A/Prof Freddy Sitas is the Chief Operations Officer at International Centre for Future Health Systems, Operationally responsible for centre set-up, developing and implementing operational plans, development of terms of reference, Multi Institutional Agreements, research strategy and capacity development, and reporting.  He is also Adjunct Associate Professor at the School of Population Health, UNSW Sydney.

He has made a significant contribution in the design and implementation of policy relevant population and clinical infrastructure studies on chronic disease prevention. He has worked extensively with cancer, mortality statistics and other large health related datasets. He has led several collaborations and consortia and has published extensively quantifying the effects of environmental and lifestyle factors such as smoking, BMI, alcohol and infection on cancer and premature mortality, and received the Oettlè Memorial Medal for his work in 2014. His current interests include how the primary care sector can become more involved in prevention of chronic disease, quantifying the benefits of smoking cessation after hospitalisation, and quantifying the effects of smoking on infectious respiratory disease, and quantifying / identifying (cancer) risks in relation to e-cigarette use. Invited assessor of the Cancer Surveillance Branch at International Agency for Research on Cancer, Nuffield Cancer Epidemiology Unit, University of Oxford. Operationally responsible for centre set-up, operational plans, development of terms of reference, multi-institutional research agreements, research strategy and capacity development, and reporting.  

Membership of external committees

Clinical Oncology Society of Australia Working Groups: 1) Smoking cessation after cancer 2) E-cigarettes and cancer. Review of current evidence. 

Editor-in-Chief: Cancer Epidemiology, Elsevier Press I.F. 3.0. 

Board member of Infection and Cancer Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand.