Simon Rosenbaum
@srosenbaum.bsky.social
Professor, Discipline of Psychiatry and Mental Health, UNSW Sydney
Co-Chair Nutrition, Exercise and Social Equity (NExuS) Research Group
MHPSS & physical activity consultant
Olympic Refuge Foundation Think Tank Member
Co-Chair Nutrition, Exercise and Social Equity (NExuS) Research Group
MHPSS & physical activity consultant
Olympic Refuge Foundation Think Tank Member
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Simon Rosenbaum
@srosenbaum.bsky.social
· Mar 17
🌍 Could physical activity (PA) be a missing link in mental health support for displaced communities?
Thanks to Intervention Journal for opportunity to provide further background on our recent paper here: journals.lww.com/invn/fulltex...
Thanks to Intervention Journal for opportunity to provide further background on our recent paper here: journals.lww.com/invn/fulltex...
Reposted by Simon Rosenbaum
Epistemic dignity
I wrote an essay on this important book for @thelancet.com: Do Less Harm: Ethical Questions for Health Historians, edited by Courtney Thompson & Kylie Smith
Please read the review here www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
The book is available here www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
I wrote an essay on this important book for @thelancet.com: Do Less Harm: Ethical Questions for Health Historians, edited by Courtney Thompson & Kylie Smith
Please read the review here www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
The book is available here www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
November 7, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Epistemic dignity
I wrote an essay on this important book for @thelancet.com: Do Less Harm: Ethical Questions for Health Historians, edited by Courtney Thompson & Kylie Smith
Please read the review here www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
The book is available here www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
I wrote an essay on this important book for @thelancet.com: Do Less Harm: Ethical Questions for Health Historians, edited by Courtney Thompson & Kylie Smith
Please read the review here www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
The book is available here www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
The evidence is clear. Lifestyle interventions... can reduce psychiatric symptoms, improve physical health, and extend life expectancy. The task before us is no longer to prove efficacy, but to embed these interventions into the core of mental health care.
insightplus.mja.com.au/2025/43/life...
insightplus.mja.com.au/2025/43/life...
Lifestyle interventions must become a core part of mental health care - InSight+
Australians living with severe mental illness continue to die around 15 years earlier than the general population. The majority of this gap is driven not by suicide but by preventable physical health ...
insightplus.mja.com.au
November 4, 2025 at 11:13 AM
The evidence is clear. Lifestyle interventions... can reduce psychiatric symptoms, improve physical health, and extend life expectancy. The task before us is no longer to prove efficacy, but to embed these interventions into the core of mental health care.
insightplus.mja.com.au/2025/43/life...
insightplus.mja.com.au/2025/43/life...
Reposted by Simon Rosenbaum
The gaze reversed: global health through local eyes
@thirushanaidu.bsky.social reviews @seyeabimbola.bsky.social’s book in @thelancet.com
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
@thirushanaidu.bsky.social reviews @seyeabimbola.bsky.social’s book in @thelancet.com
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
The gaze reversed: global health through local eyes
Seye Abimbola's The Foreign Gaze: Essays on Global Health takes a kaleidoscopic view
of the effects of outsider visions and imaginaries on the recipients, contexts, and
places that hold attention in g...
www.thelancet.com
October 7, 2025 at 1:14 AM
The gaze reversed: global health through local eyes
@thirushanaidu.bsky.social reviews @seyeabimbola.bsky.social’s book in @thelancet.com
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
@thirushanaidu.bsky.social reviews @seyeabimbola.bsky.social’s book in @thelancet.com
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Reposted by Simon Rosenbaum
Now published in the Journal of Clinical Exercise Physiology!
In this brief review, we summarise high-level evidence regarding physical activity and mental health, both from a prevention and treatment view for clinical exercise professionals.
📄 Paper: lnkd.in/g-K-Uuih
In this brief review, we summarise high-level evidence regarding physical activity and mental health, both from a prevention and treatment view for clinical exercise professionals.
📄 Paper: lnkd.in/g-K-Uuih
September 22, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Now published in the Journal of Clinical Exercise Physiology!
In this brief review, we summarise high-level evidence regarding physical activity and mental health, both from a prevention and treatment view for clinical exercise professionals.
