2009
Excellence in Commissioning for partnership with NHS Rotherham

NHS Health and Social Care Awards

NIHR Review Board

Centre for Social Justice Advisor

Trustee of the Charity – Obesity UK

Whole systems approaches to obesity and other complex public health challenges: a systematic review

Weight stigma and discrimination: a call to the media

Why consistent completion criterion are required in childhood weight management programmes

Cardiac autonomic regulation as a predictor for childhood obesity intervention success

Design programmes to maximise participant engagement: a predictive study of programme and participant characteristics associated with engagement in paediatric weight management

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Professor Paul Gately is Carnegie Professor of Exercise and Obesity and Co-Director of the Applied Centre for Obesity Research at Leeds Beckett University. His main research interest is in childhood obesity - and the treatment strategies for obesity across all age ranges. His PhD evaluated an American residential weight loss camp as an intervention for the treatment of overweight and obese children. Paul has contributed to the International Obesity Task Force/World Health Organisation’s report on childhood obesity and has been a national spokesperson for the Change4Life Campaign, a UK Department of Health programme.

Paul also runs MoreLife, a subsidiary of the University, which delivers specialist, residential, community and online weight loss programmes. He has worked on many change programmes and with marketing and public education initiatives - including work with Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Disney and Danone. He was the Principal Investigator of Public Health England’s Whole System Approach to Obesity which is now a nationally recognised programme. He has delivered more than 500 keynote presentations and scientific publications and co-authored seven book chapters.

Eating Disorders

Exercise

Treatment of Obesity

Childhood Obesity

Weight Loss

Diet

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Carnegie Professor of Exercise and Obesity and Co-Director of the Applied Centre for Obesity Research

Professor Paul Gately has dedicated more than two decades of work to reshaping attitudes to one of the biggest health crises of our time: obesity.

Professor Paul Gately on obesity

Professor Paul Gately and Senior Lecturer Claire Griffiths explain how their recent research challenges current beliefs concerning childhood obesity. For more information please visit http://www.leedsmet.ac.uk

Childhood Obesity Research

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