Publications

Reid, R. A., Loh, V., Vukic, M., Zhang, B., Bates, S., & Rachele, J. N. (2027). Walk Score® as a moderator of neighbourhood socioeconomic disadvantage and psychological distress. Journal of Transport & Health, 52, 102449.

Overweight mothers and stunted children: household double burden of malnutrition in Samoa (accepted, 2026). Public Health Nutrition.

Xing, R., Rachele, J. N., Loh, V., Dumuid, D., & Pedišić, Ž. (2026). Association of physical and social neighbourhood environment with movement behaviours among schoolchildren: a compositional data analysis. International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 23(1), 35.

Xing, R., Loh, V., Dumuid, D., & Rachele, J. N. (2026). Neighbourhood environment and meeting 24-hour movement guidelines among schoolchildren. International Journal of Environmental Health Research, 1-11.

Gurnhill, A., Mandzufas, J., Kleeman, A., Lowe, M., Chandrabose, M., Owen, N., ... & Foster, S. (2026). Neighbourhood density for better Heart Health: translating Research evidence into practice. Journal of Urbanism: International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability, 1-9.

Memon, A. R., Rachele, J. N., Grgic, J., Matolic, T., Jurakic, D., & Pedisic, Z. (2026). Temporal trends in sports and exercise participation: a study in a population-representative sample of 96,948 European Union adults. BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine, 12(3), e002922.

Reid, R. A., Kleeman, A., Rachele, J. N., Mavoa, S., Beenackers, M. A., & Foster, S. (2026). Sound advice: associations between building design attributes and residents’ noise annoyance. Cities & Health, 1–10.

Reid, R. A., Zhang, B., Mavoa, S., Gilmartin-Thomas, J., Foster, S., & Rachele, J. N. (2026). Neighbourhood socioeconomic inequalities in mental health: Systematic review on moderation by environmental attributes. Health & Place, 101, 103719.

Chen, S., Matolic, T., Memon, A. R., Rachele, J. N., Grgic, J., Espinoza, M. A., & Pedisic, Z. (2026). Economic cost of movement behaviours: a systematic review. Journal of Activity, Sedentary and Sleep Behaviors.

Reid, R. A., Mavoa, S., Gilmartin-Thomas, J., Foster, S., & Rachele, J. N. (2026). Environmental moderators of neighbourhood socioeconomic inequalities in mental health: a systematic review protocol. Systematic Reviews.

Rachele, J. N., Reid, R. A., Jamei, E., Clarkson, M., Bates, S., Sallabank, L., & Loh V. (2026) Associations between the built environment and body mass index among a residentially stable cohort of mid-older aged adults in Brisbane, Australia (2007-2016). Annals of Epidemiology. 110095.

Memon, A.R., Rachele, J.N., Grgic, J. Matolic, T., Jurakic, D, Kim, Y, & Pedisic., Z (2026). Social disparities in sports and exercise participation in the European Union: a cross-sectional study in a population-representative sample of 25,434 adults. J Public Health.

Osman, A., Bhowmik, J., Rachele, J., Gilmartin-Thomas, J., Gill, P., Gunarathne, L., & Braitberg, G. (2026). Understanding Healthcare-Seeking Patterns of People Experiencing Homelessness: A Quantitative Multi-Centre Analysis of Emergency Department Utilisation. Psychiatric Quarterly.

Reid, R. A., Loh, V., Xing, R., Zhang, B., Bates, S., & Rachele, J. N. (2026). Moderating effects of Walk Score® on the association between neighbourhood disadvantage and body mass index among mid-to-older aged Australian adults. Journal of Transport & Health, 46, 102227.

Davis, E. M., Heesch, K. C., Rachele, J. N., Burton, N. W., & Turrell, G. (2025). The contribution of crime to the longitudinal relationship between neighbourhood disadvantage and mental well-being, 2009 to 2016. Social Science & Medicine, 118631.

Reid, R. A., Mavoa, S., Foster, S., Gilmartin-Thomas, J., & Rachele, J. N. (2025) Spatially consistent annual Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA) data for Australian statistical areas, 1996- 2021. Annals of Epidemiology.

Reid, R. A., Mavoa, S., Gilmartin-Thomas, J., Foster, S., & Rachele, J. N. (2025). Associations between neighbourhood socioeconomic disadvantage and psychological distress among Australian adults: longitudinal analysis of the HILDA Survey (2007-2021). Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.

