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...
AHKGA leaders, Dr. John Reilly (Scotland) and Dr. Mark Tremblay (Canada), wrote an article titled “Rewild your kids: why playing outside should be a post-pandemic priority” that was just published in The Conversation. Congratulations, John and Mark! Please click here to read the article in The...
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...
Dr. Salomé Aubert, recent Healthy Active Living and Obesity Research Group (HALO) PhD graduate, is lead author on a paper, “Evaluation of the process and outcomes of the Global Matrix 3.0 of physical activity grades for children and youth” that was just published in the Journal of...
The NASPEM (North American Society for Pediatric Exercise Medicine) meeting will be held this summer in beautiful British Columbia at the Silver Star Mountain Resort. The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child has just celebrated its 30th anniversary and you are invited to attend NASPEM 2020 and...
Active Healthy Kids Global Alliance President Professor Mark Tremblay was in Beijing China on April 16 to deliver an invited talk titled “Global Physical Activity Report Card Grades for Children and Youth” at the Conference on Physical Activity and Health in China 2019 (Beijing, China)....
The Active Healthy Kids Global Alliance (AHKGA) had a very busy, productive and successful year in 2018. While many achievements were made, and are captured in the AHKGA Executive Committee Record of discussion and subsequently in the Board Minutes, below is a brief summary of...
Cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) is widely recognized as a key marker of cardiovascular health, which makes the monitoring of temporal trends a particularly interesting and relevant topic in population health. In light of this and using the same methodological approach used in previous studies of temporal...
Tomkinson and colleagues recently published an editorial in the British Journal of Sports Medicine in response to a previous editorial by Armstrong and Welsman, who criticized the use of field-based tests, such as the 20 m shuttle run test (20mSRT), as a measure of cardiorespiratory...