✨New pub alert!✨ “Celebrating a decade of the Active Healthy Kids Global Alliance and its Global Matrix initiative” as a service spotlight in British Journal of Sports Medicine (BJSM) ! #GlobalMatrix Congrats to all the team involved! activehealthykids.org/2024/12/05/cel…

🤝Happy to announce that we signed a MoU with PLaTO-Net, a global network of leaders & experts in #Outdoorplay, risky play, outdoor learning and teaching through play. This partnership will enhance the overlapping key goals of both partners! Learn more at activehealthykids.org/2024/12/03/ahk…

🤝We just signed a MoU with Sedentary Behaviour Research Network! SBRN is an organization for researchers & health professionals focusing on the health impact of #SedentaryBehaviour, and work to disseminate evidence to the academic community & to the public. Learn more at activehealthykids.org/2024/12/03/ahk…

Meet our members! Gabriela is the Report Card leader for team Argentina: she is the director of the Physical Activity Lab, University of Flores and works as a policy maker in the Physical Activity &Health Programme at the Ministry of Health. Learn more at activehealthykids.org/2024/12/13/mee…

✨New presentation!✨ Congratulations to Dr. Mark Tremblay and Dr. Justin Jeon on their recent presentation titled “10 year journey of Report Card in Korea: Its implications and impacts”! #GlobalMatrix Learn more at activehealthykids.org/2024/12/13/dr-…

🌟 Wishing you joy, wellness, and movement this holiday season! May the coming year be filled with health, happiness, and countless opportunities to stay active. Cheers to an energetic and thriving 2025! Warm greetings from the entire AHKGA team. 🎄✨ #GlobalMatrix

🎉🌍 New year, new chapter! Let's make 2025 a year of action, health, and positive change for kids and communities worldwide. Together, we can inspire movement, well-being, and connection. 💪💫 From all of us at AHKGA, Happy New Year! 🥳 Here's to a thriving and active 2025! 🌟

New pub alert! Congrats to Iryna Demchenko, Salomé Aubert & Mark Tremblay for their new paper evaluating the process and outcomes of the #GlobalMatrix 4.0 and providing recommendations for future editions. Just published in Journal of Physical Activity & Health! Learn more at activehealthykids.org/2025/01/14/glo…

"The Global Matrix initiative continues to be a powerful force in attracting interest, contributing to scientific evidence, and provoking change at national and global levels." Happy to be part of the #GlobalMatrix project and to have this new paper out!

Yesterday was the 1st day of Spring🌸/Autumn🍂, it wast also the day of a long AHKGA AGM & Board meeting! 🌺We worked hard to update the #GlobalMatrix 5.0 indicators, benchmarks & publication strategy! 🌺We will also publish soon our 2024 AHKGA annual Report - stay tuned!

💥Conference news!🎤 The Active Healthy Kids Global Alliance will be hosting a symposium at the International Society of Behavioural Nutrition and Physical Activity (ISBNPA) 2025 Conference in Auckland, New Zealand! 🇳🇿 activehealthykids.org/2025/03/28/the…

⚠️Beware of scammers!⚠️ There have been phishing emails sent to AHKGA members. 💥Be cautious of emails asking for sensitive details 💥Verify the email address of the sender 💥Don't click on suspicious links/attachments Contact us if you have any question activehealthykids.org/2025/04/02/bew…

I am looking forward to receiving your expressions of interest for contributing to the #GlobalMatrix 5.0 papers. If you don't know what I am talking about, reach out to your Report Card team leader, watch the video, and read the last AHKGA e-blast (circulated yesterday)!

April 6 was World Physical Activity Day! World Health Organization (WHO) recommends that children & adolescents should engage in 60 min of physical activity daily on average. The #GlobalMatrix 4.0 found that only 27-33% meet this recommendation globally. Let’s work to do better! activehealthykids.org/2025/04/07/hap…

Congrats to Scotland Report Card team on the release of their COVID-19 Report Card!👏 They analysed & reported the impact of the pandemic on the physical activity & health of Scottish children & adolescents and the policy response to the pandemic. activehealthykids.org/2025/04/09/the…

Congratulations to Eun-Young Lee and Dr Mark Tremblay for receiving the inaugural Journal of Physical Activity & Health Article of the Year Award for their commentary! activehealthykids.org/2025/04/21/dr-…

Yesterday we celebrated #EarthDay! Let’s take action to reduce physical inactivity and fight climate change! The World Health Organization (WHO) states that shifting to active transportation can significantly reduce air pollution and improve our health. Learn more at activehealthykids.org/2025/04/23/hap…

Can we change the social climate of #PhysicalActivity in Canada? Can we motivate people to get active like we motivated them to quit smoking and/or recycle? To further unpack these questions, participaction developed a public-facing report: activehealthykids.org/2025/05/15/mov…

New AHKGA board meeting! ☀️Main take home message is that we will be working hard all summer/winter to ensure a successful #GlobalMatrix 5.0 development! ☀️🫠 Strategies to audit of the grades & to promote/communicate the future Global Matrix 5.0 findings are almost ready!

And we will also create and host a new webinar to help you with your Report Card development (finding & interpreting data), and anticipate the much we can the writing of the future #GlobalMatrix 5.0 papers!