The Chairs for each working group are as follows:

 

Under 5s – Professor John Reilly

Children and young people (ages 5-18 years) – Professor Russ Jago

Adults (ages 19-64 years) – Professor Marie Murphy

Older adults (ages 65+) – Professor Dawn Skelton

Sedentary behaviour – Professor Ashley Cooper

Communication and surveillance - Professor Nanette Mutrie

 

All Chairs were involved in the previous EWGs in the 2011 CMO Guidelines. Each EWG will have a maximum of eight members plus the Chair and Dr. Charlie Foster. The evidence review needs of each Expert Working Group will be supported by the Central Review Team.

Expert Working Group (EWG) members were selected in January 2018 and represent experts in the physical activity field from around the UK. Members within each group are up to date with the latest evidence and research for their group, ensuring that the process for updating the guidelines is rigorous. The members (excluding the Chairs) for each EWG are:

 

The role of the EWGs is to review new evidence for physical activity and certain health outcomes (i.e. the effect of physical activity on the risk factors for cardiovascular disease) and make a judgement on whether this evidence suggests a change to the current physical activity recommendations for their group (e.g. Under 5s). It is also the EWGs responsibility to review existing UK and international approaches to the implementation of national physical activity guidelines, and surveillance of physical activity and make any recommendations to improve the way UK do this.

Once this stage is complete, EWGs will write a technical report with their draft physical activity recommendations. These are then open to feedback at the Scientific Consensus Meeting (SCM). EWG members will be participating in the SCM, helping to present their findings, support small workshops and clarify challenging issues from other scientists and stakeholders.

Once the draft physical activity recommendations have been discussed at the SCM, the EWGs will refine and put forward a final technical report for their group with the updated UK physical activity recommendations. These will then be used by the four UK CMOs to write the updated physical activity guidelines.

UK and International Experts

The role of UK and international experts

Experts will be asked to provide advice to Chairs of the EWGs on specific technical matters in relation to evidence or implementation, by contributing their own individual scientific knowledge and experience of production and implementation of national guidelines. They will also provide an oversight and short review of the technical papers produced by the EWGs and CMO Writing Group. UK and international members are: