Anja Frei MSc, PhD

Anja Frei works as a senior researcher at the Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Prevention Institute (EBPI) of the University of Zurich. She graduated and completed a Ph.D. in Psychology with a specialization in social and health psychology at the University of Zurich and an MSc in Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. She has broad methodological and practical experience in developing, conducting, and implementing research projects and interventions in the field of health behavior change, physical activity, measurement methods, chronic disease epidemiology (especially COPD), and older age. She is the Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre Physical Activity and Health at the EBPI, an executive member of the HEPA Europe Steering Committee network, and an MC member representing Switzerland in the COST action “Determinants of Physical Activities in Settings”.