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ASPA 2024 Annual Conference (Perth, Western Australia)
Our team recently presented at the Asia-Pacific Society for Physical Activity (ASPA), showcasing a range of research on public health priorities related to lifestyle behaviors, disease-prevention, and mental well-being. Findings were drawn from longitudinal cohorts and randomised controlled trials, using data from passive monitoring via smartphones and wearables and/or self-reports including EMAs to offer actionable insights for improving public health.
Key presentations included:
Birth cohorts:
- Screen time trajectories in the first decade of life: Singapore GUSTO cohort by Associate Professor Falk Müller-Riemenschneider (Regular Oral)
- Changes in proportion of children meeting the international 24-hour movement guidelines: A longitudinal analysis of data from pre-school to adolescence by Dr. Sarah Tan (Feature Presentation)
- Sex-specific longitudinal associations of movement behaviours with whole-body adiposity and abdominal adiposity in school-aged children: A compositional data analysis approach by Dr. Natarajan Padmapriya (Regular Oral)
- Patterns and predictors of physical activity and sedentary behaviours in pre-school aged children in Singapore by Dr. Natarajan Padmapriya (Regular Oral)
University student cohorts:
- Exploring smartphone usage patterns among university students in Singapore: app-based insights by Ms. Chen Mingyue (Regular Oral)
- Screen viewing patterns and their association with mental wellbeing and psychological distress: A crosssectional study amongst university students by Ms. Chen Mingyue (Regular Oral)
- Movement and dietary behaviours and mental health among university students by Ms. Zheng Shenglin (Regular Oral)
- Prospective associations between 24-hour movement behaviours and mental well-being and psychological distress among university students by Ms. Chua Xin Hui (Regular Oral)
- The influence of social support on university students’ physical activity engagement: The Health@NUS study by Dr. Sarah Tan (Short Oral)
Digital interventions:
- Initial learnings from the LvL UP intervention: A sequential, multiple assignment, randomised controlled pilot trial by Ms. Zheng Shenglin (Regular Oral)
We are proud to contribute to the ongoing dialogue on improving physical activity and well-being in our communities and look forward to the next steps in translating these findings into real-world impact!
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ISBNPA 2023 Annual Meeting (Uppsala, Sweden)
PANDA was well represented at ISBNPA 2023 – 7 of our members attended and delivered 9 presentations (7 orals, 2 posters (included below)). Some of the highlights from our time in Uppsala Sweden are included below.
Also, a warm congrats to Sarah who won the Best Presentation Award for the Children and Families category with her presentation on Correlates of Adherence to 24-hour Movement Guidelines Among Children in Singapore Aged 10 Years.
8th ISPAH Virtual Congress (Vancouver 2021)
ISBNPA 2019 Annual Meeting (Prague, Czech Republic)
Here are some of the highlights with our expanding PANDA team at the 2019 conference held in Prague! A hearty congratulations to Dr Nick Petrunoff for receiving the Best Oral Presentation (SIG: Policy and Environments) and to all who have presented at the conference!
Feel free to take a look at the posters presented during the ISBNPA 2019 conference:
- Understanding the influence of the social environment on food and activity choices of Singaporean young adults
- Taste, branded characters, events, & health claims: The food industry’s favourite digital marketing techniques in Singapore
- How palatable are government actions to reduce consumption of sugary drinks in Singapore?
- Developing a tool to measure the healthfulness of the hawker food environment: The Food Environment Assessment in Singapore Tools (FEAST) study
- Evaluating a national level programme to improve eating behaviors at institutes of higher learning: Design and preliminary results
- Validating heart-rate measures of two activity trackers in a laboratory and free-living setting
- Understanding determinants of healthy lifestyle behaviors among older children
- Feasibility and acceptability of a web-based application for assessing multiple-component behaviors in older children
50th Asia-Pacific Academic Consortium for Public Health (APACPH) Conference
Dr Müller, Ms Tan and Prof Bruce Maycock, Secretary-General of APACPH and professor of public health at Curtin University.
On 15 September 2018, at the 50th APACPH Conference in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia, Ms Tan Sok Teng, Research Associate, was conferred the Young Investigator Traveller’s Award and Dr Andre Matthias Müller, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, received the Best Oral Presentation Award. Congratulations, Ms Tan and Dr Müller!
(Excerpt from: https://sph.nus.edu.sg/news-events/news/congratulations-ms-tan-sok-teng-and-dr-andre-m%C3%BCller-your-awards-50th-apacph)
ISBNPA 2018 Annual Meeting
Here are some highlights from our fellow PANDAs who attended the conference! Congratulations on your oral and poster presentations!
Last updated Feb 29, 2022