Barbara Ainsworth, PhD, FACSM-Vice-Chair
Dr. Ainsworth is a professor in the Department of Exercise and Wellness at Arizona State University. Her research relates to physical activity and public health with focuses on the assessment of physical activity in populations, the evaluation of physical activity questionnaires, and on identifying neighborhood environmental supports for physical activity. Dr. Ainsworth teaches courses on research methods, grant writing, physical activity and public health, and physical activity epidemiology. Dr. Ainsworth is best known as the lead author for the Compendium of Physical Activities, an exhaustive list of the energy cost of human physical activities. She is a core member for the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ) development and evaluation team and serves as the translation coordinator for the questionnaires that reside on the IPAQ website (www.ipaq.ki.se). Dr. Ainsworth is a member of the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports Scientific Advisory Committee and serves on the Editorial Board for the journals, Physical Activity and Health, International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Public Health Nutrition, and is senior editor for the PCPFS Research Digest. Dr. Ainsworth has lectured in many countries and holds honorary academic appointments at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden and the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. She is a fellow in the American College of Sports Medicine, Research Consortium of AAHPERD, American Academy of Kinesiology and Physical Education, and the North American Society of HPERD Professionals. Dr. Ainsworth serves as the president of the Southwest ACSM and is a recent ACSM National Citation Award recipient and President’s Lecturer. Dr. Ainsworth mentors master’s and doctoral students interested in examining physical activity trends in populations, understanding physical activity in minorities and low education, assessment of physical activity, and identifying environmental factors associated with physical activity.