Rachele, J. N., Loh, V., Timperio, A., Veitch, J., Thomas, R., Reid, R. A., & Brown, W. J. (2025). Socioeconomic inequalities in physical function decline: multilevel longitudinal results from the HABITAT study. BMC Public Health, 25, 2378.

Nkemdilim, J., Loh, V., Reid, R. A., Rachele, J. N. (2025). Associations between neighbourhood socioeconomic disadvantage and body mass index: Longitudinal evidence from the Household Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey (2006-2021). Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.

Xing, R., Rachele, J. N., Matolic, T., Loh, V., Cerin, E., Jiao, J., Huang, W. Y., & Pedisic, Z. (2025). Associations between parental perceptions of neighbourhood environment and physical activity in children and adolescents: a systematic review including 149 studies. International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 22(1), 70.

Carver, A., Rachele, J. N., Sugiyama, T., Giles-Corti, B., Burton, N. W., & Turrell, G. (2024). Public greenspace and mental wellbeing among mid-older aged adults: Findings from the HABITAT longitudinal study. Health & Place 89: 103311.

Xing, R., Wang, R., Zopf, E. M., Rachele, J. N., Wang, Z., Li, Y., & Zhu, W. (2024). Effects of qigong exercise on physical fitness and patient-reported health outcomes in lung cancer survivors. Supportive Care in Cancer, 32(2), 99.

Rachele, J. N., Burn, G., Burke, K., & Alisic, E. (2024). Improving inclusion for children and young people with a disability in inner-city Melbourne, Australia. Cities, 150, 105103.

Rachele, J. N., Mavoa, S., Sugiyama, T., Kavanagh, A., Giles-Corti, B., Brown, W. J., ... & Turrell, G. (2024). Changes in neighbourhood walkability and body mass index: An analysis of residential mobility from a longitudinal multilevel study in Brisbane, Australia. Health & Place, 87, 103245.

Zhang, B., Loh, V., Reid, R. A., Nyanhanda, T., Jamalishahni, T., Turrell, G., & Rachele, J. N. (2024). The moderating effects of greenspace on the association between neighbourhood disadvantage and obesity among mid-to-older aged Australian adults. Health & Place, 87, 103263.

Reid, R. A., Foster, S., Mavoa, S., & Rachele, J. N. (2024). Associations between changes in crime and changes in walking for transport with effect measure modification by gender: A fixed-effects analysis of the multilevel longitudinal HABITAT study (2007–2016). Health & Place, 85, 103163.

Rachele, J. N., Disney, G., Milner, A., Thomas, R., Le Busque, J., Reid, R. A., & Kavanagh, A. M. (2024). Examining variation in the relationship between disability and physical activity across Australian local government areas. Journal of Public Health Policy, 1-11.

Van Dyke, N., Drinkwater, E., Rachele, J.N. (2022). Improving the accuracy of self-reported height and weight in surveys: An experimental study. BMC Medical Research Methodology, 22(241).

Paine, N., Lowe, M., Rachele, J. N., & Turrell, G. (2022). “I'm definitely not socially excluded!”-Perceptions of social exclusion among Australian government housing residents aged 80 and older who live alone. Journal of Aging Studies, 61, 101011.

Mann, E. M., Heesch, K. C., Rachele, J. N., Burton, N. W., & Turrell, G. (2022). Individual socioeconomic position, neighbourhood disadvantage and mental well-being: a cross-sectional multilevel analysis of mid-age adults. BMC public health, 22(1), 1-10.

Paine, N., Rachele, J. N., & Turrell, G. (2022). Sociodemographic characteristics and social exclusion among the oldest old. Australasian Journal on Ageing. 00:1–10.

Rachele, J. N., Wang, J., Wijnands, J. S., Zhao, H., Bentley, R., & Stevenson, M. (2021). Using machine learning to examine associations between the built environment and physical function: A feasibility study. Health & Place, 70, 102601.

Saghapour, T., Giles-Corti, B., Rachele, J. N., Turrell, G. (2021) A cross-sectional and longitudinal study of neighbourhood disadvantage and cardiovascular disease and the mediating role of physical activity. Preventive Medicine, 147.

Badji, S., Badland, H., Rachele, J. N., Petrie, D. (2021) Public transport availability and healthcare use for Australian adults aged 18-60 years, with and without disabilities. Journal of Transport and Health, 20.

