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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 Luiza Lazo de la Vega Monroy

(Universidad de Guanajuato, Mexico)

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

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PROGRAM CONTENT 

Topic 1. June 11th

Opening, welcome and general guidelines 

Historical perspectives in DOHaD

Birth Cohorts to the Emergence of Preconception Studies

Coordinators of discussion: Elena Zambrano, UNAM-INCMNSZ-Mexico and Guadalupe Estrada-Gutiérrez, InPER-Mexico

Opening lecture: Lucilla Poston, Kings College-UK.

Classe: Marly Cardoso, USP-Brazil. 

 

Topic 2. June 15th

Pregnancy and placental biology

Coordinators of discussion: Paola Casanello, PUC-Chile and Rosiane Miranda, UFRJ-Brazil 

Classes: 

Amanda Sferruzzi-Perri, U. Cambridge-UK

Veronique Ferchaud, INRA-France

 

Topic 3. June 18th

Breastfeeding and complementary feeding

Coordinators of discussion: Fabiola Suano, UNIFESP-Brazil and Marion Emilie Genevieve Brunck, TecMonterrey-Mexico

Classes: 

Kelly Pereira Coca, UNIFESP-Brazil

Amanda Figueiredo, UFRJ-Brazil

 

Topic 4. June 22th

Obesity and non-communicable chronic diseases prevention

Coordinators of discussion: Francisco Bolaños, INRA-France and Marcus Paes, UFMA-Brazil 

Classes: 

Rebecca Reynolds, U. Edimburg-UK

Rodrigo Rodriguez-Fernandez, University of Manchester-UK

Camila Corvalán, University of Chile

  

Topic 5. June 25th

Aging within the DOHaD framework.

Coordinators of discussion: Consuelo Lomas-Soria, INCMNSZ-Mexico and Luis Justulin, UNESP-Brazil

Classes: 

Elena Zambrano, UNAM-INCMNSZ-Mexico

Emilio Herrera, Universidad de Chile  

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