Project Background: Globally, inactivity is a pandemic responsible for more than five million deaths annually and is one of the UN’s primary targets to reduce non-communicable diseases (NCDs). In 2012, The Lancet published its first […]

Project Background: Globally, inactivity is a pandemic responsible for more than five million deaths annually and is one of the UN’s primary targets to reduce non-communicable diseases (NCDs). In 2012, The Lancet published its first […]
Research Impact Summary: These random-effects meta-analyses estimated the population effects of exercise on cognitive outcomes/domains across 15 randomized controlled trials of 899 participants (~43% female) with Severe Mental Illness. In the overall sample, exercise resulted […]
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has an important role in setting the global agenda on public health priorities. WHO member states expect, inter alia, support and guidance from the WHO secretariat on health policy issues. […]
Last week saw the second Physical Activity for Health (PAfH) training school, and the first winter school, hosted and facilitated by the PAfH research cluster. The training course, titled “Physical Activity Policy and Intervention Evaluation […]
APPLICATIONS INVITED FOR Lecturer below the bar in Physical Education Teacher Education, University of Limerick. Lecturer below the bar in Physical Education Teacher Education – Specific Purpose Contract. Salary Scale: €43,255 – €59,234 p.a. pro […]
Research Impact Summary: The relationship between typical school provision of physical education, physical activity and sports was found to be multifaceted. In the context of physical education, the provision of regular physical education class, extension […]
Today’s blog post covers research conducted as part of Policy Evaluation Network (PEN). The research was led by researchers from Amsterdam University Medical Center. Other contributing authors were affiliated with Friedrich-Alexander University, Leibniz Institute for […]
PAfH Winter School 2023 – Keynote Presenters. Following on from a successful Summer School in Sept 2022, PAfH will host their first Winter School in January 2023. The school will provide a unique opportunity for […]
The study of identical (or monozygotic, MZ) twins is a powerful tool to advance our understanding of how physical activity impacts on metabolic diseases such as obesity and diabetes. Since identical twins have the same […]
2PASS4Health project team members pictured at the congress in Tarbes, Dec 2022 Students from the Lycée Marie Curie present at the 2PSS4Health congress Tarbes, a city in the Occitanie region of southwest France, was […]