Simon Bacon

Professor at the Department of Exercise Science, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

Simon Bacon is Full Professor at the Department of Exercise Science, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. His research deals with the impact of health behaviours (e.g., physical activity, diet, weight management, stress) on the development and progression of chronic diseases (e.g., obesity, cardiovascular disease, COVID-19). He utilises multiple methodologies including epidemiological, psychophysiological, evidence syntheses, and behavioural trials designs. Currently, Simon Bacon is the co-chair in Artificial Intelligence and Digitial Health for Health Behaviour Change and the Canadian Institutes Health Research (CIHR) - Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research (SPOR) Chair in Innovative, Patient-Oriented, Behavioural Clinical Trials. He is also a fellow of the Obesity Society, the Canadian Cardiovascular Society, and the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research. In addition to Concordia University, Simon is co-director of the Montreal Behavioural Medicine Centre, a researcher at the Centre intégré universitaire de santé et de services sociaux du Nord-de-l'Île-de-Montréal (CIUSSS-NIM), and co-leads the International Behavioural Trials Network and the CIHR funded Canadian Behavioural Interventions and Trials Network.