Steven Blair

Steven Noel Blair (July 4, 1939 – October 6, 2023) was an American exercise scientist. He has been a tenured professor in the Department of Exercise Science and Epidemiology and Biostatistics in the University of South Carolina's Arnold School of Public Health since 2006. He previously worked at the Dallas, Texas-based Cooper Institute, of which he was president and CEO from 2002 to 2006. He is known for his research on the health benefits of physical exercise. A 2005 ''New York Times'' article described Blair as "one of the nation's leading experts on the health benefits of exercise". Provided by Wikipedia