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About ProPass About Propass The Prospective Physical Activity, Sitting and Sleep consortium (ProPASS) ProPASS is an international research collaboration platform focused on cohorts using thigh and wrist-worn accelerometry devices (“wearables”). ProPASS's main scientific aim is to explore the effects of multi-dimensional 24-hour physical activity, posture, and sleep patterns on a wide range of health outcomes. The objectives of the consortium are: To establish a pooled data resource on physical activity, posture allocation, sleep, and health outcomes To develop methods for processing, harmonising, and pooling wearables data To support new international studies to collect wearables data, enabling prospective harmonisation To expand the evidence base of 24-hour physical activity, posture, and sleep to under-represented countries, including LMICs The ultimate goal of the ProPASS consortium as a data resource is to promote collaborative individual participant, and prospective meta-analyses on physical activity, posture, and sleep. At inception in 2017, ProPASS employed a focus on thigh-worn wearables. The tremendous progress in wearables measurement and signal processing standards has provided the opportunity to expand to studies of wrist-worn wearables. In mid-2023, ProPASS initiated the expansion to wrist wearables studies which includes a rigorous program of methodological work on harmonising thigh and wrist captured data. 41 Cohorts 24 Countries 200,000 Sample Size Meet The Team Strategic Leadership Group The Strategic Leadership Group of the research consortium steers its overarching direction, ensuring alignment with its core mission, responsiveness to emerging priorities, and sustained relevance in a dynamic scientific landscape. Prof Emmanuel Stamatakis The University of Sydney, Australia ProPASS Director Prof Mark Hamer University College London, United Kingdom ProPASS Deputy-Director Prof Andreas Holtermann National Centre For The Working Environment, Denmark A/Prof Annemarie Koster Maastricht University, Netherlands Co-Lead - Scientific Events & Partnerships Working Group The Working Group, comprising of core ProPASS collaborators each leading a pivotal workstream, collaboratively drives the development and advancement of the ProPASS consortium and executes strategic decisions made in the Strategic Leadership Group. Prof Emmanuel Stamatakis The University of Sydney, Australia ProPASS Director Prof Mark Hamer University College London, United Kingdom ProPASS Deputy-Director A/Prof Vegar Rangul The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway ProPASS Expansion Team Dr Matthew Ahmadi University of Sydney, Australia Leader - ProPASS accelerometry measurements Dr Jo Blodgett University College London, United Kingdom Leader - Scientific Outputs Prof Lauren Sherar Loughborough University, United Kingdom Dr Andrew Atkin University of East Anglia, United Kingdom Leader - Harmonisation A/Prof Borja del Pozo Cruz Universidad Europea de Madrid, Spain ProPASS Expansion Team Dr Richard Pulsford University of Exeter, United Kingdom Co-Lead - Scientific Events & Partnerships Dr Nicholas Koemel University of Sydney, Australia Leader - Linkage Dr Nidhi Gupta Dr Nidhi Gupta A/Prof Annemarie Koster Maastricht University, Netherlands Co-Lead - Scientific Events & Partnerships Dr Carlos Celis-Morales University of Glasgow, United Kingdom ProPASS Expansion Team Dr. Raaj K. Biswas Co-lead - Analytical Strategy Development John Mitchell Co-lead - Analytical Strategy Development Benefits of Joining ProPASS By joining ProPASS, a cohort will Have 2 x co-authors invited in all ProPASS publications using their dataset. The potential of the resource to reach top journals is illustrated by our recent 2024 cross-sectional data resource publications in Eur Heart J and Circulation Gain free access to the ProPASS resource (currently 200k sample size and growing) to investigate your own projects (subject to application per project and some cohorts might request an access fee) Be supported with protocols, questionnaires, devices and training to support data collection in your study to enable prospective harmonisation of variables and easy integration into ProPASS Be part of the ProPASS network: invited to contribute to all ProPASS events, connected to all ProPASS members Be at the forefront of spearheading the transition of physical behaviour guidelines from self-report-based to wearable device-based evidence Join the first/only consortium of adult wearables Join the first/only prospective harmonisation initiative, i.e. we provide pre-harmonised questionnaires and protocols for data collection to your cohort which makes integration into ProPASS smooth upon finalised data collection Be part of the development of cutting-edge methods of device-based measurements ProPASS Resources The below outlined decision tree will help you navigate which of our two resources your cohort could contribute to. Availability of longitudinal cardiometabolic health outcomes such as blood lipids, blood glucose, blood pressure, BMI, waist-circumference Availability of longitudinal incident disease outcomes such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer or availability of mortality outcomes Availability of