Foster, S., Hooper, P., Burton, N. W., Brown, W. J., Giles-Corti, B., Rachele, J. N., & Turrell, G. (2021). Safe habitats: Does the association between neighborhood crime and walking differ by neighborhood disadvantage? Environment and Behavior, 53(1), 3-39.

Turrell, G., Nathan, A., Burton, N.W., Brown, W. J., McElwee, P., Barnett, A. G,. Pachana, N.A., Oldenburg, B., Rachele, J. N., Giskes, K., Giles-Corti, B. (2020) Cohort Profile: HABITAT – a longitudinal multilevel study of physical activity, sedentary behaviour and health and functioning in mid-to-late adulthood. International Journal of Epidemiology.

Rachele, J. N., Wiesel, I., van Holstein, E., Feretopoulos, V., de Vries, T., Green, C., Bicknell, E. (2020) Feasibility and the care-full just city: Overlaps and contrasts in the views of people with disability and local government officers. Cities, 100, 102650.

Fortune, N., Badland, H., Clifton, S., Emerson, E., Rachele, J. N., Stancliffe, R. J., Zhou, Q., Llewellyn, G. (2020) The Disability and Wellbeing Monitoring Framework: data, data gaps, and policy implications. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Public Health. 4(3) 227-232.

Rachele, J. N., Disney. G., Milner, A., Emerson, E., Krnjaki, L., Kavanagh, A. (2020) Violence and mental health: does disability make a difference? Epidemiology 3(1).

Ghani, F., Rachele, J. N., Loh, V.H.Y., Washington, S., Turrell, G. (2019) Do differences in social environments explain gender differences in recreational walking across neighbourhoods? International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 16(11), 1980

Rachele, J. N., Schmid, C. J., Brown, W. J., Nathan, A., Kamphuis, C. B. M., & Turrell, G. (2019). A multilevel study of neighborhood disadvantage, individual socioeconomic position, and body mass index: Exploring cross-level interaction effects. Preventive Medicine Reports, 14, 100844.

Sugiyama, T., Rachele, J. N., Gunn, L. D., Burton, N., Brown, W. J., & Turrell, G. (2019) Land use proportion and walking: Application of isometric substitution analysis. Health and Place, 57, 352-357

Loh, V. H. Y., Rachele, J. N., Brown, W. J., Ghani, F., Washington, S., & Turrell, G. (2019) The potential for walkability to narrow neighbourhood socioeconomic inequalities in physical function: A case study of middle-aged to older adults in Brisbane, Australia. Health and Place, 56, 99-105

Milner, A., Taouk, Y,. Disney, G,. Aitkin, Z., Rachele, J. N., Kavanagh, A. (2018) Employment predictors of exit from work among workers with disabilities: A survival analysis from the household income labour dynamics in Australia survey. PLOS One

Ghani, F., Rachele, J. N., Loh, V.H.Y., Washington, S., Turrell, G. (2018) Do differences in built environments explain age differences in transport walking across neighbourhoods? Journal of Transport and Health 9, 83-95.

Loh, V. H. Y., Rachele, J. N., Brown, W. J., Washington, S., & Turrell, G. (2018) Neighborhood disadvantage and physical function: the contributions of neighborhood perceptions of safety from crime and walking for recreation. Journal of Physical Activity and Health 15(8), 556-63.

Rachele, J.N., Learnihan, V., Badland, H., Mavoa, S., Turrell, G., Giles-Corti, B. (2018). Are measures derived from land use and transport policies associated with walking for transport? Journal of Physical Activity and Health 15(1), 13-21.

Turrell G, Hewitt, B., Rachele, J.N., Giles-Corti, B., Brown, W.J. (2018). Do active modes of transport cause lower body mass index? Findings from the HABITAT longitudinal study. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 72, 294-301.

Rachele, J.N., Kavanagh, A., Brown, W.J., Healy, A. M., Turrell, G. (2018). Neighborhood disadvantage and body mass index: a study of residential relocation. American Journal of Epidemiology.

Turrell G, Hewitt, B., Rachele, J.N., Giles-Corti, B., Brown, W.J. (2018). Prospective trends in body mass index by main transport mode, 2007 – 2013. Journal of Transport and Health 8, 183-192.

Rachele, J.N., Sugiyama, T., Turrell, G., Healy, A.M., Sallis, J.F. (2018). Automobile dependence: a contributing factor to poorer health among lower-income households. Journal of Transport and Health. 8, 128-8.

