January, 2021
President's message
ISBNPA XChange 2021, an AWESOME conference
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Welcome to 2021! Who is as excited for this year’s ISBNPA XChange as me?! I hope to see you all together again, sharing our unique ideas and findings and learning from each other's complementary perspectives. So I am excited to introduce this year’s theme of our ISBNPA meeting:

“Thinking independently together - Let’s dance around the world!”

As Verna Myers once said, “Diversity is being invited to the party. Inclusion is being asked to dance”.

Most research in our field is based on WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic1) samples, and as a result we end up missing out on the valuable holistic viewpoint that we gain from more inclusive research.
Let’s move beyond WEIRD and take into account viewpoints from AWESOME (All over the World from East all the way to South and all Other Miraculous Experienced) samples.

Let’s think independently while dancing together around the world, linking our ideas together with the ideas of others and incorporating diversity and its inclusion in our everyday lives. Each and every idea makes our collective dance more beautiful and diverse!
With this, I’d like to introduce our three keynote speakers: Shifalika Goenka, Meera Shekar, and Emily Mendenhall. With their expertise and unique perspectives, I‘m sure we will be inspired to think independently and more AWESOME and inclusive.

I look forward to seeing everyone at the meeting and dancing with you all around the world!

안녕!
Mai

1Henrich et al. The weirdest people in the world? Behavioral and Brain Sciences (2010) 33, 61–135


ISBNPA XChange 2021
An AWESOME Conference
AWESOME

That's the word!
ISBNPA XChange 2021 is looking AWESOME (All over the World from East all the way to South and all Other Miraculous Experienced). Keynotes are confirmed and the ISBNPA community is preparing their abstracts with the best and latest research findings.

Keynotes

  • Shifalika Goenke will present on Physical Activity Insecurity (June 8, Asia, Australia & NZ day)
  • Meera Shekar on Nutrition and Food System Transformation (June 9, Africa & Europe day)
  • Emily Mendenhall presentation is focused on Syndemics (June 10, "Americas" day)

Call for abstracts

Share your research in the ISBNPA XChange 2021 by submitting your best research until February 12th, 2021.
Symposia submissions include presentations around a similar topic (this year we accept submissions even when all presentations are from the same group or country).
Individual abstracts include the usual "late-breaking" submissions, so even if you don't have results available you can still submit your best research.
#Dare2Share

Innovative, creative, and out-of-the-box sessions/initiatives are welcomed. ISBNPA XChange 2021 is daring you to submit proposals that you think will better convey your work.

We sought for different session formats, topics, and problem-solving approaches. The visionary #Dare2Share committee will help you develop your idea.

Submit a Dare2Share abstract to the conference HERE.
The 2021 ISBNPA membership includes a free registration for the ISBNPA XChange 2021. 

Following our 2020 initiative, we will offer a free registration for the conference with the 2021 ISBNPA membership. The membership renewal campaign will start soon.

Make sure you get all the benefits of the ISBNPA membership; now with the XChange 2021 registration included.

Join ISBNPA and the ISBNPA XChange 2021 HERE.
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Student & ECR spotlights

Rosemary Walmsley is excited about using device-based measures to look at physical behaviours across the 24 hour day in epidemiological studies. 

Meet Narayan Subedi who is researching implementation and scale-up of a cardiac telerehabilitation intervention.

Webinar

NESI organized an inspiring webinar about physical activity data processing and visualization. Were you not able to attend?

Luckily the recording can be found below or here

Who: Dr. Kelly Mackintosh* | Dr. Tom Stewart**
Affiliation: *Associate professor, Applied sport, Technology, Exercise and Medicine (A-STEM), Swansea University (UK) | ** Senior research fellow, Human Potential Centre, Auckland University of Technology

NESI member feature article
The recently published article of NESI member Brittany Johnson is available here! She studied the influence of physical resources and social supports on primary food providers’ snack food provision.

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