Julie Redfern is a Professor of Public Health based in the Westmead Applied Research Centre at the University of Sydney in Australia. She is also a practicing physiotherapist, holds a NHMRC Career Development Fellowship, co-Chair of the Exercise, Prevention and Rehabilitation Council of the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand and an Executive Committee member of the ANZ Health Services Research Association. She has been awarded over $100 million in peer reviewed grants and published over 160 peer reviewed manuscripts in high ranking journals.