linkage via external registers such as mortality records, hospital records, cancer registers Capacity to participate in what we call ‘2-stage meta-analysis approach” outside DataSHIELD: cohort runs script on their end, returns derived estimates to USyd The longitudinal resource could be a) on DataSHIELD, either at the cohort’s server or at the USyd server or b) via the 2-stage meta-analysis approach The cross-sectional pooled resource is based at USyd, requires cohorts to physically share their data, which will be harmonised, processed and pooled Eligibility criteria For inclusion in the longitudinal resource Minimum sample size >500 participants, aged at least 30-35 Desired Accompanying covariates (not all are an eligibility requirement) Possibility for linkage to (any of): EHR (Electronic Health/Medical Records) Mortality registry Hospital admissions and/or discharges General disease registries Cancer registries Medication or pharmacy registry Or at least one of the following: Follow up cohort data collection waves longitudinal cardiometabolic health outcomes (e.g. blood lipids, blood glucose, blood pressure, BMI, waist-circumference) or incident disease (e.g. diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer) or mortality outcomes Optional Health status Chronic conditions (incl. CVD and diabetes) Family history of CVD/T2D/Cancer Medication use (glycemic control/blood pressure/blood lipids) General health status Cardiometabolic outcomes (e.g., blood glucose/blood pressure/blood lipids) Frailty Self-reported physical activity and/or screen-time Sleep disorders Mental health status or cognitive impairment Diet (e.g., 24 hr recall or food frequency questionnaire) Essential Sex Age Height Weight Education Ethnicity Alcohol Smoking Population or community-based studies including occupational studies. Physical activity data from tri-axial thigh-worn or wrist-worn accelerometry in the form of raw accelerometer files (research grade or consumer grade). For the inclusion in the cross-sectional pooled Resource Population or community-based studies including occupational studies. Physical activity data from tri-axial thigh-worn or wrist-worn accelerometry in the form of raw accelerometer files (research grade or consumer grade). Minimum sample size >500 participants, aged at least 30-35 years Desired Accompanying covariates (not all are an eligibility requirement) Essential Sex Age Height Weight Education Ethnicity Alcohol Smoking Optional Health status Chronic conditions (incl. CVD and diabetes) Family history of CVD/T2D/Cancer Medication use (glycemic control/blood pressure/blood lipids) General health status Frailty Self-reported physical activity and/or screen-time Sleep disorders Mental health status or cognitive impairment Diet (e.g., 24 hr recall or food frequency questionnaire) And Availability of cross-sectional cardiometabolic health outcomes such as blood lipids, blood glucose, blood pressure, BMI, waist-circumference Cohorts joining prospectively No data collected yet? No problem! As ProPASS is expanding, we are continuously welcoming new studies. Both with existing accelerometry data and those who haven't started their study yet. We are offering support throughout the whole process including devices, protocols and training. Get in touch to discuss your project and how we can support you. Join ProPASS You can find our questionnaire for prospective harmonisation here: link to document You can find our standard operating procedure here: link to document
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ProPASS Consortium is an international research platform of wearable-based cohorts studies aimed at understanding the health effects of unexplored aspects of physical activity, posture, and sleep. Prospective Physical Activity, Sitting and Sleep consortium An international research platform of wearable-based cohort studies aimed at understanding the health effects of unexplored aspects of physical activity, posture, and sleep. Join ProPASS 41 Cohorts 24 Countries 200,000 sample size About Propass ProPASS in a nutshell To date, ProPASS includes cohorts, from 24 countries, including data from 200,000 participants 41* *Cohorts are at varying stages of integration Harmonisation of 24-hour thigh and wrist-worn wearables Transition to device-based phys ical activity guidelines Secured remote data access and analysis via DataSHIELD Join ProPASS Partnership Partnership between and ISPAH ProPASS has partnered with the International Society for Physical Activity and Health (ISPAH) to address critical gaps in the evidence base for global and national guideline development for physical activity and sedentary behaviour. Click here to read more. ProPASS Publications November 6, 2024 Device-Measured 24-Hour Movement Behaviors and Blood Pressure: A 6-Part Compositional Individual Participant Data Analysis in the ProPASS Consortium READ MORE March 13, 2024 Relationship of device measured physical activity type and posture with cardiometabolic health markers: pooled dose–response associations from the Prospective Physical Activity, Sitting and Sleep Consortium READ MORE February 7, 2024 Device-measured physical activity and cardiometabolic health: the Prospective Physical Activity, Sitting, and Sleep (ProPASS) consortium READ MORE Prev 1 2 3 1 ... 