Yanping Duan

Duan Yanping is an Associate Professor of the Department of Sport, Physical Education and Health at Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong and chair of ASPA’s Asia Committee. Her research interests include health behaviour promotion and sport psychology, with a primary focus on exploring psycho-social, social-cultural and environmental determinants of physical activity behaviour as well as designing, implementing and evaluating theory- and evidence-based physical exercise intervention programme for the purpose of health promotion. She has published over 70 peer-reviewed articles in international journals including Journal of Medical Internet Research, Journal of Sport & Health Science, Psychology of Sport & Exercise, Landscape and Urban Planning, and others. Associate Professor Duan’s research covers diverse samples (e.g., university students and staff, office-based employees, older adults, cardiac rehabilitation patients) applying various approaches including observation, interview, questionnaire survey, onsite-, web- and app-based interventions. She is currently the Associate Editor of Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being, the Associate Editor of Frontiers in Public Health, the Associate Editor of Frontiers in Psychology, and the Asian Editor of the American Journal of Health Behaviour

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