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Welcome to the WHO Collaborating Centre for Physical Activity and Public Health at FAU
The Department of Sport Science and Sport (DSS) at Friedrich-Alexander University (FAU) is one of more than 800 high-ranking academic institutions globally that support the World Health Organization (WHO) in areas such as nursing, occupational health, communicable diseases, nutrition, mental health, chronic diseases and health technologies.
Researchers from the WHO Collaborating Centre for Physical Activity and Public Health are collaborating with Dominik Bantle (league head) and Frank Grimm (head coach of the youth selection team) from the American Football Federation Hesse (www.afvh.de) to explore ways to reduce travel in Flag Footba...
Researchers from the WHO Collaborating Centre for Physical Activity and Public Health have increased efforts to engage the scientific community, policy-makers and sports organisations in discussions on how to promote physical activity in a sustainable way.
In 2023, Karim Abu-Omar (Co-Director of ...
Germany's Federal Ministry of Health published a policy brief "Physical Activity Promotion for Children and Adolescents in Germany".
Sports scientists from the WHO Collaborating Center for Physical Activity and Public Health at the Department of Sport Science and Sport (DSS) were tasked by the ...
Researchers from the WHO Collaborating Centre for Physical Activity and Public Health have published two scientific articles in the European Journal of Public Health. The articles were written in collaboration with staff of the WHO Regional Office for Europe and appear in the journal’s special issue...
The 17th Meeting of the EU Physical Activity Focal Points Network took place in Nice (France) on 30 August 2022. Its goal was to support the alignment of physical activity policymaking and physical activity research in Europe. Scheduled as a pre-conference event to the 2022 Congress of the HEPA Euro...