1 2 3 ... 3 Next ECR Award Winners ProPASS Early Career Researcher Awardees We are pleased to announce the winners of the Early Career Researcher Awards of ProPASS consortium. The awardees are joining ProPASS as collaborators. Dr. Richard Pulsford Richard is an early career researcher at University of Exeter (UK) with an interest in physical activity and sedentary behaviour epidemiology and behavioural measurement methodology. Richard studied BSc. Exercise and Sport Science and MSc. Exercise Physiology at Loughborough University (UK) before spending two years working on the first physical activity data collection using accelerometers within the Millennium Cohort Study, at University College London. He then completed a PhD at the University of Exeter (2014) using data from the Whitehall II Cohort Study to understand links between sedentary behaviour and both morbidity and mortality. Following his PhD, Richard was appointed to a faculty position within the University of Exeter’s School of Sport and Health Sciences to teach undergraduate and postgraduate students and continue to develop his research. His current research focus is on how we can capture precise patterns and distributions of habitual physical activity, how and why these patterns can vary, and what this means for health in both the general population and in clinical populations. Richard was also a member of the UK Chief Medical Officers Expert Working Group for the review of the UK public health guidelines for physical activity and sedentary behaviour in 2018. Read more Dr. Li-Tang Tsai Li-Tang Tsai was born in Taipei, Taiwan. She has a background in physical therapy and took both her master and PhD in Gerontology and Public Health, at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. In 2017, she defended her thesis on “Walking, physical activity and life-space mobility among older people”, a work that included accelerometer-assessed physical activity among 174 community-dwelling Finnish older adults. In the same year, she was appointed as postdoctoral researcher in the University of Southern Denmark, where she managed the EU-funded PROMISS project (Prevention of Malnutrition in Senior Subjects in the EU) work package 2. Her main tasks and current research area include (1) harmonizing accelerometer data across five cohorts of older adults across Europe and USA; and (2) coordinating a lab study on 100 older adults (80+) to validate multiple accelerometers worn in different anatomical positions against energy expenditure measured by indirect calorimetry and double-labelled water. She has contributed to 13 papers in the field of gerontology, was awarded for best article by a PhD student from the Finnish Gerontology Research Center in 2016, presented in several international conferences and has been invited as guest lecturer in South Korea and Taiwan. Read more Dr. Gregore Iven Mielke Gregore received his BA in Physical Education (2010), and MSc (2012) and PhD in Epidemiology (2017) from the Federal University of Pelotas, Brazil. Currently, Gregore is a Research Fellow in the School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences, The University of Queensland. With expertise in population-based cohort studies, his research is focused on physical activity and sedentary behaviour, with the goal of creating opportunities for improving public health. Gregore has been involved in a variety of cohort studies, including the HABITAT Study, the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women’s Health (ALSWH) and the Pelotas (Brazil) Birth Cohort Studies. Before moving to Australia in 2018, Gregore had professional experience working on the Coordination of Chronic Non-Communicable Diseases Surveillance and Health Promotion in the Brazilian Ministry of Health. Gregore's research interest is in measuring and understanding inequalities in population health, particularly in relation to physical activity and sedentary behaviour. Read more
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ProPASS Online Satellite Event – ISPAH Congress 2022 Towards the 1st device-based guidelines of physical activity, sedentary behaviour & sleep 2 November 2022
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2020 ProPASS ECR Network Meeting - Project Presentations - Involvement Opportunities The 2020 ProPASS ECR Network Meeting took place on Zoom on 24th of September. We presented the current ProPASS cohorts and provided an overview of ProPASS' work so far. We also discussed potential opportunities for ECRs to be closely involved with ongoing projects of ProPASS. Click here to download the meeting program. We would like to thank all ECRs around the world for attending the meeting. The Second Session Presentations can be downloaded below: Dr Peter Palm - ProPASS Accelerometer Software Development Project Prof Andreas Holtermann & Dr Nidhi Gupta - Surveillance System for Physical Activity, Sedentary Behaviour & Sleep ''SurPASS'' Dr Vincent van Hees - Federated Data Analysis Structure for ProPASS Dr Fabio Franzese - Potential Projects with SHARE Study Data If you would like to be involved in the projects mentioned in the presentations above, please get in touch with us at propass.consortium@sydney.edu.au and send us your expression of interest with your academic CV.
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ProPASS' Annual Meetings 1st Annual ProPASS Meeting Copenhagen October 2018 Learn More 4th Annual ProPASS Meeting Online Meet April 2022 Learn More 2nd Annual ProPASS Meeting Maastricht June 2019 Learn More 5th Annual ProPASS Meeting Online Meet October 2023 Learn More 3rd Annual ProPASS Meeting Online Meet June 2020 Learn More
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The ProPASS consortium: growth, success, challenges and future directions for an international wearables consortium Chair Dr Richard Pulsford Sport and Health Sciences University of Exeter, United Kingdom Speakers Dr Jo Blodgett Institute of Sport Exercise & Health, UCL, and University College London Hospitals NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, London, UK Prof Emmanuel Stamatakis Charles Perkins Centre, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia A/Prof Annemarie Koster Department of Social Medicine, CAPHRI Care and Public Health Research Institute, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands Prof Mark Hamer Institute of Sport Exercise & Health, UCL, London, United Kingdom Dr Matthew Ahmadi Institute of Sport Exercise & Health, UCL, London, United Kingdom Abstract Purpose: To explore the development of a leading international consortium of observational studies of physical behaviours, including its challenges, scientific potential, future directions and long-term goals. Description: The development of international consortia of observational studies of physical behaviours offers unprecedented opportunity to understand links between movement health and disease, and to meet global public health priorities. Since its inception in 2017 the ProPASS (Prospective Studies of Physical Activity, Sedentary Behaviour and Sleep) consortium, has developed at pace to include more 30 large observational studies from 5 continents, and is ideally placed to inform the next generation of physical activity guidelines and promotion. Abstract 1: Vision and potential impact of the ProPASS consortium: securing the longevity of large international physical activity collaborations Speakers: Emmanuel Stamatakis, Mark Hamer Background: The Prospective Physical Activity, Sitting, and Sleep consortium (ProPASS) was launched in 2017 to spearhead the transition to wearables-based evidence for physical activity, sedentary behaviour, and sleep guidelines development. ProPASS currently involves c>100 collaborators and nearly 30 cohort studies. As an international consortium, ProPASS is unique in that it was not set up merely as a data resource, its activities include methodology development, prospective expansion to new cohorts including a formal ISPAH partnership focused on LMICs, and support of Early Career Researchers. Purpose: To outline the scope, vision, and future potential impact of ProPASS, and share with the ISPAH community the lessons learnt during its development. Methods: We will first discuss how ProPASS emerged, its vision and the strategy for achieving it, the challenges faced, and its current and likely future impact. The second part of this session will focus on funding strategy and challenges and will highlight the road ahead for the next 4-5 years when the work for the development of the next WHO Guidelines will likely commence. Results: Despite adverse funding conditions commonly encountered in epidemiological research, ProPASS has grown very fast and is already making an impact in the broader fields of physical behaviour and physical activity. However, its trajectory to date alone is not guarantee of future success. As ProPASS grows so does its breadth of activities and its resource needs. This creates opportunities for more impact but also poses threats on its longevity. Conclusions: Although ProPASS stands on solid foundations, the next 5 years are critical in determining to what extend ProPASS will fulfil its vision. The support of organisations like ISPAH and its community, will likely be critical for its success. Practical implications: We will share with the ISPAH Congress insights and lessons learnt from the ProPASS consortium and highlight future directions. Abstract 2. Key successes from ProPASS consortium: first published papers from six cohorts from our pilot resource Speakers: Joanna M Blodgett, Matthew Ahmadi Background: Here we summarise results from the first