📄 Paper: lnkd.in/g-K-Uuih
In this brief review, we summarise high-level evidence regarding physical activity and mental health, both from a prevention and treatment view for clinical exercise professionals.
📄 Paper: lnkd.in/g-K-Uuih
Reposted by Simon Rosenbaum
It was nice to see @lancetgh.bsky.social editors wrote an editorial in the issue of the journal featuring our article.
They committed to being "mindful of these expectations in all work that we evaluate".
Restoring dignity to the marginalised as sovereign knowers: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
They committed to being "mindful of these expectations in all work that we evaluate".
Restoring dignity to the marginalised as sovereign knowers: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
August 27, 2025 at 12:29 PM
It was nice to see @lancetgh.bsky.social editors wrote an editorial in the issue of the journal featuring our article.
They committed to being "mindful of these expectations in all work that we evaluate".
Restoring dignity to the marginalised as sovereign knowers: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
They committed to being "mindful of these expectations in all work that we evaluate".
Restoring dignity to the marginalised as sovereign knowers: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
The 2nd Motion Impacts Emotion conference hosted by the AB Korkor Foundation for Mental Health is on September 27 and 28, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
adelbkorkorfoundation.org/internationa...
adelbkorkorfoundation.org/internationa...
August 21, 2025 at 5:59 PM
The 2nd Motion Impacts Emotion conference hosted by the AB Korkor Foundation for Mental Health is on September 27 and 28, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
adelbkorkorfoundation.org/internationa...
adelbkorkorfoundation.org/internationa...
The Lancet Psychiatry Commission marks a shift: from “why lifestyle interventions?” to “how do we deliver them fairly & sustainably in mental health care?” 🚴♀️🥦 Equity, Global South voices & lived experience are at the centre.
Free here:
kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...
Free here:
kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...
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August 21, 2025 at 10:58 AM
The Lancet Psychiatry Commission marks a shift: from “why lifestyle interventions?” to “how do we deliver them fairly & sustainably in mental health care?” 🚴♀️🥦 Equity, Global South voices & lived experience are at the centre.
Free here:
kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...
Free here:
kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...
Reposted by Simon Rosenbaum
Our new Lancet Psychiatry Commision into physical health in mental health settings is out now!
We move the conversation from “do lifestyle programs work?” to “how do we make them part of core mental health care?”—w/ equity & real-world implementation central
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
We move the conversation from “do lifestyle programs work?” to “how do we make them part of core mental health care?”—w/ equity & real-world implementation central
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Implementing lifestyle interventions in mental health care: third report of the Lancet Psychiatry Physical Health Commission
The physical health disparities experienced by people who live with mental illness
are well documented. This population group has cardiometabolic risks and diseases
at rates 1·4–2·0 times higher than ...
www.thelancet.com
August 14, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Our new Lancet Psychiatry Commision into physical health in mental health settings is out now!
We move the conversation from “do lifestyle programs work?” to “how do we make them part of core mental health care?”—w/ equity & real-world implementation central
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
We move the conversation from “do lifestyle programs work?” to “how do we make them part of core mental health care?”—w/ equity & real-world implementation central
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Bold ideas to create an equal future
Brilliant closing panel of the @lifecoursecentre.bsky.social conference chaired by @alyssacmilton.bsky.social
Brilliant closing panel of the @lifecoursecentre.bsky.social conference chaired by @alyssacmilton.bsky.social
July 25, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Bold ideas to create an equal future
Brilliant closing panel of the @lifecoursecentre.bsky.social conference chaired by @alyssacmilton.bsky.social
Brilliant closing panel of the @lifecoursecentre.bsky.social conference chaired by @alyssacmilton.bsky.social
💬 What makes sport protective for adolescent mental health?
How sport is delivered matters.
1️⃣ Involve adolescents & caregivers
2️⃣ Engage with social determinants
3️⃣ Strengthen coping skills
4️⃣ Create inclusive environments
5️⃣ Challenge harmful gender norms
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
How sport is delivered matters.
1️⃣ Involve adolescents & caregivers
2️⃣ Engage with social determinants
3️⃣ Strengthen coping skills
4️⃣ Create inclusive environments
5️⃣ Challenge harmful gender norms
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
How can sport promote adolescent mental health? A qualitative study from the rural plains of Nepal
Sport holds potential to deliver adolescent mental health promotion, which is particularly important in low resource settings where there is high burd…
www.sciencedirect.com
July 14, 2025 at 11:47 PM
💬 What makes sport protective for adolescent mental health?
