
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

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
