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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 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...
The World Health Organization has redesignated the WHO Collaborating Centre (WHO CC) for Physical Activity and Public Health at FAU's Department of Sport Science and Sport until March 2026. The Department was first designated as a WHO CC in 2014, and is one of only three Collaborating Centres that a...
Dr. Karim Abu-Omar was invited by the French Ministry of Sport (under the French Presidency of the Council of the European Union) to the European Parliament for a conference "Towards a green and sustainable deal for sport". He participated as a speaker in the round table on the impacts of sport on...