How sport is delivered matters.
1️⃣ Involve adolescents & caregivers
2️⃣ Engage with social determinants
3️⃣ Strengthen coping skills
4️⃣ Create inclusive environments
5️⃣ Challenge harmful gender norms
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
How sport is delivered matters.
1️⃣ Involve adolescents & caregivers
2️⃣ Engage with social determinants
3️⃣ Strengthen coping skills
4️⃣ Create inclusive environments
5️⃣ Challenge harmful gender norms
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Reposted by Simon Rosenbaum
Great to see the results of my Master's trial published in Age & Ageing!
Our program was delivered through Facebook to older adults with lifestyle education, eHealth falls prevention (StandingTall) and tailored exercise prescribed by Exercise Physiologists.
Read the paper here 👉 lnkd.in/gY3SYuqT
Our program was delivered through Facebook to older adults with lifestyle education, eHealth falls prevention (StandingTall) and tailored exercise prescribed by Exercise Physiologists.
Read the paper here 👉 lnkd.in/gY3SYuqT
July 11, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Great to see the results of my Master's trial published in Age & Ageing!
Our program was delivered through Facebook to older adults with lifestyle education, eHealth falls prevention (StandingTall) and tailored exercise prescribed by Exercise Physiologists.
Read the paper here 👉 lnkd.in/gY3SYuqT
Our program was delivered through Facebook to older adults with lifestyle education, eHealth falls prevention (StandingTall) and tailored exercise prescribed by Exercise Physiologists.
Read the paper here 👉 lnkd.in/gY3SYuqT
Where does sport fit within mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS)?
When designed and delivered with intention, it can play a meaningful role across the entire system of support.
@gulsahkurt.bsky.social
@peterventevogel.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
When designed and delivered with intention, it can play a meaningful role across the entire system of support.
@gulsahkurt.bsky.social
@peterventevogel.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
June 30, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Where does sport fit within mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS)?
When designed and delivered with intention, it can play a meaningful role across the entire system of support.
@gulsahkurt.bsky.social
@peterventevogel.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
When designed and delivered with intention, it can play a meaningful role across the entire system of support.
@gulsahkurt.bsky.social
@peterventevogel.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Reposted by Simon Rosenbaum
Are you an Australian Mental Health Professional and have 5-10min?
We aim to understand how to promote physical activity in mental healthcare, so your contribution would be greatly appreciated!
Link 👉 lnkd.in/gtr-FrNW
@srosenbaum.bsky.social
@gracemckeon.bsky.social
@gulsahkurt.bsky.social
We aim to understand how to promote physical activity in mental healthcare, so your contribution would be greatly appreciated!
Link 👉 lnkd.in/gtr-FrNW
@srosenbaum.bsky.social
@gracemckeon.bsky.social
@gulsahkurt.bsky.social
June 24, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Are you an Australian Mental Health Professional and have 5-10min?
We aim to understand how to promote physical activity in mental healthcare, so your contribution would be greatly appreciated!
Link 👉 lnkd.in/gtr-FrNW
@srosenbaum.bsky.social
@gracemckeon.bsky.social
@gulsahkurt.bsky.social
We aim to understand how to promote physical activity in mental healthcare, so your contribution would be greatly appreciated!
Link 👉 lnkd.in/gtr-FrNW
@srosenbaum.bsky.social
@gracemckeon.bsky.social
@gulsahkurt.bsky.social
From camp to clinic: how movement is reshaping mental health care approaches
Thanks @aipscience.bsky.social for putting this together.
aips.org.au/news-events/...
Thanks @aipscience.bsky.social for putting this together.
aips.org.au/news-events/...
From camp to clinic: how movement is reshaping mental health care approaches AIPS AIPS
How refugee-led, trauma-informed exercise programs are opening new paths to mental health care and community healing.
aips.org.au
June 20, 2025 at 6:47 AM
From camp to clinic: how movement is reshaping mental health care approaches
Thanks @aipscience.bsky.social for putting this together.
aips.org.au/news-events/...
