Andrea Petroczi
PROFESSOR OF PUBLIC HEALTH
Kingston University London, United Kingdom
weight-loss drugs, medicine, doping, anti-doping, elite sport
Andrea Petróczi is a Professor of Public Health at Kingston University London. Andrea’s research is centred on behavioural choices with public health implications, where short term gains are traded off for potential health consequences later in life; and method development. With a strong commitment to multidisciplinary research spanning across disciplines allied to medicine and psychology, her research explores the various forms of human enhancements (performance, appearance and experience), reasons that justifies and the mental representations of such practices in the broader context of human enhancement. Andrea is an internationally recognised expert in social science doping and anti-doping research. She provides consultancy to the World Anti-Doping Agency, serves as an advisor for the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission in the UK and as a member for the Editorial Boards of Psychology of Sport and Exercise (Elsevier); and Substance Abuse, Treatment, Prevention and Policy (BMC). Her research has attracted funding from the European Union, World-Anti Doping Agency, The International Olympic Committee, the National Prevention Research Initiative/Medical Research Council, The British Academy and the European Council. Recently, in collaboration with Prof. Paul Norman, she contributed to the World Anti-Doping Agency’s preventive online educational tool (Athlete Learning Program about Health & Anti-Doping, ALPHA).