Dr. Wendy Yajun HUANG

Award Citation

Dr Wendy Huang is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sport, Physical Education and Health and the Director of Dr Stephen Hui Research Centre for Physical Recreation and Wellness in Hong Kong Baptist University. Her research area is physical activity, sedentary behavior and health for children and youth, with a recent focus on epidemiology and intervention of 24-hour movement behaviors.

Dr Huang was supported by Hong Kong - Scotland Partners in Post Doctoral Research from Research Grants Council in 2013 and was awarded Health and Medical Research Fund Research Fellowship Scheme from Health Bureau in 2017.

The funded RFS project will develop a first holistic Report Card on active healthy lifestyle for children under 5 years of age and evaluate its immediate impacts based on a knowledge translation model adapted from the Active Health Kids Global Alliance. This three-phase project expands the existing, well established Active Healthy Kids Report Card by targeting younger age groups and covering the whole-day time frame. It is built on established network and her experience as co-leader of the Active Healthy Kids Hong Kong Report Card for school-aged children and adolescents since 2016.

This project is expected to have significant international and local impact, including capacity building, networks formulating, knowledge gaps identification, and partnerships establishment. The developed report card will provide an advocacy tool to help multiple sectors (e.g., academia, education, health, recreation, policy, etc.) work together to improve health status through an active lifestyle for the early years. The experience gained and the approach developed from this project will be useful to fertilize cross-country collaborations.