Associate Professor Freddy Sitas

A/Prof Freddy Sitas is the Chief Operations Officer at International Centre for Future Health Systems, UNSW.  He has made a significant contribution in the design and implementation of policy relevant population and clinical infrastructure studies on chronic disease prevention. He has worked extensively with cancer, mortality statistics and other large health related datasets. He has led several collaborations and consortiums and has published extensively quantifying the effects of environmental and lifestyle factors such as smoking, BMI, alcohol and infection on cancer and premature mortality, and received the Oettlè Memorial Medal for his work in 2014. He is Adjunct Professor at the School of Population Health, UNSW Sydney, Associate Professor, School of Public Health, University of Sydney and Honorary Associate Professor at the Menzies Centre for Health Policy, University of Sydney. His current interests include how the primary care sector can become more involved in prevention of chronic disease, quantifying the benefits of smoking cessation after hospitalisation, and quantifying the effects of smoking on infectious respiratory disease, and quantifying / identifying risks in relation to e-cigarette use. 

Membership of external committees

Clinical Oncology Society of Australia Working Group: Stewart B, Sitas F. (eds) E-cigarettes and cancer. Review of current evidence. 

Editor in Chief: Cancer Epidemiology, Elsevier Press