Catrine Tudor-Locke

Professor, Associate Dean of Research in the School of Public Health and Health Sciences

I am a walking behavior researcher and am a recognized world leader in objective physical activity assessment and promotion, specifically focused on pedometer or accelerometer-determined ambulatory activity captured as steps/day across the lifespan. I am a trained program evaluator and adult educator focused on practical applications in objective monitoring measurement and intervention. I have also published on clinical vs. free-living gait analysis, including interpretation of cadence as a simple indicator of ambulatory patterns. I have also published work documenting the relationship between time spent in sedentary behavior and relatively low ambulatory activity, measured as steps/day.

Learn more at www.umass.edu/sphhs/person/faculty/catrine-tudor-locke

Academic Background

BA University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, 1985, Physical Education
MSc Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1992, Kinesiology
PhD University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, 2000, Health Studies
Postdoctoral training University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, 2001, Public Health

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Publications

Tudor-Locke, C., Schuna Jr., J.M., Han, H., Aguiar, E.J., Green, M.A., Busa, M.A., Larrivee, S., & Johnson, W.D. Step-based physical activity metrics and cardiometabolic risk: NHANES 2005-06, Medicine and Science in Sport and Exercise. 2016 (in press)

Lim, J., Schuna, J.M., Jr., Busa, M.A., Umberger, B.R., Katzmarzyk, P.T., Van Emmerik, R.E.A., & Tudor-Locke, C. Allometrically scaled children’s clinical and free-living ambulatory behavior. Medicine and Science in Sport and Exercise. 2016 (in press)

Shephard, R.J. & Tudor-Locke, C. (editors). The Objective Monitoring of Physical Activity: Contributions of Accelerometry to Epidemiology, Exercise Science and Rehabilitation.2016, Spring International Publishing. 10.1007/978-3-319-29577-0

Tudor-Locke, C., Craig, C.L., Thyfault, J.P., & Spence, J.C. A step-defined sedentary lifestyle index: < 5,000 steps/day. Applied Physiology Nutrition, and Metabolism. 2013; 38(2):100-14.

Tudor-Locke, C., & Rowe, D.A. Using cadence to study free-living ambulatory behavior. Sports Medicine, 2012; 42(5):381-398.

Catrine Tudor-Locke

Institute for Applied Life Sciences