Thanks @aipscience.bsky.social for putting this together.
aips.org.au/news-events/...
Reposted by Simon Rosenbaum
Proud to share our new publication in BJSM, which comes just after we celebrated 2,000 exercise sessions delivered through Addi Moves—a trauma-informed, community-based physical activity program co-designed with and for people experiencing social and economic disadvantage.
lnkd.in/guUaCrgY
lnkd.in/guUaCrgY
June 19, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Proud to share our new publication in BJSM, which comes just after we celebrated 2,000 exercise sessions delivered through Addi Moves—a trauma-informed, community-based physical activity program co-designed with and for people experiencing social and economic disadvantage.
lnkd.in/guUaCrgY
lnkd.in/guUaCrgY
Multi-component interventions combining psychotherapy and physical activity for children and young peoples’ mental health: A scoping review
journals.plos.org/mentalhealth...
journals.plos.org/mentalhealth...
Multi-component interventions combining psychotherapy and physical activity for children and young peoples’ mental health: A scoping review
Multi-component mental health interventions, combining psychotherapy and physical activity (PA), have shown potential with adult populations, but their use with children and young people (CYP) remains...
journals.plos.org
June 17, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Multi-component interventions combining psychotherapy and physical activity for children and young peoples’ mental health: A scoping review
journals.plos.org/mentalhealth...
journals.plos.org/mentalhealth...
Reposted by Simon Rosenbaum
The need for mental health and psychosocial support during and after displacement crises is crystal clear, but it often gets “thrown to the bottom of the barrel” in aid responses.
How to centre mental health in displacement
What lessons can be learned from Lebanon’s displacement crisis?
buff.ly
June 14, 2025 at 8:00 AM
The need for mental health and psychosocial support during and after displacement crises is crystal clear, but it often gets “thrown to the bottom of the barrel” in aid responses.
What’s the link between moving our bodies & meaning in life?
New scoping review of 34 studies (N=>100k) finds consistent, small, positive association in both directions. PA might help us make sense of life, and a sense of meaning might help us stay active.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
New scoping review of 34 studies (N=>100k) finds consistent, small, positive association in both directions. PA might help us make sense of life, and a sense of meaning might help us stay active.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Physical Activity and Meaning in Life: A Scoping Review - Journal of Happiness Studies
Journal of Happiness Studies - Meaning in life is a key concept in positive psychology and has received increasing attention in recent years. This study aimed to provide an overview of the...
link.springer.com
June 10, 2025 at 11:29 PM
What’s the link between moving our bodies & meaning in life?
New scoping review of 34 studies (N=>100k) finds consistent, small, positive association in both directions. PA might help us make sense of life, and a sense of meaning might help us stay active.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
New scoping review of 34 studies (N=>100k) finds consistent, small, positive association in both directions. PA might help us make sense of life, and a sense of meaning might help us stay active.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Moving forward: The relationship between physical activity and post-deployment outcomes
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June 5, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Moving forward: The relationship between physical activity and post-deployment outcomes
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
The evolution of sports psychiatry: a clinical intersection of mental health and physical activity
bjsm.bmj.com/content/59/6...
bjsm.bmj.com/content/59/6...
The evolution of sports psychiatry: a clinical intersection of mental health and physical activity
Long before the term ‘sports psychiatry’ was first introduced nearly 40 years ago,1 2 clinicians and academics recognised the critical role of mental and brain health in sports. For example, Jokl and ...
bjsm.bmj.com
June 3, 2025 at 9:28 AM
The evolution of sports psychiatry: a clinical intersection of mental health and physical activity
bjsm.bmj.com/content/59/6...
bjsm.bmj.com/content/59/6...
The missing link in the NCD agenda: girls and young women remain overlooked
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
The missing link in the NCD agenda: girls and young women remain overlooked
An update to the original 2016 Commission, this second iteration of The Lancet Commission
on adolescent health and wellbeing presents crucial data on the challenges faced by
adolescents and shares a c...
www.thelancet.com
May 21, 2025 at 8:19 AM
The missing link in the NCD agenda: girls and young women remain overlooked
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
New from NExuS team led @gracemckeon.bsky.social
We explored physical activity & food security in Australia’s Rohingya community
Visa insecurity and gender shaped access and motivation.
