Andrew Haddon Kemp

Professor Andrew Kemp is an Invited International Visiting Professor at the University of São Paulo, a multi-disciplinary researcher, academic, and editor for leading open science journals including PLOS ONE, Frontiers in Psychology and Frontiers in Psychiatry. His research spans the cognitive and affective neurosciences through to epidemiology, bridging the gap between biological mechanism and long-term public health. Findings have been published in over 100 journal articles and book chapters, and these have attracted significant attention from scientific and lay communities leading to an h-index of 35 (since 2001) and many articles in lay press.Consistent with his focus on public health, he is currently residing in Brazil where he is working on the largest epidemiological study on the health and wellbeing of the Brazilian population, the Brazilian longitudinal study of adult health (ELSA-Brasil). He is also making important contributions to the University of Washington Global Burden of Disease (GBD) project. He recently published a major first-authored outcome in the American Journal of Psychiatry based on the work he has been conducting in Brazil. His contributions to the Global Burden of Disease effort over the last year have also led to three major co-authored publications in The Lancet, with two others in press. Professor Kemp is a leading international figure in the relationship between mental health and wellbeing. In additional to his current work for the University of São Paulo and the University of Washington in public health, he is an Honorary Associate Professor at the University of Sydney at which he has pioneered a productive program of research on the biological mechanisms linking emotion to physical health. In 2013, he submitted a major invited review of his work in this area (Kemp & Quintana, 2013, Int J Psychophysiol), a publication that has already garnered 30 citations (as at Feb, 2015). An earlier study on the impact of depression and its treatment on heart rate variability published in the high impact journal Biological Psychiatry, in 2010, has attracted a total of 240 citations. His recent publication in the American Journal of Psychiatry, a leading journal in the field, continues his research in this underdeveloped research field. His professional profile is available at the following locations:LinkedIn: au.linkedin.com/in/andrewhkemp/Google Scholar: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=8WuUF-IAAAAJResearchGate: http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Andrew_Kemp/