Rachele, J.N., Kavanagh, A., Brown, W.J., Healy, A.M., Schmid, C.J., Turrell, G. (2017). Neighbourhood socioeconomic disadvantage and body mass index among residentially stable mid-older aged adults: Findings from the HABITAT multilevel longitudinal study. Preventive Medicine 105, 271-274.

Rachele, J.N., Learnihan, V., Badland, H., Mavoa, S., Turrell, G., Giles-Corti, B. (2017). Neighbourhood socioeconomic and transport disadvantage: The potential to reduce social inequities in health through transport. Journal of Transport and Health 7, 256-263.

Badland, H., Rachele, J.N., Roberts, R., & Giles-Corti, B. (2017). Creating and applying public transport indicators to test pathways of behaviours and health through an urban transport framework. Journal of Transport and Health. 4, 208-215.

Rachele, J. N., Ghani, F., Loh, V. H. Y., Brown, W. J., Turrell, G. (2016). Associations between physical activity and the neighbourhood social environment: baseline results from the HABITAT multilevel study. Preventive Medicine Dec;93:219-225.

Loh, V. H. Y., Rachele, J. N., Brown, W. J., Washington, S., & Turrell, G. (2016) Neighborhood disadvantage, individual-level socioeconomic position and physical function: a cross-sectional multilevel analysis. Preventive Medicine 89, 112-120.

Ghani, F., Rachele, J. N., Washington, S., Turrell, G. (2016) Gender and age differences in walking for transport and recreation: are the relationships the same in all neighborhoods? Preventive Medicine Reports 4, 75-80.

Rachele, J. N., Wood, L., Nathan, A., Giskes, K., & Turrell, G. (2016) Neighbourhood disadvantage and smoking: examining the role of neighbourhood-level psychosocial characteristics. Health and Place 40, 98-105.

Rachele, J. N., Washington, T.W., Cuddihy, T. F., McPhail, S. (2016). School-Based Youth Physical Activity Promotion: Thoughts and Beliefs of Pre-Service Physical Education Teachers. Australian Journal of Teacher Education. 41(5), 52-64.

Rachele, J. N., Giles-Corti, B., & Turrell, G. (2016). Neighbourhood disadvantage and self-reported type 2 diabetes, heart disease and comorbidity: a cross-sectional multilevel study. Annals of Epidemiology. 26, 146-150

Rachele, J. N., Washington, T.W., Cuddihy, T. F., McPhail, S. (2016). Adolescent’s perceptions of parents influences on physical activity. International Journal of Adolescent Medicine and Health 29(3).

Rachele, J. N., Kavanagh, A., Badland, H., Giles-Corti, B., Washington, S., Turrell, G. (2015). Associations between individual socioeconomic position, neighborhood disadvantage, and transport mode: Baseline results from the HABITAT multilevel study. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. 69(12), 1217-1223

Rachele, J. N., Jaakkola, T., Washington, T.W., Cuddihy, T. F., McPhail, S. (2015). Adolescent Self-Reported Physical Activity and Autonomy: A Case for Constrained and Structured Environments? Journal of Sports Science and Medicine 14, 568-573

Rachele, J. N., Cuddihy, T. F., Washington, T. S., McPhail, S. (2014). The association between adolescent self-reported physical activity and wellness: the missing piece for youth wellness programs. Journal of Adolescent Health 55(2), 281-6.

Rachele, J. N., Cuddihy, T. F., Washington, T. L., McPhail, S. M. (2014). Reliability of a wellness inventory for use among adolescent females aged 12-14 years. BMC Women’s Health 14(87).

Rachele, J. N., Washington, T.L., Cockshaw, W., Brymer, E. (2013). Towards an Operational Understanding of Wellness. Journal of Spirituality, Leadership, and Management 7, 3-12

Rachele, J. N., Cuddihy, T. F., Washington, T.L., McPhail, S. (2013). Reliability of the 5 Factor Wellness Inventory Amongst Adolescent Males. Journal of Individual Psychology 69(2), 118-132

Barwais, F., Washington, T. L., Cuddihy, T. F., Rachele, J. N. (2013) ActiGraph GT3X determined variations in “free-living” standing, lying, and sitting duration among sedentary adults. Journal of Sport and Health Science 2(4) 249-256