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...
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...
You are invited to join the European FitBack network and the FitBack International Conference on September 25, 2021. Please see the invitation from our Slovenian colleagues below: "The Faculty of Sport, University of Ljubljana in Slovenia coordinates the European FitBack network, which supports monitoring child and...
UPDATE 15/06/2021 - The symposium is CANCELED. The University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Sport, Slovenia will be hosting the 10th International Symposium “Youth Sport 2021: Experiences and Future Challenges of COVID-19 Pandemic” in person in Ljubljana and online on September 26th, 2021. The main goal of the...
Mark your calendars! On April 22nd, AHKGA Director Dr. Mark Tremblay, as well as Drs. Margaret Whitehead and Mark Hanson, will present at a free webinar titled “Physical Literacy and the Health and Well-Being of Populations”. To view the program and to register, please visit en.pl-net.dk/webinar-april-22nd....
The Global Observatory for Physical Activity - GoPA! will launch the Second Set of Country Cards on January 27th, 2021! “In 2015, GoPA! produced the first set of physical activity profiles “Country Cards” for 139 countries worldwide and with data up to 2013. After six years...
Dr. Javier Brazo Sayavera (Uruguay Report Card leader and AHKGA Communications Committee Chair) recently presented at a virtual event, “II International Congress on Physical Activity, Education and Public Health,” organized by the Universidad Autónoma de Chile. In his presentation titled "Research on physical activity in...
Dr. Mark Tremblay (President of the AHKGA and Canada Report Card leader) and Dr. Thomas Skovgaard (Denmark Report Card leader) presented a session at the virtual Symposium on Preventing Childhood Overweight and Obesity hosted by the Novo Nordisk Foundation (Copenhagen, Denmark) on October 23rd, 2020. The...
On September 29, 2020 at 1:30 - 3:30 PM (Indonesian time), Active Healthy Kids Indonesia (AHK-I) together with the Active Healthy Kids Global Alliance (AHKGA) and Prodi PGSD Penjas FPOK UPI (PETE for Elementary School) will be hosting a virtual event titled "International Webinar for...
Dr. Salomé Aubert, recent Healthy Active Living and Obesity Research Group (HALO) PhD graduate and AHKGA Board member, is invited to deliver a seminar titled “Need for standardization in the global surveillance of physical activity of children and youth”, which will be broadcast live online on...
Let’s all stay active, healthy and make post COVID-19 a more active society! WHO is taking the third Walk the Talk: The Health for All Challenge virtual this year. In light of COVID-19, Walk the Talk will offer an even more global platform to promote health...
On Wednesday, April 22nd, the whole world united for an on-line PE lesson delivered by a Polish PE teacher. The event was streamed via Facebook and has reached over 50 thousand users. When major sporting events have been cancelled and physical activity as we know...
In an effort to stay active and have some fun the Active Healthy Kids Global Alliance has partnered with V4Sport out of Poland, and other groups to try and set a World Record for an Online Physical Education Class which will be Livestreamed on the...
[su_tabs] [su_tab title="English" disabled="no" anchor="" url="" target="blank" class=""] Please note that the information published here is based on current recommendations (date: March 31, 2020). However, the situation surrounding COVID-19 is constantly evolving and recommendations may be subject to change and may differ between jurisdictions. For the most...
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...