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Mara Airoldi, PhD
Academic director of the Government Outcomes Lab at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford
Mara is the inaugural academic director of the Government Outcomes Lab at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford. She has two decades’ experience in connecting academic insights to decision making for social impact. She has provided input for decisions on Outcome funds and Outcomes Contracts in the UK, the EU, foundations, and international development agencies. In her previous posts she has worked with health policy makers and healthcare providers in several countries.
Mara is an experienced decision modeller with an interest in impact metrics and the use of data to inform better decisions. She is particularly passionate about the ways in which governments can work with the private and non-for-profit sector to accelerate progress towards shared goals.
She is an economist (welfare economics and health economics) and a decision analyst by background with degrees from Bocconi University in Milan and the London School of Economics and Political Science.
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Paul Downward, PhD
Professor of Economics in the School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences at Loughborough University
Paul Downward is Professor of Economics in the School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences at Loughborough University. He is currently co-editing a handbook on sport in Europe, having recently edited a volume on Sports Economics and authored two books on the Economics of Sports.
Paul has over 120 peer-reviewed articles as well as book chapters. He is currently researching the determinants of sport, physical activity and volunteering, and their impacts on: Health and well-being; Social capital, social inclusion; and, Human capital and labour markets.
Paul recently completed a 6-year period as editor of European Sport management Quartely, and serves on the Boards of Sport Management Review, Journal of Global Sport Management, Journal of Sports Economics, International Journal of Sports Finance, The International Journal of Sports Policy and Politics and, The Journal of Sports Tourism.
His research has been funded by a wide range of research council, sport and policy stakeholders.
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Louise Mansfield, PhD
Professor of Sport, Health and Social Sciences, Vice Dean for Research and Director of the Centre for Health and Wellbeing across the Lifecourse at Brunel University London
Louise Mansfield is Professor of Sport, Health and Social Sciences, Vice Dean for Research and Director of the Centre for Health and Wellbeing across the Lifecourse in the College of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences at Brunel University London, UK.
She is Associate Director of the ESRC Grand Union Doctoral Training Programme; a partnership between Brunel University London, Oxford University and the Open University.
Her research focuses on the relationship between inequalities, community sport/physical activity and public health and wellbeing. She has conducted her work with diverse population groups in different contexts and has over 15 years’ experience of leading research projects and offering expert advice for international, national and local sport and public health organisations.
This includes for the Sport England Local Delivery Pilots, the ESRC Culture, Sport and Wellbeing Evidence Programme and Chiles-Webster-Batson Commission on sport in low-income communities. She has extensive expertise in coproduction and community approaches to physical activity and issues of health, wellbeing, inequality and diversity. Her work includes a focus on harnessing creative strategies in the design, delivery and evaluation of complex community interventions.
Louise is known for developing evidence to inform policy and practice.
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Tim Meyer, MD
Professor of Sports & Preventive Medicine at Saarland University
Prof. Dr. med. Tim Meyer (MD, PhD) went to medical school and, additionally, studied sport science at the universities of Hanover and Göttingen, Germany. As well as qualifying in Germany, he also qualified for medical practice in the US (USMLE exam).
Dr. Meyer started as a physician at the Institute of Sports and Preventive Medicine (Saarbrücken, Germany) in 1996, and completed his doctoral thesis in Göttingen on endurance training with panic patients in 1997.
His habilitation thesis (habilitation » "German PhD" but with more extensive publication record, teaching requirements and exams) at Saarland University concerned applications of gas exchange measurements in sport.
In February 2007 he was called as Chair for Sports Medicine at the University of Paderborn. In October 2008 he was appointed Chair of the Institute of Sports and Preventive Medicine at Saarland University. Meyer´s focus of research covers medical aspects of football, exercise physiology (focus on recovery), infections in sport and training prescription. Under his supervision, several training studies were conducted in elite and health-oriented athletes among them many soccer players (altogether over 250 publications as author or co-author in internationally referenced peer-reviewed journals).
Besides his university work, since 1999 (starting in 2001 at the men´s national team “Die Mannschaft”) Meyer works as team physician for the German
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Aaron Leigh Baggish, MD
Professor of Medicine & Sports Science, University of Lausanne
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Evert Verhagen, PhD
Professor of Public and Occupational Health, Amsterdam UMC
Evert Verhagen (1976) is a human movement scientist and epidemiologist. He is the UEFA Medical Research Advisor and holds a University Research Chair as a full professor at the Department of Public and Occupational Health of the Amsterdam UMC.
He is the Editor in Chief of BMJ Open Sports & Exercise Medicine, the director of the Amsterdam Collaboration on Health and Safety in Sports (one of the 11 IOC research centers), and director of the Amsterdam Institute of Sports Sciences (AISS).
His research revolves around the prevention of sports and physical activity related injuries; including monitoring, cost-effectiveness and implementation issues.
He supervises several (inter-)national PhDs and post-docs and has (co-) authored over 360 peer-reviewed publications around these topics.
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