/people/associate-professor-simon-rosenbaum

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