Health education and promotion | Physical activity | High-level regional forum on a life course approach to promoting physical activity, 24–25 February 2014
High-level regional forum on a life course approach to promoting physical activity, 24–25 February 2014

Programme

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Day one: Monday, 24 February 2014

08:00–09:00

Registration

Opening ceremony

09:00–09:40

Opening ceremony

First plenary session: Promoting physical activity - priorities for action

09:40–09:50

Physical inactivity: a public health issue

Dr Timothy Armstrong

09:50–10:00

Physical inactivity around the globe: evidence for action

Professor Fiona Bull

10:00–10:10

Current response to promoting physical activity in the Eastern Mediterranean Region

Dr Haifa Madi

10:10–10:20

Challenges and opportunities to promoting physical activity in the Eastern Mediterranean Region

Dr Jassem Ramadan

10:20–10:40

Plenary Discussion

10:40–11:00

Coffee Break

Second plenary session: Learning from successful international initiatives

11:00–11:10

Initiatives of physical activity promotion in Finland

Dr Pekka Oja

11:10–11:20

Agita Brazil

Dr Deborah Malta

11:20–11:30

The US National Physical Activity Plan: Make the Move

Dr David M. Buchner

11:30–11:40

All parties commission to promote physical activity in the UK

Dr William Bird

11:40–12:00

Plenary Discussion

Third plenary session: Building on promising regional initiatives

12:00–12:10

Dubai Pulse: A multi component initiative to promoting physical activity

Dr Ahmed Al Sherif

12:10–12:20

Promoting physical activity in urban settings

Dr Meysam Amrodi

12:20–12:30

Developing a national physical activity plan: the Kuwait example

Dr Jassem Ramadan

12:30–12:40

Implementing physical activity initiatives: the example of Saudi Arabia

Professor Hazzaa M. Al-Hazzaa

12:40–13:00

Plenary Discussion

13:00–13:30

  • Launch of the document: Promoting physical activity in the Eastern Mediterranean Region through a life-course approach
  • Presentation by Raha Moharrak on Summiting Mount Everest

13:30–14:30

Lunch

Parallel session I: Experiences, challenges and priorities - moving into action

14:30–14:45

Introducting parallel sessions and group work

Professor Fiona Bull and Dr Faten Ben Abdelaziz

14:45–16:15

Tracks

Sports

Health care

Urban design and transport

Education settings

Worksite

Communication and mass media action

16:15–16:30

Coffee Break

Fourth plenary session: Reporting on outcome from parallel session I

16:30–17:30

Reporting on outcome from parallel session I

Track presentations by moderators

19:00–21:00

  • Dinner event
  • Launch of the regional network for physical activity
    • Presentation by Raha Moharrak on Creative approaches to connecting youth through physical activity

Day two: Tuesday, 25 February 2014

Parallel session II: Developing national action to promote physical activity

08:30–09:00

Developing national plan of action for physical activity promotion and introducing parallel session II

Professor Fiona Bull

09:00–10:30

Tracks

Sports

Health care

Urban design and transport

Education settings

Worksite

Communication and mass media action

FIFTH PLENARY SESSION: reporting on outcome from parallel session II

10:30–11:30

Reporting on outcome from parallel session II

Track presentations by moderators

11:30–12:00

Coffee break

Sixth plenary session: Communicating for mass mobilization

12:00–13:00

Mass media interventions to promote physical activity

Professor Adrian Bauman

13:00–14:00

Lunch

Closing session: Moving forward

14:00–15:30

  • Discussing recommendations and key considerations
  • Endorsing a call to action for increasing physical activity in the Eastern Mediterranean Region

15:30–16:00

Closing remarks