Several AHKGA members attended the International Society of Behavioural Nutrition and Physical Activity (ISBNPA) 2026 Conference, which was held in Cádiz, Spain, from May 27-30. ISBNPA’s mission is to “stimulate and promote innovative and impactful research in behavioural nutrition and physical activity to improve human and...
Dr. Javier Brazo-Sayavera (AHKGA Secretary and Communication and Knowledge Translation Committee Chair) recently gave an online presentation at Suriname’s National Physical Activity Guidelines stakeholder meeting on November 19th, 2025. The topic was "The role of the environment in physical activity behavior-lessons from the Global Matrix". Congratulations,...
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...
Congratulations to AHKGA members who presented at the 34th Paediatric Work Physiology Conference, which took place from September 9-12, 2025 in Peurunka, Finland, organised by the University of Jyväskylä. The conference provided an excellent opportunity to disseminate and celebrate the best paediatric-focused research. There were...
AHKGA researchers delivered a symposium at the International Congress on Behavioural Nutrition and Physical Activity held in Auckland, New Zealand June 11-14, 2025. The symposium was titled "It just takes a spark to light a fire: Building capacity and understanding of child physical activity in...
Congratulations to Dr. Mark Tremblay and Dr. Justin Jeon on their recent presentation titled "10 year journey of Report Card in Korea: It's implications and impacts"! Keep up to date with AHKGA and Report Card-related presentations here....
Dr. Shawnda Morrison presented to the WHO- Health-Enhancing Physical Activity (HEPA) Europe - Environment working group, which focuses on Environmental Approaches to HEPA in the European region, her presentation was titled "AHKGA Introduction to HEPA". Dr. Morrison presented an overview of the AHKGA Global Matrix process...
Congratulations to Dr. Javier Brazo-Sayavera on his recent virtual presentation to the postgraduate program at Santa Cruz do Sul University in Brazil entitled Global Surveillance of Physical Activity in Children and Adolescents! Javier also shared insights from the Global Matrix initiative during his presentation. Brazo-Sayavera,...
Professor Yolanda Demetriou (Germany) recently gave an invited talk about the 2022 German Report Card at the 11th MEDICA MEDICINE + SPORT CONFERENCE in Düsseldorf, Germany. Congratulations, Yolanda! Demetriou, Y. Findings of Germany’s 2022 report card on physical activity for children and adolescents. 11th MEDICA...
Scotland Report Card Co-Leader Professor John J Reilly has recently delivered an oral presentation at the Euro Cities Network Conference held in Glasgow, Scotland on October 24-25, 2023. The presentation was titled “Inequalities in child & adolescent obesity and physical activity in Glasgow” and included...
Team Montenegro recently delivered a poster presentation titled "The Montenegrin 2022 Report Card on Physical Activity for Children and Youth" at 19th IUAES-WAU World Anthropology Congress 2023, held on 14th – 20th October 2023 in New Delhi, India. Citation details and an image of the...
AHKGA Vice President Dr. Salomé Aubert has recently made an online guest presentation titled “AHKGA Global Matrices and Report Cards lessons learned from successful countries” at the Malaysian Association for the Study of Obesity (MASO) 2023 Scientific Conference (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia). A summary of the...
Slovak Report Card Country Leader Ass. Professor Peter Bakalár recently delivered an oral presentation titled “Physical Activity in Childhood and Adolescence: The Experiences from Global Matrix 4.0 Project and HBSC Study in Slovakia” at 2nd Symposium of the Active Healthy Kids Spanish Network (REIAS) at...
President of the AHKGA Professor Mark Tremblay recently delivered a poster presentation titled "Impact of the AHKGA Global Matrix 1.0 to 4.0 - Building a Legacy of Success" at 33rd Pediatric Work Physiology Conference in Chepstow, Wales. Citation details and an image of the poster...
Congratulations to Prof. Cheng-Kang Chang (Taiwan), Dr. Wendy Huang (Hong Kong), Dr. Agus Mahendra (Indonesia), Dr. Dyah Anantalia Widyastari (Thailand), Asst. Prof. John Guiller Realin (Phillippines), Dr. Eun-Young Lee (South Korea), Dr. Asad Khan (Bangladesh), Professor Chiaki Tanaka (Japan), Dr. Falk Mueller-Riemenschneider (Singapore), Dr. Narayan...
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...
Dr. Salomé Aubert made a presentation at the OECD Webinar Series "Ask an expert: How can we support 21st Century Children’s physical health?" today, July 19, 2022. Salomé's talk was titled “Children’s physical activity, a key for healthy children and sustainable societies: potentials, realities, and priorities”...
AHKGA President Dr. Mark Tremblay has recently delivered an invited eminence lecture (virtual) at the Faculty of Sport and Health Education, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia. Mark's talk was titled "Powering the movement to get kids moving – a global imperative" and included an overview of AHKGA...
Lebanon's Report Card team leader Patrick Abi Nader has recently made a presentation titled "The 2022 Physical Activity Report Card for Lebanese Children and Youth: Encouraging Movement in Times of Hardships" at the International Society of Behavioural Nutrition and Physical Activity Annual Conference. Citation details...
AHKGA South American Representative Silvia Gonzalez has recently made a presentation titled "Active transportation surveillance in the low- and middle-income countries participating in the Global Matrix 3.0" at the International Society of Behavioural Nutrition and Physical Activity Annual Conference. Citation details and the abstract are below. Congratulations Silvia...
On April 8th, 2022, Uruguay's Report Card Leader Dr. Javier Brazo-Sayavera participated in the 11th Forum of Physical Activity and Health Sciences at the University of Guanajuato in Leon, Mexico. The title of his presentation was "The Report Card on Physical Activity Indicators in Children and...
South Korea’s Report Card team has just delivered three presentations at the National Sport Medicine Conference (Seoul, South Korea) on the following topics. Academic committee symposium 1- Physical activity status of Korean children and adolescents and international comparison (Chair: Professor YeonSoo Kim) Dr. Jung-Woo Oh: Changes in...
2021 Active Healthy Kids Scotland Report Card's theme in 2021 was inequalities in report card indicators and this led to an invitation to present the findings in the Scottish Parliament. On February 1st 2022, Dr. Avril Johnstone from the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit,...
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...
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...