Health promotion must tackle structural drivers.
Read more:
bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
We explored physical activity & food security in Australia’s Rohingya community
Visa insecurity and gender shaped access and motivation.
Health promotion must tackle structural drivers.
Read more:
bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Exploring barriers and facilitators to physical activity participation and food security among the Rohingya community living in Australia: a socio-ecological perspective - BMC Public Health
Introduction Many Rohingya people from Myanmar have sought refuge and resettled in Australia due to persecution and genocide. Like many people from refugee and asylum seeker backgrounds who resettle i...
bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com
May 20, 2025 at 5:20 AM
New from NExuS team led @gracemckeon.bsky.social
We explored physical activity & food security in Australia’s Rohingya community
Visa insecurity and gender shaped access and motivation.
Health promotion must tackle structural drivers.
Read more:
bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
We explored physical activity & food security in Australia’s Rohingya community
Visa insecurity and gender shaped access and motivation.
Health promotion must tackle structural drivers.
Read more:
bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Reposted by Simon Rosenbaum
Excellent meta-review of #exercise.
🔑 limitation reflecting common scepticism in #mentalhealthcare is summed up here:
“Most studies do not reflect real-world circumstances, with resources, staffing and less complex disorder severity of participants that are not representative for everyday contexts”
🔑 limitation reflecting common scepticism in #mentalhealthcare is summed up here:
“Most studies do not reflect real-world circumstances, with resources, staffing and less complex disorder severity of participants that are not representative for everyday contexts”
Our new meta-review in World Psychiatry
Efficacy, mechanisms and implementation of physical activity in the treatment of mental disorders
Led by Prof Vancampfort, we reviewed 256 RCTs including 12,233 individuals
@brendonstubbs.bsky.social
@peterventevogel.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1002/wps....
Efficacy, mechanisms and implementation of physical activity in the treatment of mental disorders
Led by Prof Vancampfort, we reviewed 256 RCTs including 12,233 individuals
@brendonstubbs.bsky.social
@peterventevogel.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1002/wps....
The efficacy, mechanisms and implementation of physical activity as an adjunctive treatment in mental disorders: a meta‐review of outcomes, neurobiology and key determinants
Research examining physical activity interventions for mental disorders has grown exponentially in the past decade. At this critical juncture, there is a need to synthesize the best evidence to guide...
doi.org
May 16, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Excellent meta-review of #exercise.
🔑 limitation reflecting common scepticism in #mentalhealthcare is summed up here:
“Most studies do not reflect real-world circumstances, with resources, staffing and less complex disorder severity of participants that are not representative for everyday contexts”
🔑 limitation reflecting common scepticism in #mentalhealthcare is summed up here:
“Most studies do not reflect real-world circumstances, with resources, staffing and less complex disorder severity of participants that are not representative for everyday contexts”
Our new meta-review in World Psychiatry
Efficacy, mechanisms and implementation of physical activity in the treatment of mental disorders
Led by Prof Vancampfort, we reviewed 256 RCTs including 12,233 individuals
@brendonstubbs.bsky.social
@peterventevogel.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1002/wps....
Efficacy, mechanisms and implementation of physical activity in the treatment of mental disorders
Led by Prof Vancampfort, we reviewed 256 RCTs including 12,233 individuals
@brendonstubbs.bsky.social
@peterventevogel.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1002/wps....
The efficacy, mechanisms and implementation of physical activity as an adjunctive treatment in mental disorders: a meta‐review of outcomes, neurobiology and key determinants
Research examining physical activity interventions for mental disorders has grown exponentially in the past decade. At this critical juncture, there is a need to synthesize the best evidence to guide...
doi.org
May 16, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Our new meta-review in World Psychiatry
Efficacy, mechanisms and implementation of physical activity in the treatment of mental disorders
Led by Prof Vancampfort, we reviewed 256 RCTs including 12,233 individuals
@brendonstubbs.bsky.social
@peterventevogel.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1002/wps....
Efficacy, mechanisms and implementation of physical activity in the treatment of mental disorders
Led by Prof Vancampfort, we reviewed 256 RCTs including 12,233 individuals
@brendonstubbs.bsky.social
@peterventevogel.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1002/wps....