Team Lithuania released their 2022 Report Card on Physical Activity for Children and Youth on August 3, 2022! The grades have been audited by the AHKGA team and will be included in the Global Matrix 4.0. Please join us in congratulating Lithuania’s Report Card Team on their...
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...
Team Denmark released their 2022 Report Card on Physical Activity for Children and Adolescents at a national conference on June 22, 2022. The grades have been audited by the AHKGA team and will be included in the Global Matrix 4.0! To see the grades and find...
Team Thailand has recently released their 2022 Report Card on Physical Activity for Children and Youth. The grades have been audited by the AHKGA experts and will be included in the Global Matrix 4.0! To see the grades and find more information, please visit the following...
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...
Dr. Salomé Aubert made a presentation as a plenary speaker at the HBKU 9th Global Social Sciences Graduate Student e-Conference (Hong Kong, China) today, April 28, 2022. Her talk was titled “Children’s physical activity as a key for healthy, sustainable, and inclusive societies: potentials, realities,...
Team Uruguay has recently produced a video about the Global Matrix project and Uruguay's participation. Congratulations! The video is available in Spanish with English subtitles, please use the link below to watch. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyHpp0X3PvU. [su_youtube url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyHpp0X3PvU"] ...
On April 21, 2022, team Czech Republic published their 2022 Report Card on Physical Activity for Children and Youth. The grades have been audited by the AHKGA team and will be included in the Global Matrix 4.0! Please join us in congratulating Czech Republic's report card...
On April 8, 2022, team Japan published their 2022 Report Card on Physical Activity for Children and Youth. The grades have been audited by the AHKGA experts and will be included in the Global Matrix 4.0! To see the grades and find more information, please visit...
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...
On March 27, 2022, Team Australia published their 2022 Report Card on Physical Activity for Children and Youth. The grades have been audited by the AHKGA experts and will be included in the Global Matrix 4.0! To see the grades and find more information, please visit the...
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...
Finland has recently launched their 2022 Report Card on Physical Activity for Children and Youth. The grades have been audited by the AHKGA experts and will be included in the Global Matrix 4.0! Please join us in congratulating Finland’s Report Card Team on their success! Finland’s...
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...