empirical papers from ProPASS, published in the last year in the European Heart Journal and Diabetologia. Purpose: We investigated: i) interdependent associations of moderate-vigorous physical activity (MVPA), light intensity PA (LIPA), standing, sedentary behaviour (SB) and sleep with cardiometabolic outcomes; and ii) dose-response associations between activity type (standing, walking, stair climbing, fast walking/running) and cardiometabolic outcomes. Methods: We pooled data from six cohort studies (n>15,000). Raw accelerometer data was re-processed using the ActiPASS software. For aim i, we conducted compositional logistic regression to explore associations between various compositions of time spent in movement behaviors and six cardiometabolic outcomes, and investigate various behavioural reallocation modelling estimates. For aim ii, we employed generalized linear models with splines to investigate dose-response relationships between activity types and each outcome. Results: Aim i) More MVPA and less time spent sedentary - relative to sleeping, standing and light activity - was associated with better cardiometabolic outcomes. Less than 10min/day of reallocation of other behaviours into MVPA was associated with significant improvements in outcomes. Aim ii) Accumulating >5 min/day (z-score= -0.14 [-0.24, -0.03] of stair climbing or >64 min/day (-0.14 [-0.25, -0.02] of walking was associated with more favourable composite cardiometabolic health. Every additional minute of stair climbing up to 12 min/day was associated with a similar rate of change as running for the same time interval. Conclusions: Findings on 24-hour movement behaviours may guide more personalised guidance on how an individual can modify their 24-hour movement for cardiometabolic benefits. Findings on cardiometabolic health and durations of different activities of daily living and posture may guide future interventions involving lifestyle modification. Practical implications: This session will share with the ISPAH Congress audience initial evidence from the ProPASS consortium experience to date and introduce future areas of research. Practical implications: This session will share with the ISPAH Congress audience initial evidence from the ProPASS consortium experience to date and introduce future areas of research. Abstract 3. New directions and emergent findings from the first ProPASS resource Annemarie Koster, Joanna M Blodgett, Matthew Ahmadi Background: The health benefits of moderate to vigorous physical activity and sleep are well-described. Much less is known about the patterns of physical activity and health and in particular the potential health benefits of very short activity bouts in daily living. Further, fewer studies have investigated the full spectrum of daily movement behaviours (including sleep) and assess their interdependencies on health outcomes. Purpose: In this session we present results from ongoing analysis from the ProPASS consortium on the i) association between activity micropatterns and ii) sleep duration and regularity with cardiometabolic outcomes; iii) compositional individual participant data analyses on sedentary behaviour, sleep, standing, walking (light and fast) and exercise-like behaviours with blood pressure. Methods: In the first ProPASS recourse we harmonised data from over 15,000 participants across six international cohort studies. Outcomes included body mass index, waist circumference, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, total cholesterol, triglycerides, HbA1c, systolic blood pressure and diastolic blood pressure. Results: We will use generalised linear models with splines to examine dose-response associations between micropatternns of physical activity (aim i) and sleep (aim ii) with cardiometabolic outcomes. We will conduct compositional data analysis to examine associations between different compositions of time spent in movement behaviours and each blood pressure outcome, including examining minimal and optimal reallocation of time between behaviours (aim iii). Conclusions: These studies will provide insight into associations of novel aspects of physical behaviour and health and how reallocating time in one behaviour by another behaviour affects health. Practical implications: This session shows the scientific value of the first ProPASS resource for novel research on physical behaviour and health.
