DrKlaus Gebel

Dr Klaus Gebel is a Senior Lecturer and former Master of Public Health Course Director in the School of Public Health of the University of Technology Sydney. He has master degrees in exercise science from the German Sport University Cologne and Victoria University, Melbourne, where he first specialised on exercise for rehabilitation and then on physical activity and public health. He did his PhD at the School of Public Health of the University of Sydney under the supervision of Professors Adrian Bauman and Neville Owen. Klaus has studied and worked at seven universities in three countries, has given conference presentations and invited guest lectures on six continents, and has received multiple grants, scholarships and awards. His most recent award was in 2025 from the UTS School of Public Health for teaching excellence.

As an epidemiologist, in his research he mainly focuses on the relationship between urban design, physical activity, active transport and health. Through the media (including London Times, New York Times, Japan Times, Forbes, Playboy) his publications have reached more than one billion people. He was also invited to present the findings from his paper in JAMA Internal Medicine on physical activity and mortality in a TEDx talk.

Klaus also co-edited a book entitled Walking - Connecting Sustainable Transport with Health, which brought together experts from urban planning, sustainability, transportation and public health. He is a co-author of three papers in a special series on Urban Design, Transport and Health analysing data from 25 cities, in 19 countries on 6 continents that was published in The Lancet Global Health. Klaus co-authored the world's first systematic review of the prevalence of loneliness as a public health problem which was published in the British Medical Journal. He was the lead author of an editorial on ending sexism in the scheduling of sports events which was published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine. Klaus also co-authored a commentary with an agenda for physical activity research in The Lancet. Recently, Klaus finished co-editing The Routledge Handbook of Physical Activity and Health.

• Representative of the Faculty of Health in the SDG Working Group of the University of Technology Sydney
• Member of the International Society for Physical Activity and Health
• Member of the Australasian Epidemiological Association
• Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Physical Activity & Health
• Member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity
• Peer reviewer for more than 70 academic journals, book chapters from Cambridge University Press, grant applications for the National Health and Medical Research Council and other Australian and international funding agencies and abstracts for multiple conferences