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Policy in Action: Recent Reports Highlighting the First 1000 Days

The International DOHaD Society Council recently discussed several important national and international reports that reinforce the critical role of the early life environment in shaping long-term health.
These include:

‘Early years interventions to tackle child obesity and promote lifelong health’ – a report by the Academy of Medical Sciences.
‘Early Years Nutrition: Setting the Standards for Change’ – published by the UK’s Cross-Party Group on a Fit and Healthy Childhood.
‘Partnership for Change: Promoting and Protecting Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health in a Fragmented World’ – the newly launched PMNCH 2026–2030 Strategy hosted by WHO.

Together, these reports reflect growing global recognition of the DOHaD framework as essential to improving health equity, early development, and long-term wellbeing. We invite members to explore these resources and consider how they might inform advocacy, research priorities, and collaborative work within and beyond the Society.

Let’s all strengthen the global voices for early life health!

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DOHaD members include scientists, researchers, healthcare professionals, educators, and advocates from more than 60 countries. Supported by Regional Societies worldwide and our biennial World Congresses, we are shaping the future of health together.

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At the DOHaD Society, we advocate globally for a healthy start to life, by supporting initiatives, programs and policies that promote education and research into the early life origins of health and disease.

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At the International DOHaD Society, we believe that health promotion occurs throughout the life course. Our Members work to promote, advocate and initiate global health strategies that result in healthy futures. They engage in novel scientific research exploring the biology behind a healthy start to life, how our biology interacts with the environments within which we live, and how we can ensure that everyone has a healthy start to life to improve lifelong health. We currently have 1,000+ members in over 60 countries, along with numerous Regional DOHaD Societies worldwide.

 
 
 
 
 

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At the heart of our work is the goal is to improve health and well-being across generations, particularly in communities that face barriers. From the very first stages of our development through early childhood, our Members investigate biological, social and cultural mechanisms that underpin the early life origins of health and disease. In addition to engaging in cutting edge research, we are passionate about translating our work into health solutions by developing and supporting early life health interventions. Our intervention strategies and advocacy initiatives are supported by our dedication to creating improved conditions in communities and populations facing global health inequities.

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