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ProPASS ECR Webinar Series Analytical methods for evaluating physical behavior 16 November 2021 View Implementation of thigh worn acccelerometry 24 November 2021 View Harmonisation methods for accelerometry consortia 2 December 2021 View
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ProPASS Events ProPASS Symposium Read more about the ProPASS symposium at the 10th ISPAH Congress in Paris here. View ProPASS Annual Meetings Read more about ProPASS' annual meetings here. View Satellite Event - ISPAH Congress 2022 Read more about the 2022 ISPAH Congress here. View ProPASS ECR Webinar Series Watch about the ECR Webinar Series here. View ProPASS ECR Network Meeting Read more about the ECR Network Meeting here. View
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1st Annual ProPASS Meeting Copenhagen - October 2018 The 1st ProPASS Annual Meeting took place in Copenhagen on 11 and 12 October 2018. Click to download the workshop Program. 2nd Annual ProPASS Meeting Maastricht - June 2019 The 2nd ProPASS Annual Meeting took place in Maastricht on 28 and 29 June 2019. Click to download the Meeting Program. Meeting Presentations Andreas Holtermann, Kerstin Bach, Nidhi Gupta: Can accelerometers provide all information on physical activity, postures and sleep we need? Andy Atkin: Harmonisation of non-accelerometer data in large consortia Early Career Researcher Presentations: Richard Pulsford: Gregore Iven Mielke: Li-Tang Tsai: Johan Van Soest Personal Health Train 3rd Annual ProPASS Meeting - June 2020 The 3rd ProPASS Annual Meeting took place on 15-16 June 2020 as a two half-day online event. We were pleased to host nearly 400 people from all over the world. Please find some of the recorded sessions from the meeting below: DAY 1 Prof Manos Stamatakis: Opening and Welcome Dr Aiden Doherty: Can Machine Learning Help Identify New Health-Relevant Signals from Large Accelerometer Datasets Prof Malcolm Granat: ProPASS - International Society for the Measurement of the Physical Behaviour (ISMPB) Collaboration Gregore Iven ProPASS Task Groups Presentations Dr Peter Palm & Dr Pasan Hettiarachchi - ProPASS Accelerometer Data Processing Software Prof I-Min Lee - Informing the Next Set of Physical Activity Guidelines for Public Health with Device-Based Studies: How will Data Change the Landscape? DAY 2 Prof Andreas Holtermann - Occupational Physical Activity & Health: The Emergence of the Physical Activity Paradox Dr Dot Dumuid - Compositional Data Analysis of Physical Activity, Sitting and Sleep in Longitudinal StudiesProf Malcolm Granat ProPASS ECR Network Session A/Prof Annemarie Koster - Adding Capacity to the ProPASS consortium: The Maastricht Study Example Dr Rick Troiano - Opportunities and Challenges for Device-Based Physical Activity Surveillance Prof Adrian Bauman & Prof Manos Stamatakis - Closing Remarks 4th Annual ProPASS Meeting - April 2022 The 4th ProPASS Annual Meeting took place on 27-28 April 2022 as a 2 half-day online event. We were proud to announce that this Annual Meeting was co-hosted with the International Society for Physical Health (ISPAH) . In 2022, the theme of the event was the development and expansion of large international consortia of wearables and cohort studies. Click to view the conference program. Sharing the experience: setting up and expanding large international consortia of wearable devices Keynote speakers & discussants included: - Professor Fiona Bull | WHO - Professor Pedro Hallal | Federal University of Pelotas / Editor in Chief (J Phys Act Health) - Professor Jasper Shipperijn | ISPAH President, and University of Southern Denmark, Denmark Associate Professor Karen Milton |ISPAH President-elect, and University of East Anglia, UK -Dr Bronwyn Clark | International Society for the Measurement of Physical Behaviour (ISMPH) President, and University of Queensland, Australia - Professor Anthony Okely | University of Wollongong, Australia - Professor Andreas Holtermann | National Research Centre for the Working Environment, Denmark - Dr Becca Wilson | University of Liverpool, UK - Dr Isabel Fortier | Maelstrom Research, Mc Gill University, Canada PROPASS 5th Annual Meeting -10,11 October 2023 The Prospective Physical Activity, Sitting and Sleeping Consortium (ProPASS) 5th Annual Meeting took place on 10–11 October 2023 as an online two-day event, with the general theme of International wearables consortia: Novel Insights and New Directions. The event was a success with over 280 people registering. Speakers and contributors included: Associate Professor Christina Bjørk Petersen, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark Professor Tim Chico, University of Sheffield , UK Professor Alan Donnelly, University of Limerick, Ireland Professor Jason Gill, University of Glasgow, UK Professor Robert Harle, FitBit/University of Cambridge, UK Dr Laura Karavirta, University of Jyväskylä, Finland Associate Professor Joanne McVeigh, Curtin University, Australia Professor Lisa Micklesfield, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa Associate Professor Karen Milton, University of East Anglia, UK Dr Peter Johansson, Uppsala University Hospital, Sweden Professor Sari Stenholm, University of Turku, Finland Dr Tessa Strain, University of Edinburgh, UK Professor Aiden Doherty, University of Oxford, UK Professor Mark Tully, Cancer Research UK, and Ulster University, UK Professor Stephanie Prince Ware, Public Health Agency of Canada, and University of Ottawa, Canada Day 1 Day 2