Abstract
The 2020 Yokohama Sport Conference, an international conference in harmony with the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games, was initially planned to be held in Yokohama from 8 to 12 September, 2020. However, the COVID-19 pandemic significantly affected the conference; the conference style and dates were changed and many programs were altered or cancelled. All sessions in which Japanese Association of Exercise Epidemiology was involved were also cancelled. Then, owing to the stakeholders’ passions, kind understanding and help, we re-planned and held online lectures and a talk by Dr. Fiona Bull (Head of Physical Activity Unit, Department of Health Promotion, Division of Healthier Populations, World Health organization) and Dr. Daichi Suzuki (Commissioner, Japan Sports Agency) on September 9, 2020 as a public program, connecting Switzerland and Japan in real-time. As we could not have enough time for discussions among participants of the public program, we also held an online reflection session on the following day. Here, we summarize the process and contents of these sessions and discuss future perspectives, based on the findings from the sessions as an implementation of dissemination of exercise epidemiology.
