Dr. Scott Rollo
Research, Strategy and Content Development
Dr. Scott Rollo is the Director of Research, Strategy and Content Development for GoGet.Fit. Outside of this role, he is currently a Health Promotion Specialist with Canadian Forces Morale & Welfare Services at CFB Borden.
Prior to this, Scott was a postdoctoral research fellow with the Healthy Active Living and Obesity (HALO) research group at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute and with the School of Epidemiology and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine at the University of Ottawa. Scott has a PhD in Kinesiology from The University of Western Ontario, where he specialized in evidence-based health promotion, health behaviour change & behavioural medicine research targeting lifestyle behaviours.
Dr. Rollo has conducted healthy active living epidemiology, population-based health measurement and surveillance, and public health promotion research in both adult and pediatric populations. He has also been involved in healthy active living knowledge translation and mobilization, as well as the development of evidence-based recommendations. He has worked with numerous databases and surveillance systems, which has allowed him to examine trends in socio-demographic characteristics, built environment factors, health behaviours, and health outcomes from large, diverse, and geographically stratified samples of children and adults across multiple countries.
Scott’s work experience has provided him with a critical understanding of community health promotion activities, interventions, and program evaluation. He has developed and implemented several research studies and health promotion programs targeting physical activity, sedentary behaviour, smoking cessation, mental health, school health, and occupational health and wellness using behaviour change frameworks and digital health, counselling, and social marketing techniques.
Scott has published >30 scientific papers and book chapters (including multiple systematic reviews), delivered >25 national or international conference presentations, and secured research funding at the provincial/national level. He has also taught ‘Psychology of Human Movement Science’ at Western University and ‘Contemporary Issues in Healthy Active Living: Biological, Psychosocial, Policy and Global Perspectives’ at Carleton University.
He is passionate about working in a team-oriented environment dedicated to monitoring population health, developing public health messages, and implementing effective community programs and services to foster healthy active living, prevent non-communicable/chronic diseases and promote public health and well-being.
Outside of work, Scott can be found spending time with his wife and son, being physically active, playing hockey, cycling and hiking. He also enjoys travelling, camping, good food & drink, and time spent with friends and family.