As the AHKGA has secured some financial support, the AHKGA Board of Directors took the decision to launch a new “AHKGA Fellowship” program – one Fellow per Global Matrix to help build capacity and leadership within the sector. The AHKGA Fellow will provide support for the...
Dr. Salomé Aubert was recently interviewed by the American Sports Institute. The interview was titled "Very Concerning: The Status of Physical Activity Among the World's Children and Youth" and the questions were about the findings from the Global Matrix 3.0, the global physical activity surveillance...
Congratulations to the Report team from Brazil on their recent publications – updated systematic reviews for Brazil’s Report Card! Citation details and summaries of the papers are below. Barbosa Filho VC, Costa RM, Oliveira BN, Castro VH, Silva KS. Prevalence of global physical activity among young...
On December 9th, 2021, Uruguay’s Report Card leader and AHKGA Communications Committee Chair Dr. Javier Brazo-Sayavera made a presentation titled “Global Matrix: School environment as a source of influence of physical activity in children and adolescents” at the III International Congress on Physical Activity, Education...
There has been a lot of media attention given to the recently released 2021 Active Healthy Kids Scotland Report Card. The focus of most of the media reporting was the screen time data. The summary of media coverage is below. Congratulations, team Scotland! Strathclyde University...
Today, Scotland launched their 2021 Active Healthy Kids Scotland Report Card. The grades have been audited by the AHKGA experts and will be included in the Global Matrix 4.0! Please join us in congratulating Scotland’s Report Card Team on their success! To see the grades and...
Israel recently joined the AHKGA Network to participate in Global Matrix 4.0. In developing the national report card the Israeli working group, which includes an interdisciplinary team of policy makers, researchers, medical professionals, and other stakeholders, seeks to formulate recommendations to promote public policy, programs...
Dr. Eun-Young Lee, South Korea Report Card co-leader, was awarded a grant that will allow her to take her graduate students to the 2022 International Society for Physical Activity and Health Congress for the launch of Global Matrix 4.0! Attending this conference will be an excellent opportunity for the...
South Korea Report Card leaders co-authored a paper titled “The current physical activity status of Korean children and adolescents” that was just published in the Journal of Sport and Leisure Studies (in Korean). The abstract of the paper and citation details are below. To full...
DATE CORRECTION: ISPAH 2022 Congress will take place on October 23-26th in Abu Dhabi, UAE. The Active Healthy Kids Global Alliance (AHKGA) is pleased to partner with the International Society for Physical Activity and Health (ISPAH) for the release of the Global Matrix 4.0 in conjunction...
Dr. Salomé Aubert made a presentation at the Paediatric Work Physiology 2021 Symposium (https://www.pwp2021.com/) yesterday! Her talk was about findings of her recent review “Global prevalence of physical activity for children and adolescents; inconsistencies, research gaps, and recommendations: a narrative review” published in the International Journal...
Several AHKGA leaders co-authored a paper titled “Global prevalence of physical activity for children and adolescents; inconsistencies, research gaps, and recommendations: a narrative review” that was just published in the International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity. The Global Matrix 3.0 was one of the...
AHKGA South American Representative Silvia Gonzalez has recently presented at two virtual events: (1) the First Latin American Congress of Physical Activity and Health Research and (2) the International Active Transportation Workshop organized by the MRC Epidemiology Unit of the University of Cambridge. Silvia presented Global Matrix 3.0 data...
The President of the Active Healthy Kids Global Alliance, Professor Mark Tremblay made an invited presentation titled “Active Healthy Kids Global Alliance: Using the Global Matrix Initiative framework to guide COVID-19 recovery" at the Poland Conference on "Healthy, Active Communities - what does it have...
On May 28th, 2021, Chile's Report Card leader Dr. Nicolas Aguilar-Farias made a presentation at the seminar, “Seminário Internacional Sobre Observatórios no Âmbito do Desporto e da Atividade Física,” organised by the Municipality of Almada, Portugal. His presentation was titled "From data to practice: experiences...
On May 24, Basque Country Report Card Team presented their first Report Card on Physical Activity of Children and Youth to the Basque Country Ministers. At the virtual meeting, Ministers talked to colleagues from Basque Universities and international experts, including Dr. John Reilly (Scotland), Dr....
On May 17th, Basque Country published their 2021 Report Card on Physical Activity for Children and Youth. On May 24th, the Report Card will be presented to the Basque Government. Congratulations to the Basque Country Report Card Leader, Mikel Bringas, and team! Click here to access the...
Congratulations to the AHKGA Asian Representative Prof. Stephen Wong (Hong-Kong, Chair of the Forum) and Report Card Leaders Dr. Asad Khan (Bangladesh), Dr. Yang Liu (China), Dr. Wendy Huang (Hong Kong), Dr. Chiaki Tanaka (Japan), Dr. Falk Mueller-Riemenschneiderand (Singapore), Prof. Justin Jeon and Dr. Eun-Young...
A group of researchers from Lithuania used the Global Matrix 3.0 on physical activity for children and youth and human development index data on the 18 European countries and recently published a paper titled "European Countries Ranking and Clustering Solution by Children’s Physical Activity and...
Congratulations to the Wales Report Card team on their recent paper titled "The AHK-Wales Report Card 2018: Policy Measures - is it possible to ‘score’ qualitative data?" that was just published in the Health Promotion International! A summary of the paper is below. To access...
Congratulations to a group of researchers from Europe on their paper, "Global Matrix 3.0 physical activity report card for children and youth: a comparison across Europe," that was just published in the Public Health journal! Citation details, highlights and a summary of the paper are...
AHKGA leaders, Dr. John Reilly (Scotland) and Dr. Mark Tremblay (Canada), wrote an article titled “As schools reopen, will this be the least fit generation of schoolchildren ever?” that was just published in The Conversation. Congratulations! The authors use the Global Matrix 3.0 findings to highlight...
Healthy Active Living and Obesity Research Group (HALO) PhD Candidate Silvia Gonzalez and colleagues just published a paper titled “Profiles of Active Transportation among Children and Adolescents in the Global Matrix 3.0 Initiative: A 49-Country Comparison” in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public...
The Scottish Report Cards have been used extensively in the recently published Glasgow Indicators Report 2020. This is a report on the state of health and wellbeing of children and youth for the Glasgow City Region (GCR) in 2020. "This work builds on the previous GCPH...
A paper titled "2018 Chilean Physical Activity Report Card for Children and Adolescents: Full Report and International Comparisons" was just published in the Journal of Physical Activity and Health. Citation details and a summary of the paper are below. Congratulations, team Chile! Aguilar-Farias, N., Miranda-Marquez, S., Martino-Fuentealba,...