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Overview

Harold W. Kohl is affiliated with The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine, with significant contributions to Infectious Diseases, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Physiology, Transportation, and General Health Professions.

Their work addresses several main topics, including:

  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
  • Physical Activity and Health
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • Urban Transport and Accessibility
  • COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
  • Traffic and Road Safety
  • Health and Lifestyle Studies

Harold W. Kohl has published extensively in various venues. The most frequent publication venues include:

  • Journal of Physical Activity and Health (11 publications)
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (4 publications)
  • BMC Public Health (3 publications)
  • The Journal of Infectious Diseases (2 publications)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (2 publications)

Some notable recent papers featuring Harold W. Kohl are:

  • Keeping children healthy during and after COVID-19 pandemic: meeting youth physical activity needs, 2021, BMC Public Health
  • Physical activity self-reports: past or future?, 2021, British Journal of Sports Medicine
  • Effects of trees, gardens, and nature trails on heat index and child health: design and methods of the Green Schoolyards Project, 2021, BMC Public Health
  • Antibody Duration After Infection From SARS-CoV-2 in the Texas Coronavirus Antibody Response Survey, 2022, The Journal of Infectious Diseases
  • Status and Trends of Physical Activity Surveillance, Policy, and Research in 164 Countries: Findings From the Global Observatory for Physical Activity-GoPA! 2015 and 2020 Surveys, 2022, Journal of Physical Activity and Health

Frequent collaborators in their research include Sarah Messiah, Michael D. Swartz, Stacia M. DeSantis, Ashraf Yaseen, and Stephen J. Pont, each contributing to multiple joint publications with Kohl.

Best Publications

  • Physical Fitness and All-Cause Mortality: A Prospective Study of Healthy Men and Women

    Steven N. Blair;Harold W. Kohl;Ralph S. Paffenbarger;Debra G. Clark

  • The pandemic of physical inactivity: global action for public health

    Harold W Kohl;Cora Lynn Craig;Estelle Victoria Lambert;Shigeru Inoue

  • Changes in Physical Fitness and All-Cause Mortality: A Prospective Study of Healthy and Unhealthy Men

    Steven N. Blair;Harold W. Kohl;Carolyn E. Barlow;Ralph S. Paffenbarger

  • Influences of cardiorespiratory fitness and other precursors on cardiovascular disease and all-cause mortality in men and women

    Steven N. Blair;James B. Kampert;Harold Willis Kohl;Carolyn E. Barlow

  • Comparison of lifestyle and structured interventions to increase physical activity and cardiorespiratory fitness: a randomized trial.

    Andrea L. Dunn;Bess H. Marcus;James B. Kampert;Melissa E. Garcia

  • Physical activity change during adolescence: a systematic review and a pooled analysis

    Samuel C. Dumith;Denise P. Gigante;Marlos R. Domingues;Harold Willis Kohl

  • Dose Response Between Physical Activity and Risk of Coronary Heart Disease A Meta-Analysis

    Jacob Sattelmair;Jeremy Pertman;Eric L. Ding;Harold W. Kohl

  • Educating the Student Body: Taking Physical Activity and Physical Education to School

    Harold W. Kohl;Heather D. Cook

  • Development of Physical Activity Behaviors Among Children and Adolescents

    Harold W. Kohl;Karen E. Hobbs

  • Worldwide prevalence of physical inactivity and its association with human development index in 76 countries.

    Samuel de Carvalho Dumith;Pedro Rodrigues Curi Hallal;Rodrigo Siqueira Reis;Rodrigo Siqueira Reis;Harold Kohl;Harold Kohl

  • Sedentary Behavior, Physical Activity, and the Metabolic Syndrome among U.S. Adults

    Earl S. Ford;Harold Willis Kohl;Ali H. Mokdad;Umed A. Ajani

  • Assessment of Physical Activity among Children and Adolescents: A Review and Synthesis

    Harold Willis Kohl;Janet E. Fulton;Carl J. Caspersen

  • How much physical activity is good for health

    Steven N. Blair;Harold W. Kohl Iii;Neil F. Gordon;Ralph S. Paffenbarger Jr.

  • Physical education and academic achievement in elementary school: data from the early childhood longitudinal study.

    Susan A Carlson;Janet E Fulton;Sarah M Lee;L. Michele Maynard

  • Long-term effects of changes in cardiorespiratory fitness and body mass index on all-cause and cardiovascular disease mortality in men: the Aerobics Center Longitudinal Study.

    Duck-chul Lee;Xuemei Sui;Enrique G. Artero;Enrique G. Artero;I-Min Lee

  • Physical activity and cardiovascular disease: evidence for a dose response.

    Harold Willis Kohl

  • Prevalence of physical activity, including lifestyle activities among adults - United States, 2000-2001.

    C. A. Macera;D. A. Jones;M. M. Yore;S. A. Ham

  • What functional activities are important to patients with knee replacements

    Jennifer M. Weiss;Philip C. Noble;Michael A. Conditt;Harold Willis Kohl

  • A MAIL SURVEY OF PHYSICAL ACTIVITY HABITS AS RELATED TO MEASURED PHYSICAL FITNESS

    Harold Willis Kohl;Steven N. Blair;Ralph S. Paffenbarger;Caroline A. Macera

  • Comparison of Lifestyle and Structured Interventions to Increase Physical Activity and Cardiorespiratory Fitness

    Andrea L. Dunn;Bess H. Marcus;James B. Kampert;Melissa E. Garcia

Frequent Co-Authors

Steven N. Blair
Steven N. Blair University of South Carolina
Caroline A. Macera
Caroline A. Macera San Diego State University
Pedro Curi Hallal
Pedro Curi Hallal University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Barbara E. Ainsworth
Barbara E. Ainsworth Arizona State University
Susan R. Tortolero
Susan R. Tortolero The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Deanna M. Hoelscher
Deanna M. Hoelscher The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Michael Pratt
Michael Pratt University of California, San Diego
Adrian Bauman
Adrian Bauman University of Sydney
I-Min Lee
I-Min Lee Harvard University
Nalini Ranjit
Nalini Ranjit The University of Texas Health Science Center

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