Sarah Camhi

Sarah Camhi is a clinical exercise physiologist and physical activity epidemiologist whose educational and research training provides a unique perspective on the relationships among lifestyle behaviors, obesity, and cardiometabolic risk. Her research has examined how physical activity, sedentary behavior, and diet influence cardiometabolic health among individuals with obesity across the lifespan. 

Professor Camhi’s work also explores exercise prescription and physical activity programming in urban populations, students, faculty/staff/librarians through the American College of Sports Medicine’s Exercise is Medicine On Campus (EIMOC) initiative. Her work includes the URBAN Trail, a mindfulness walking trail around campus, as well as evaluation of the USFCA Go Dons Get Fit and Go Move physical activity promotion programs.

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• Physical activity, obesity, and cardiometabolic risk 
• Fitness and health assessment
• Community-engaged research
• Health promotion on university campus
• Mindfulness and physical activity
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• Physical activity epidemiology
• Obesity and cardiometabolic risk epidemiology
• Exercise is medicine
• Mindfulness and physical activity

• Member, College of Arts and Sciences (Sciences) Tenure and Promotion Peer Review Committee (2025-2028)
• Associate Editor, Health & Fitness Journal (2026-present)
• Member, STEM Diversity Committee (2020-Present)
• Member, GoUSF Committee (2020-Present)
• Faculty Co-Advisor, Exercise is Medicine on Campus (2023-Present)

• University of Maryland, PhD in Kinesiology (Physical Activity Epidemiology)
• University of Queensland, MS in Exercise Management (Clinical Exercise Physiology)
• University of Michigan, BS in Kinesiology

• Associate Professor in Exercise and Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Boston (2010-2020)
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, LA (2008-2010)

• Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine (2015)

• Fellow of the American Heart Association (2014)

• Innovation in Community Engaged Teaching Award, University of Massachusetts, Boston (2014)

• Riebe, D., Magal, M., Kaminsky, L. A., Ross, R., Phillips, S. M., Alhassan, S., Arena, R., Behm, D. G., Camhi, S. M., Church, T. S., Evans, E. M., Feito, Y., Faigenbaum, A. D., Heymsfield, S. B., Hillman, C. H., Jankowski, C. M., Konrad, A., Liguori, G., Robinson, L. E., Shanely, R. A., … Garber, C. E. (2026). The Components of Physical Fitness: A Roundtable Statement by the American College of Sports Medicine. Medicine and science in sports and exercise, 58(8), 1827–1850.
• Newsome, A.M., Batrakoulis, A., Camhi, S.M., McAvoy, C., Sansone, J. (Sudock), Reed, R. (2025). 2025 ACSM Worldwide Fitness Trends: Future Directions of the Health and Fitness Industry. ACSM's Health & Fitness Journal 28(6):p 11-25, 11/12 2024.
• Burdick AAV, Camhi SM. (2024). The effects of a guided mindful walk on mental health in university students. Int J Exerc Sci. Apr 1;17(5):590-601. eCollection 2024. PMID: 38860179
• Camhi SM, Debordes-Jackson G, Andrews J, Wright J, Lindsay AC, Troped PJ, Hayman LL. (2019). Socioecological factors associated with an urban exercise prescription program for under-resourced women: A mixed methods community-engaged research project. Int J Environ Res Public Health. Aug 18;18(16):8726. PMID: 34444473 
• Camhi SM, Must A, Gona PN, Hankinson A, Odegaard A, Reis J, Gunderson EP, Jacobs DR, Carnethon MR. (2019). Duration and stability of metabolically healthy obesity over 30 years. Int J Obes (Lond). Sep;43(9):1803-1810. Epub 2018 Aug 29. PMID: 30158567 
• Young DR, Hivert MF, Alhassan S, Camhi SM, Ferguson JF, Katzmarzyk PT, Lewis CE, Owen N, Perry CK, Siddique J, Yong CM. (2016). Sedentary behavior and cardiovascular morbidity and mortality: A science advisory from the American Heart Association. Circulation. Sep 27;134(13):e262-79.