Biography
Pedro Hallal is a Professor at the University of Illinois - Champaign/Urbana. Prof. Hallal served as the President of the Federal University of Pelotas, Brazil from 2017 to 2020. His primary area of research is physical activity and public health. Prof. Hallal has published more than 500 scientific articles and his research has been funded by Brazilian and international agencies. According to Google Scholar, Prof. Hallal's work has been cited >74,000 times, and my h-index is 107. Prof. Hallal was the leader of the 2012 Lancet Physical Activity Series and steering committee member of the 2016 and 2021 series – work that informs the global health burden of physical inactivity. He is one of the founders and former president of the Brazilian Society of Physical Activity and Health. He serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Physical Activity and Health. More recently, Prof. Hallal served as the Principal Investigator for the EPICOVID19 project, the largest epidemiological study on Covid-19 in Brazil.
Additional Campus Affiliations
Alvin M. & Ruth L. Sandall Professor, Kinesiology and Community Health
Professor, Kinesiology and Community Health
Director, MPH Program, Kinesiology and Community Health
Professor, Lemann Center for Brazilian Studies
Recent Publications
Cathro, A., Felix, D. M., Leão, O. A. D. A., Lopez, S., Lu, Z., Machado, P. G., Morales, D., Neto, F. T. D. P., Selzer, A., Tang, A., Tassitano, R. M., Tenório, M. C. M., Zhang, K., Zhao, W., & Hallal, P. C. (2024). The Legacy of an All-Around Physical Activity and Health Scientist: Harold W. (Bill) Kohl III. Journal of Physical Activity and Health, 21(4), 309-310. https://doi.org/10.1123/jpah.2024-0150
Flores, T. R., de Andrade Leão, O. A., Nunes, B. P., Mielke, G. I., dos Santos Costa, C., Buffarini, R., Domingues, M. R., da Silveira, M. F., Hallal, P. C., & Bertoldi, A. D. (2024). Prepregnancy maternal BMI and trajectories of BMI-for-age in children up to four years of age: findings from the 2015 Pelotas (Brazil) birth cohort. International Journal of Obesity, 48(3), 353-359. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41366-023-01422-1
Santos, I. S., Echevarria, P., Tovo-Rodrigues, L., Matijasevich, A., Domingues, M. R., & Hallal, P. C. (2024). Are nocturnal awakenings at age 1 predictive of sleep duration and efficiency at age 6: Results from two birth cohorts. Sleep Medicine: X, 7, Article 100105. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sleepx.2024.100105
Wendt, A., Knuth, A. G., Nunes, B. P., de Azevedo, M. R., Gonçalves, H., Hallal, P. C., & Crochemore-Silva, I. (2024). Leisure-Time Physical Activity in a Southern Brazilian City (2004–2021): Applying an Equity Lens to Time-Trend Analyses. Journal of Physical Activity and Health, 21(1), 94-102. https://doi.org/10.1123/jpah.2023-0259
Aburto, T. C., Romieu, I., Stern, M. C., Barquera, S., Corvalán, C., Hallal, P. C., Reynales-Shigematsu, L. M., Barnoya, J., Cavalcante, T. M., Canelo-Aybar, C., Santero, M., Feliu, A., Espina, C., & Rivera, J. A. (2023). Latin American and the Caribbean Code Against Cancer 1st edition: Weight, physical activity, diet, breastfeeding, and cancer. Cancer Epidemiology, 86, Article 102436. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.canep.2023.102436