Shelley Keating

Associate Professor Shelley Keating is an NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow and Accredited Exercise Physiologist in the School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences at The University of Queensland. Her research focuses on transforming how exercise is prioritised, prescribed, and accessed to improve health outcomes for people with cardiometabolic disease, particularly those with metabolic dysfunction associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) and type 2 diabetes.

She leads a multidisciplinary research program advancing the integration of exercise into standard cardiometabolic care pathways. Shelley has contributed to national and international exercise guidelines for MASLD, and her work features in international clinical guidelines for both MASLD and type 2 diabetes management. Her program is co-designed with clinicians, health services, and people living with MASLD to develop sustainable, meaningful exercise solutions that can be embedded into routine care.