A/Prof Dale Rae

Research Thrusts

• Sleep for health and performance
• Obesity & Non-communicable diseases
• Physical activity and health

Academic Qualifications

• PhD
• BSc(Med)Hons Exercise Science
• BA (Human Movement Studies)

Positions

Senior Researcher (UCT)

• Director, Sleep Science
• Executive Board Member, South African Society for Sleep Health
• Editorial Board Member: Journal of Physical Activity, Sedentary and Sleep Behaviours
• Editorial Board Member: Sleep Matters
• Editorial Board Member: Frontiers in Sports and Active Living

Research Output

Peer reviewed Publication Number: 40

NRF rating: C2

Scopus H-index: 12

Google H-index: 16

Google Scholar link or ORCID link

Google scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ouDPnM0AAAAJ&hl=en&authuser=3

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2584-6585

International and national research collaborations

International

1. A/Prof Cecile Boot. Department of Public and Occupational Health. Vrye University Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
2. Prof Lara Dugas. Public Health Sciences. Loyola University, Chicago, US.
3. Prof Laura Roden. School of Life Sciences. Coventry University, UK.
4. Prof Willem van Mechelen. Department of Public and Occupational Health. Vrye University Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
5. Prof Malcolm von Schantz. Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK.

Local

6. Prof Candice Christie. Department of Human Kinetics and Ergonomics. Rhodes University.
7. Dr Jonathan Davy. Department of Human Kinetics and Ergonomics. Rhodes University.
8. A/Prof Catherine Draper. Developmental Pathways to Health Research Unit, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand.
9. A/Prof Xavier Gómez-Olivé Casas. MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt), School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand
10. Dr Gosia Lipinska. Department of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities, University of Cape Town
11. Dr Karine Scheurmaier. School of Physiology. Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand.
12. Dr Greg Symons. Pulmonology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town.

Recent and noteworthy publications

1. Lewis R, Roden LC, Scheuermaier K, Gomez-Olive FX, Rae DE, Iacovides S, Bentley A, Davy JP, Christie CJ, Zschernack S, Roche J, Lipinska G. The Impact of sleep, physical activity and sedentary behaviour on symptoms of depression and anxiety before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in a sample of South African participants. Scientific Reports. 2021. In press.
2. O’Brien K, Riddell N, Gomex-Olive FX, Rae DE, Scheuermaier K, von Schantz M. Sleep disturbances in HIV infection and their biological basis. Sleep Medicine Reviews. 2021. In press.
3. Fei N, Choo-Kang C, Reutrakul S, Crowley McWilliams S, Rae DE, Bedu-Addo K, Plange-Rhule, Forrester T, Lambert EV, Bovet P, Riesen W, Korte W, Luke A, Layden B, Gilbert J, Dugas LR. Gut microbiota alterations in response to sleep length among African-origin adults. PLOS ONE. 2021. In press

4. Rae DE, Tomasz SA, Jones R, Hinkley T, Twine R, Kahn K, Norris S, Draper CE. Sleep and BMI in South African urban and rural, high and low-income preschool children. BMC Public Health. 2021. 21(1):571.
5. Pienaar PR, Roden LC, Boot CRL, van Mechelen W, Twisk J, Lambert EV , Rae DE. Association between self-reported sleep duration and cardiometabolic risk in corporate executives. International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health. 2021. 94(8):1809-1821.
6. Roche J, Rae D, Redman K, Knutson KL, von Schantz M, Gómez-Olivé FX, Scheuermaier K. Impact of obstructive sleep apnea on cardiometabolic health in a random sample of older adults in rural South Africa: Building the case for the treatment of sleep disorders in under-resourced settings. Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine. 2021. 17(7):1423-1434.
7. Mendham A, Goedecke J, Fortuin-de Smidt M, Phiri L, Clamp L, Swart Jeroen, Lipinska G and Rae D. Improved sleep quality and depressive symptoms with exercise training in obese women from a low socioeconomic community: A randomized controlled trial. Journal of Physical Activity and Health. 2021. 18(4):440-449.
8. Rae DE, Dugas LR, Roden LC Lambert EV, Bovet P, Plange-Rhule J, Forrester T, Riesen W, Korte W, Crowley SJ, Reutrakul S, Luke A. Associations between self-reported sleep duration and cardiometabolic risk in African-origin adults from the Modeling the Epidemiologic Transition Study (METS). Sleep Health. 2020. 6(4):469-477.
9. Henst RHP, Pienaar PR, Roden LC, Rae DE. The effects of sleep extension on cardiometabolic risk factors: A systematic review. J Sleep Research. 2019. 28(6): e12865.
10. Gómez-Olivé F, Rohr JK, Roden LC, Rae DE, and von Schantz M. Associations between sleep parameters, non-communicable diseases, HIV status and medications in older, rural South Africans. Sci Rep. 2018. 8(1):17321.

Grants and funding