"2nd IAHPEDS World Congress: Symposium by the Japanese Consortium for Global School Health Research (JC-GSHR)"

Reporting day: 　2024/ 7 / 23/ (Year)(Month)(Day)
Reporter: Marie UENO

From Friday, July 5th to Monday, July 8th, the second International Congress of the International Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Dance, and Sport (IAHPEDS) was held at Tokyo Gakugei University.
JC-GSHR organized a symposium titled "Teacher Training for Sustainable School Health and Addressing New Health Challenges in Low- and Middle-Income Asian Countries."
The following four consortium members gave presentations:

・Sachi Tomokawa: "Development and dissemination of Ecohealth education as ESD in Laos"
・Mika Kigawa: "The development of ESD teaching materials on the Double Burden of Malnutrition problems in Japanese teacher training institutions"
・Fumiko Shibuya: "Teacher Training for Sustainable School Health and Addressing New Health Challenges in Low- and Middle-Income Asian Countries: How school health education including CSE in Indonesia"
・Marie Ueno: "Development of teacher training system for school health and health education in Cambodia"

After the presentations, a Q&A session was held, providing a meaningful opportunity for exchanging ideas with the participants. We received feedback from a participant who is the deputy representative of the Health Department of IAHPEDS, expressing a desire to collaborate with us in the future.
It was a valuable opportunity to build international connections in the field of school health.