Eraga Magotti has a deep passion for developing new and innovative ways to holistically improve health and medicine outcomes both domestically and internationally. Specifically by improving the public’s awareness, understanding and application of the principles of exercise, diet and self-care as tools for improving lifestyle and preventing the onset of chronic disease and illness. He hopes to one day see a world where there are 0 deaths caused by non-communicable disease!

Growing up in a household headed by parents who are both medical doctors, Eraga quickly developed a passion for both science and health. This was further reinforced as he took a passion for sports, playing various sports from a young age and maintaining a physically active lifestyle to this day. Through this sporting background and a desire to understand the human body he began to cultivate a passion for sports science, sports medicine, human performance and the use of exercise as medicine; leading to his choice to pursue a Bachelor of Sports and Exercise Science at Western Sydney University (WSU).

At WSU is where Eraga launched Sydney’s first Lifestyle Medicine Interest Group (LMIG) Lifestyle Medicine at Western (LMW) during the lockdowns of 2021 with the aim of empowering healthy student life on campus! LMW sought to do this in two ways by bringing together all health and medical students to conceptualise how to empower ourselves and our future clients/patients using lifestyle medicine practices and by using our collective to outreach to our fellow non-health and medical students of WSU and impact healthy lifestyle behavior in the student and faculty body of WSU. LMW’s flagship event, a 3 part series entitled ‘Dear Stress, Let’s Breakup!’, delivered during the Mental Health Awareness month of October and also in the lead up to final exams, truly encapsulated these key objectives whereby the first two parts themed “Burnout” and “Mindfulness” provided a lighter more educative theme open to the entire student populus and the final part themed “Behaviour Change” was more academically rigorous targeted more specifically at a health orientated audience.

Eraga has also worked in various sporting roles delivering coaching, training and injury prevention / rehabilitation programs to elite (youth development, semi-professional and professional) male and female football athletes across the National Premier Leagues, National Youth Championships and Elite Players Pathways Programs (Matildas, Young Matildas and Talent Support Program [TSP]). Alongside this he has maintained a keen interest in the rapid developments in health technology along with many other technology sectors and involved himself keenly in the Australian and international startups space. He hopes to one day blend his multi-disciplinary interests in health and various sciences and technologies to help improve global health outcomes!

Outside of his professional interests Eraga loves to try out new physical activities and training methods and is constantly challenging himself and changing things up, though you will commonly find him running / sprinting, in the gym, sometimes competing, learning new plant-based recipes, reading a book or poem (maybe even writing a few poems), listening to various kinds of music and absorbing different art-forms or learning some quirky new facts, because as his favourite quote goes…

“All knowledge is good knowledge! It is impossible to say any fragment of knowledge, however insignificant or remote from one’s ordinary pursuits, may not some day be turned to account” – Thomas Henry Huxley

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