Associate Professor Freddy Sitas

A/Prof Freddy Sitas is a Director at the Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity, UNSW.  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 consortiums 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. He is Adjunct Professor at the School of Population Health, UNSW Sydney, Associate Professor, School of Public Health, University of Sydney and Honorary Associate Professor at the Menzies Centre for Health Policy, University of Sydney. 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 risks in relation to e-cigarette use. 

Membership of external / internal committees

Clinical Oncology Society of Australia Working Group: Stewart B, Sitas F. (eds) E-cigarettes and cancer. Review of current evidence. 

Editor in Chief: Cancer Epidemiology, Elsevier Press

Internal

Member, Sydney Local Health District HERDU Management Committee

Member, South Western Sydney Local Health District Population Health and CHETRE management committee

Member, Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity Advisory Group 

Member: Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity Steering Group 

Member, UNSW Centre and Institute Managers' meeting 

Member, UNSW Medicine and Health Research Committee