Life Cycles and Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD)

It is a course created for graduate students and healthcare professionals. The classes will address the following subjects in a cross-disciplinary manner: Developmental Origins of Health and Disease. Advocacy in DOHaD. Transgenerational mechanisms in DOHaD: Epigenetics. First 1000 days interventions. Development Cohorts. First Nations people from a DOHaD perspective.

Coordinators:

Prof. Fabíola Isabel Suano de Souza

(Universidade Federal de São Paulo – UNIFESP, Brazil)

Prof. Cristiane Matté

(Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul – UFRGS, Brazil)

Prof. Gloria Barbosa-Sabanero

(Universidad de Guanajuato, Mexico)

Prof. Maria Luisa Lazo de la Vega Monroy

(Universidad de Guanajuato, Mexico)

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Course information:

Target audience:

1. Graduate students enrolled in the Graduate Program in Pediatrics and Sciences Applied to Pediatrics, Biochemistry, Physiology, Obstetrics and other programs at the participating institutions or other institutions.

2. Health professionals.

Credits:

30 hours or 2 credits (15 synchronous activities and 15 asynchronous activities - classroom)

Language of the course:

Portuguese, Spanish and English (without simultaneous translation)

Vacancy:

100 master or PhD students + 50 professionals

Subscription:

March, 25 - May, 15

Documents required for free of cost subscription (postgraduate students):

1. Student application form,

2. copy of identity,

3. undergraduate diploma,

4. document from your Postgraduation program proving active master or PhD enrollment (if applies).

If you are a postgraduation student (Master or PhD), please, send the documents 1-4 to PPG Bioquímica - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul – UFRGS, Brazil (ppgbioq@ufrgs.br) to perform your subscription (free of cost).

If you are a professional, please, fill the Professional application form and send the form signed plus an ID copy to LA-DOHaD Regional Society (sec.la.dohad@gmail.com) Also, make a donation of $50 for the LA-DOHaD Regional Society (request bank account info by email or donate directly HERE).

A certificate can be issued.

Access link: provided after subscription

Professional Form

PROGRAM CONTENT

Topic 1 – June 11: Historical Perspectives in DOHaD (video recorded available on classroom)

Opening lecture: Lucilla Poston (King’s College London, UK): Introduction to DOHaD

Topic 2 – June 15: Pregnancy and Placental Biology

Coordinators: Paola Casanello (PUC, Chile) and Maria Luisa Lazo (Universidad de Guanajuato, Mexico)

Lectures:

Amanda Sferruzzi-Perri (University of Cambridge, UK): The placenta: key determinant of offspring and maternal metabolic physiology
Rosiane Miranda (UFRJ, Brazil): The placenta as a sensor and mediator of environmental signals

Topic 3 – June 18: Breastfeeding and Complementary Feeding

Coordinators: Fabíola Suano (UNIFESP, Brazil) Marion Emilie Genevieve Brunck (Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico), Elena Zambrano (UNAM-INCMNSZ, Mexico) and Guadalupe Estrada-Gutiérrez (InPER, Mexico)

Lectures:

Lecture: Marly Cardoso (USP, Brazil): From Early-Life Exposures to Child Health Trajectories: Insights from the MINA-Brazil Birth Cohort
Kelly Pereira Coca (UNIFESP, Brazil): Postpartum Colostrum Expression and Breastfeeding Outcomes in Women With Diabetes
Amanda Figueiredo (UFRJ, Brazil): Background and Overview of the Mothers, Infants, and Lactation Quality (MILQ) Study

Topic 4 – June 22: Obesity and Prevention of Non-Communicable Diseases

Coordinators: Francisco Bolaños (INRA, France) and Marcus Paes (UFMA, Brazil)

Lectures:

Rebecca Reynolds (University of Edinburgh, UK): Maternal health in pregnancy and intergenerational health: evidence from healthcare record linkage and cohort studies
Rodrigo Rodríguez-Fernández (University of Manchester, UK): Non-Communicable Disease Prevention Through a Life Course Lens: From Evidence to Policy

Topic 5 – June 25: Ageing within the DOHaD Framework

Coordinators: Consuelo Lomas-Soria (INCMNSZ, Mexico) and Luis Justulin (UNESP, Brazil)
Lectures:

Elena Zambrano (UNAM-INCMNSZ, Mexico): The Impact of Early-Life Programming on Aging
Emilio Herrera (Universidad de Chile): Chronic hypoxia during gestation and postnatal cardiovascular aging