Rate My Professor Anna Murrell

Anna Murrell serves as a Senior Lecturer in the School of Rural Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health, at the University of New England in Armidale, New South Wales, Australia. Her scholarly contributions span exercise physiology and parasitology. In exercise physiology, Murrell has focused on the impacts of various training modalities on lipid metabolism and related health markers. She co-authored the systematic review and meta-analysis 'HIIT is not superior to MICT in altering blood lipids,' published in BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine in 2019, which analyzed randomized controlled trials to compare high-intensity interval training and moderate-intensity continuous training effects on blood lipids. Building on this, her 2022 publication in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, 'Determining the effect size of aerobic exercise training on the standard lipid profile in sedentary adults with three or more metabolic syndrome factors: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials,' established positive changes in lipid profiles from aerobic exercise. A 2023 multivariate meta-analysis, 'Estimating the Effect of Aerobic Exercise Training on Novel Lipid Biomarkers: A Systematic Review and Multivariate Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials,' further quantified these effects on novel biomarkers. Recent works include 'Effect of Exercise Training on Apolipoproteins: Meta-analysis and Trial Sequence Analysis' in 2025 and a systematic review on resistance training benefits, mechanisms, and safety in heart failure patients in 2024.

Prior research by Murrell centered on tick systematics and evolution during her time at the University of Queensland's Department of Microbiology and Parasitology. Key papers include 'Phylogenetic Analyses of the Rhipicephaline Ticks Indicate That the Genus Rhipicephalus Is Paraphyletic' in 2000, 'Systematics and evolution of ticks with list of valid genus and species names' in 2004, and 'Relationships among the three major lineages of the Acari' in 2005. She has authored or co-authored 29 publications, accumulating 1,942 citations on ResearchGate. Murrell holds ORCID iD 0000-0002-3841-2305 and UNE identifier amurrel2. She coordinates units such as Anna Murrell's Sandpit on the UNE learning platform.