The DOHaD Worldwide Webinar Series is a bi-monthly forum that showcases the breadth and diversity of DOHaD research from around the world. Occurring on the first and third Wednesday of each month, the Society partners with its Membership, Regional Societies and community partners from across the globe. All presentations are approximately 30 minutes long, followed by a Q&A and panel discussion.
2024 Webinar Programme:
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Neighbourhood Opportunities and Disparities in Child Health Outcomes
21 February 2024
Izzuddin M Aris, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Department of Population Medicine at the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute and Harvard Medical School
Access the study: Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO)-wide Cohort - 2nd Release (ECHO Cohort v2)
Human Embryonic Development: Effect of Sleep in Physiological Pregnancies
06 March 2024
Dr Alexander Vietheer, MD,University of Bergen, Norway
The Influences of Early Life Exposure to Mixtures of Metals on Cognitive Ability in Children
20 March 2024
Ruwan Thilakaratne, MPH, University of California, Berkeley
Is food before one just for fun? Associations of early feeding exposures and behaviours with later diet and health outcomes
01 May 2024
Dr Karen Switkowski, Department of Population Medicine at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, USA
Developmental programming of ageing induced by poor maternal nutrition: evidence from rodent studies
15 May 2024
Dr Elena Zambrano González, National Institute of Health Sciences and Nutrition “Salvador Zubirán”, Mexico City
Mitigating the detrimental developmental impact of early fetal alcohol exposure using a maternal methyl donor‐enriched diet (Obstetrics & Gynecology) - 2023
05 June 2024 (TBC)
Serge McGraw, University of Montreal, Canada
Long-term cardiometabolic health in people born after assisted reproductive technology: a multi-cohort analysis (Big Data in DOHaD) 2023
07 August 2024
Ahmed Elhakeem, University of Bristol, United Kingdom
Summary of an environmental scan of HIV and Hepatitis C programs, projects and initiatives in Saskatchewan Indigenous (Health and Wellness) 2022
04 September 2024
Alexandra King, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Wheeze trajectories: Determinants and outcomes in the CHILD Cohort Study (Nutritional Sciences) 2022
18 September 2024
Kozeta Miliku, University of Toronto, Canada
Relationships between maternal body mass index and child cognitive outcomes at 3 years of age are buffered by specific early environments in a prospective Canadian birth cohort (Health Sciences) 2022
16 October 2024
Kristin Connor, Carleton University, Canada
Sex-specific stress and biobehavioral responses to human experimenters in rats (Neurosciences) 2022
20 November 2024
Gerlinde Metz, University of Lethbridge, Canada
Timing of introduction of complementary foods, breastfeeding, and child cardiometabolic risk: a prospective multi-ethnic Asian cohort study (Developmental mismatch) 2023
18 December 2024
Yi-Ying Ong, Harvard T.H. Chan, USA
More webinars in the 2024 Webinar Series are to be announced soon.