Meet the speakers participating in the UTHealth Houston GoPA!–GoPE! Summit.
Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health; Department of Pediatrics, McGovern Medical School; Institute for Implementation Science; Center for Health Promotion and Prevention Research; UTHealth Houston, Houston, TX, USA. Co-Chair, Global Observatory for Physical Activity (GoPA!); Co-Chair, Global Observatory for Physical Education (GoPE!).
Division of Pediatric Hospital Medicine; McGovern Medical School; Office of Global Health Initiatives; UTHealth Houston, Houston, TX, USA.
Institute for Implementation Science; Department of Health Promotion and Behavioral Sciences; Center for Health Promotion and Prevention Research; School of Public Health; UTHealth Houston, Houston, TX, USA.
Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science, University of California San Diego, San Diego, USA; Co-Chair, Global Observatory for Physical Activity (GoPA!); Steering Committee Member, Global Observatory for Physical Education (GoPE!).
Department of Health and Kinesiology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA; Co-Chair, Global Observatory for Physical Activity (GoPA!); Steering Committee Member, Global Observatory for Physical Education (GoPE!).
Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School; Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA; Steering Committee Member, Global Observatory for Physical Activity (GoPA!).
Sydney School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health; The Charles Perkins Centre; The University of Sydney, Camperdown, New South Wales, Australia; Steering Committee Member, Global Observatory for Physical Activity (GoPA!).
D. Bradley McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics; MD Anderson Cancer Center-UTHealth Houston Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences; UTHealth Houston, Houston, TX, USA.
Department of Pediatrics, McGovern Medical School; General Academic Pediatrics; Pediatric Population Health Initiative; UTHealth Houston, Houston, TX, USA.
Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health; Michael & Susan Dell Center for Healthy Living; UTHealth Houston, Houston, TX, USA.
Faculdade de Motricidade Humana e UIDEF, Instituto de Educação, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal; Co-Chair, Global Observatory for Physical Education (GoPE!); Steering Committee Member, Global Observatory for Physical Activity (GoPA!).
Faculdade de Motricidade Humana e UIDEF, Instituto de Educação, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal; Co-Chair, Global Observatory for Physical Education (GoPE!).
School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences, Loughborough University, UK.
Physical Activity for Health Research Centre, Health Research Institute, Department of Physical Education and Sport Sciences, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland.
Prevention Research Center; Brown School and School of Medicine; Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA.
Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science, University of California San Diego, San Diego, USA; Mary Mackillop Institute for Health Research, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
School of Public Health and Brown School; Prevention Research Center; Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA.
Department of Kinesiology and Health Education; Center for Research to Community Impact, College of Education; The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA. Steering Committee Member, Global Observatory for Physical Activity (GoPA!). President Elect, International Society for Physical Activity and Health (ISPAH).
School of Health and Life Sciences, Glasgow Caledonian University, Scotland; Department of Movement and Sports Sciences, Ghent University, Belgium; President, International Society of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity (ISBNPA).
Faculty of Physical Education and Sport, Universidade Lusófona, Lisbon; Executive Director, International Society of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity (ISBNPA).
College of Health Solutions, Arizona State University, Phoenix, USA.
Director, Fédération Luxembourgeoise des Associations de Sport de Santé (FLASS); Chair, HEPA Europe Network (2025-2027).
Chronic Disease and Injury Department, Surveillance, Disease Prevention & Control Division, Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA), Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.
Department of Health and Kinesiology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA. Steering Committee Member, Global Observatory for Physical Education (GoPE!).
School of Psychological Sciences, Macquarie University, Australia; School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. Steering Committee Member, Global Observatory for Physical Education (GoPE!).
Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, Munster Technological University, Cork Campus, Ireland. Steering Committee Member, Global Observatory for Physical Education (GoPE!).
Department of Physical Education, Federal University of Sergipe, Brazil; South American Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior Network (SAPASEN).
Department of Didactics of Musical, Plastic and Body Expression, Faculty of Sports Sciences, University of Extremadura, Caceres, Spain.
Active Healthy Kids Global Alliance, Ottawa, Canada.
Canadian Fitness and Lifestyle Research Institute (CFLRI), Canada.
Physical Education Department, Universidad Nacional Experimental Rafael María Baralt, Cabimas, Venezuela; Physical Education Department, Universidad del Zulia, Maracaibo, Venezuela.
Department of Bioscience, Universidad de Cuenca (UCuenca), Cuenca, Ecuador.
School of Physical Therapy, Facultad de Medicina Clínica Alemana, Universidad del Desarrollo, Chile.
Ministry of Health and Wellness, Antigua and Barbuda.
Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, PUCPR, PR, Brazil.
Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences, University of Jyväskylä, Finland.
National Association Women Physical Activity and Sport, Morocco.
Department of Physical Activity and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Liege, Belgium.
Center for Research and Innovation in Public Health, State University of Ceará, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil.
School of Education, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA.
Department of Kinesiology and Community Health, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA.
Physical Activity for Health Research Centre, Health Research Institute, Department of Physical Education and Sport Sciences, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland; Department of Sport Science and Sport, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany.
Global Observatory for Gender Equality & Sport, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Global Observatory for Gender Equality & Sport, Lausanne, Switzerland.
World Cancer Research Fund International; School of Global Health, York University, York, UK.