Report Card Leaders

Farid Bardid, PH.D.
Farid Bardid (BEd, MSc, PhD) is Assistant Professor (Lecturer) of Health and Wellbeing at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland. He was previously involved in the Active Healthy Kids Scotland Report Card in 2018. His research focuses on health, movement behaviours and movement skills in children and adolescents with a focus on learning and development. This includes work on assessment and monitoring, individual and environmental factors (psychosocial and cognitive aspects), and design and delivery of interventions. He has published over 25 peer-reviewed papers across a range of international journals (e.g., Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, Frontiers in Psychology, and Sports Medicine), with a field-weighted citation impact of 1.96 and h-index of 10 in Scopus (December 2020). He is also a member of the International Motor Development Research Consortium (I-MDRC) and the North American Society of Psychology for Sport and Physical Activity (NASPSPA). As part of a working group of the I-MDRC, he has led a review paper on methods for assessing movement skills in children and adolescents published in Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport (2019). He has also contributed to projects such as ToyBox Scotland (2016-2019) and Skill Acquisition Methods fostering Physical Literacy in Early Physical Education (SAMPE-PE; 2017-2020).

John Reilly, PH.D.
John Reilly (BSc, PhD) is Professor of Physical Activity and Public Health Science at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland. He was previously Professor of Paediatric Energy Metabolism at the University of Glasgow. He led the Active Healthy Kids Scotland Report Cards in 2013, 2016, and 2018. He is a member of the AHKGA Board, with responsibility for external partnerships and European Report Cards. His research includes work on childhood obesity globally (prevalence, surveillance, aetiology, prevention, treatment); public health surveillance of physical activity and sedentary behaviour in children and adolescents globally; physical activity, obesity, and academic attainment. He has published over 340 peer-reviewed papers with a career average field-weighted citation impact of 2.90, h-index (September 2020) of 65 in Scopus and 83 in Google Scholar. He is a founder member and Executive Member of the SUNRISE International Surveillance Study of Movement Behaviours in the Early Years (2017-present). His Knowledge Exchange work includes multiple contributions to WHO guidelines and strategies, e.g. the WHO Ending Childhood Obesity Report (ECHO, 2014-2016), Healthy Life Trajectories Initiative (HeLTI, 2016-2017), and the WHO 2019 Guidelines on Physical Activity, Sedentary Behaviour, and Sleep in the Under 5s. He has also contributed to many national physical activity and movement behaviour guidelines: chaired the UK Health Departments Physical Activity Guidelines for the Under 5s (2017-2019); member of Guideline Development Groups for 24-hour Movement Behaviours in Canada (2016-2019) and South Africa (2017-2018).