Rate My Professor Sam McCrabb

McCrabb has led influential Cochrane systematic reviews on implementation strategies in schools (2022), interventions to prevent or cease e-cigarette use in children and adolescents (2022, 2023), and healthy eating interventions delivered in early childhood education and care settings for children aged six years and below (2021, 2023). He provided evidence synthesis for the World Health Organization on e-cigarette prevalence in children and adolescents (2021) and Learning Health Systems for prevention (2024), contributed to an umbrella review for the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization on fruit and vegetable consumption (2021), and prepared research briefs for the New South Wales Ministry of Health on implementation of health policies (2021), healthy eating and active living in primary (2021) and secondary schools (2022). His review on internet-based smoking cessation programs (2019) was cited by the Community Prevention Services Taskforce, leading to a recommendation change. Key publications include "Scaling-up evidence-based obesity interventions: a systematic review assessing intervention adaptations and effectiveness and quantifying the scale-up penalty" (Obesity Reviews, 2019), "Internet-Based Programs Incorporating Behavior Change Techniques Are Associated With Increased Smoking Cessation in the General Population: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis" (Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 2019), "Prevalence of electronic nicotine delivery systems and electronic non-nicotine delivery systems in children and adolescents: a systematic review and meta-analysis" (The Lancet Public Health, 2021), and "Strategies for enhancing the implementation of school-based policies or practices targeting diet, physical activity, obesity, tobacco or alcohol use" (Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2022). He received the Amanda Simm Cancer Research Award (2020) and the Hunter Cancer Research Alliance Best Paper Award in Implementation Science and Impact (2020).