Rate My Professor Freddy Sitas

Associate Professor Freddy Sitas is the Chief Operations Officer at the International Centre for Future Health Systems at the University of New South Wales. He holds a BSc and an MSc (Med) from the University of the Witwatersrand, an MSc in Epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and a D.Phil in Epidemiology from the University of Oxford. His academic appointments include Adjunct Associate Professor at the School of Population Health at UNSW Sydney, Associate Professor at the School of Public Health at the University of Sydney, and Honorary Associate Professor at the Menzies Centre for Health Policy at the University of Sydney.

Sitas has contributed to the design and implementation of population and clinical infrastructure studies on chronic disease prevention, working extensively with cancer, mortality statistics, and large health datasets. He has led collaborations quantifying the effects of smoking, BMI, alcohol, and infections on cancer and premature mortality. He received the George Oettlè Award for contribution to cancer research in 2013 and the Australasian Epidemiology Association Lifetime Achievement Award in 2024, along with fellowship in the Australasian Epidemiology Association. Sitas serves as Editor in Chief of Cancer Epidemiology and has interests in primary care involvement in chronic disease prevention, benefits of smoking cessation after hospitalisation, effects of smoking on infectious respiratory disease, and risks related to e-cigarette use.