Professor Michael Rosenberg
Research Profile
Michael is a health promotion researcher with a focus on program evaluation, physical activity and young people. He spends his time trying to influence people to make healthier choices and enjoy the positive benefits that a healthy lifestyle can afford.
Much of his attention has been focused on measurement, monitoring and intervention at the population level amongst children, adults and disadvantaged populations in places where they work, live and play. Over the last several years, he has focussed on using technology to bring personal and population health closer together.
Most of Michael’s time is now spent with engineers, computer scientists and physicists discussing how the power of modern mobile and sensor devices that continuously measure a range of health-related behaviours can be used to promote better health choices for individuals in real time and inform government and policy makers on where best to invest public resources for better health outcomes.
Michael’s research projects include the development of a health rating scale for active video games, the use of computer vision in assessing children's fundamental movement skills, the use of a tailored music-based mobile phone application to improve motor control, the development of an RFID sensor system to measure children's indoor sedentary time and the translation of all this technology into several school and community-based programs to improve the health of children.