Rate My Professor John Wiggers

Professor Wiggers conducts translational research in preventive medicine, behavioural science, public health, and addiction medicine, focusing on health risk behaviour and practice change interventions in community and clinical settings to prevent chronic diseases such as through addressing smoking, alcohol consumption, nutrition, and physical activity. He has authored over 200 peer-reviewed publications with more than 14,000 citations and secured over $40 million in research grants. Key publications include 'Did Physical Activity 4 Everyone work? Efficacy Trial' (American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2016), which showed increased adolescent physical activity; 'Physical Activity 4 Everyone' scaled-up trial (BMC Public Health, 2019); and 'Whole-of-community interventions to reduce population-level harms arising from alcohol and other drug use: a systematic review and meta-analysis' (Addiction, 2018). Major projects encompass the Good for Kids Good for Life initiative, implemented in 400 primary schools and 300 childcare centres, reducing childhood overweight and obesity and adopted statewide as NSW Health's Healthy Children Initiative; and the alcohol linking program with NSW Police, reducing licensed premises crime by 15%, adopted by New Zealand and South Australia Police. He has facilitated over 20 instances of intervention translation into routine practice locally, statewide, nationally, and internationally. In 2016, Wiggers received the Hunter Medical Research Institute Award for Research Excellence as the Hunter's top researcher.