The World Health Organization (WHO) will host a global launch webinar on new estimates of adolescent physical activity, to be published in The Lancet Global Health. The findings will provide the first major update since 2016, offering an important picture of progress, persistent inequalities, and...
AHKGA Secretary Javier Brazo Sayavera attended the II Portuguese Seminar on 24-Hour Movement Behaviours: The Sunrise Portugal Project was held on November 3 & 4, 2025, at the Faculty of Sports, University of Porto (FADEUP). The event brought together researchers, students, educators, and health professionals...
You may remember when people smoked in restaurants and recycling programs didn’t exist. But in the last 35 years, the popularity of smoking and recycling in Canada has drastically changed. This shift is thanks to awareness campaigns, policies and legislation working together to alter the social...
The International Society of Behavioural Nutrition and Physical Activity (ISBNPA) 2025 Conference is happening in Auckland, New Zealand, from June 11-14, 2025! This global event brings together experts to share insights on nutrition, physical activity, and health. The Active Healthy Kids Global Alliance (AHKGA) will be...
FitBack held a webinar titled "FitBack Toolkit for Educators: Boosting Physical Literacy Through Fitness Monitoring" on March 13th 2025. The FitBack Erasmus+ project has significantly advanced the global space on children's physical fitness testing and health feedback. Established in 2020, our consortium, now with over 40...
The International Society for Physical Activity and Health (ISPAH) 2024 Congress will take place on October 28-31, 2024 in Paris, France. The theme of the event is “Accelerating policy and practice to ensure physical activity for all”. For more information, please visit the congress website. The...
On Thursday, July 4th, 2024, Dr. Salomé Aubert (AHKGA Vice-President and Publications Committee Chair) and Dr. Richard Larouche held a webinar on Zoom titled "Improving the Global Matrix methodology: Current and future projects". The webinar included: Announcements Current and upcoming projects Dr. Larouche presentation on...
Join us for the fourth webinar from the 2023-2024 series titled "Improvement of the Global Matrix methodology: current & future projects" on July 4, 2024 at 2pm (GMT+2/Paris time)! This webinar will be held synchronously via Zoom and will feature a series of current and...
On May 21st, 2024, the AHKGA held a webinar to celebrate its 10th anniversary, which included a presentation by Dr. Javier Brazo-Sayavera (Secretary and Communications Committee Chair), Dr. Salomé Aubert (Vice-President and Publications Committee Chair) and Dr. Mark Tremblay (President). The webinar reviewed: Timeline: where...
Today, May 21st, 2024, the Active Healthy Kids Global Alliance (AHKGA) is celebrating its 10th Anniversary! The AHKGA was established in 2014 with a mission to power the global movement to get kids moving through thought leadership, knowledge translation and mobilization, capacity building, and advocacy. This is facilitated...
We are thrilled to invite you to a webinar marking the 10th Anniversary of the AHKGA on May 21st at 8:00 am (Eastern time). This webinar aligns with the release date of the first Global Matrix ten years ago, making it a special occasion for...
On April 9 and 10, the AHKGA held a webinar titled "Global Matrix 5.0: general information and funding seeking strategies", which included a presentation by Dr. Mark Tremblay (AHKGA President), Dr. Salomé Aubert (AHKGA Vice-President) and a discussion with Report Card team leaders and members....
The Active Healthy Kids Global Alliance (AHKGA) has resumed the series of webinars to discuss topics of common interest related to the Global Matrix 5.0. The webinars will be conducted via Zoom and will feature a presentation by AHKGA speakers (15-20 min) followed by interactive...
On 22 June 2023, Active Healthy Kids Malaysia, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) officially launched the Malaysia 2022 Physical Activity Report Card for Children and Adolescents with Active Healthy Kids Global Alliance and Sun Life Malaysia. The primary goal of this gathering was to garner support...
The Active Healthy Kids Global Alliance (AHKGA) and FitBack network recently established a long-term partnership to support physically active lifestyles in children and adolescents around the world. The first FitBack-AHKGA joint webinar on fitness assessment took place on May 24th, 2023. You can review the discussion via the link...
On May 18, 2023, the official launch event for Israel’s first national Report Card on Child and Adolescent Physical Activity was held at Ichilov Medical Center – Tel Aviv together with the Ministry of Health National Council for Health Promotion and National Council for Pediatrics....
The Active Healthy Kids Global Alliance (AHKGA) and FitBack network have recently established a long-term partnership to support physically active lifestyles in children and adolescents around the world. We are pleased to inform you that the first joint activity arising from this partnership will be...
The International Federation of Adapted Physical Activity (IFAPA) will hold an online Para Report Card launch on April 12, 2023! You are welcome to join! The Para Report Cards are a series of national report cards that focused on the available disability data and were conducted...
On March 28th 2023, Team Colombia released their 4th Report Card on Physical Activity for Children and Youth at the Ministry of Health headquarters in Bogotá, Colombia. The main highlights of the results were the important inequalities by gender and socioeconomic level on physical activity indicators....
On December 10-18, 2022, Active Healthy Kids Indonesia and PETE for Primary School Faculty of Sport and Health Education Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia organized a Summer Program for undergraduate students to inform future physical activity leaders in Asia about the Active Healthy Kids Global Alliance methodology...
President of the AHKGA Professor Mark Tremblay recently delivered the following invited lectures at the Chinese University of Hong Kong as part of the 30th Anniversary celebrations of the Department of Sport Science and Physical Education. Active Healthy Kids Global Alliance Global Matrix 4.0 –...
Dr. Arūnas Emeljanovas (Lithuania) recently made the following presentations about the Lithuanian Report Card in Kaunas, Lithuania. Emeljanovas, A. The Lithuanian Physical Activity Report Card for Children and Youth" (Lietuvos Vaikų Ir Jaunimo Fizinio Aktyvumo Ataskaita). Lithuanian Educational Research Association (LERA) conference 2022 (Kaunas, Lithuania), October...
Three Global Matrix 4.0 Report Card leaders Tuija Tammelin (Finland), Shawnda Morrison (Slovenia), and Javier Brazo-Sayavera (Uruguay) attended the FitBack conference 2022, which was held in Ljubljana, Slovenia on May 23rd. Tuija delivered a presentation about fitness assessment in Finland. The Report Card leaders were...
The University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Sport, Slovenia will be hosting the 1st international FitBack conference in-person in Ljubljana and online on May 23rd, 2022. The FitBack conference 2022 will disseminate state-of-the-art knowledge on how to establish an effective physical fitness monitoring system in your region and will...
Argentina Report Card team will be hosting a virtual event titled “Active Healthy Kids Global Alliance: shaping the network in Argentina” on November 18th at 12:30 pm (GMT-3). The event will last approximately 45 minutes, will be held in Spanish, and will have the presence...