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Forum focus on child health

 Health Sciences

A research symposium on health issues affecting infants, children and adolescents will be held at the University of Adelaide next month.

Hosted by Healthy Development Adelaide, the forum will give PhD students and early career researchers from South Australia's three universities the opportunity to present their work in four key areas: Healthy Pregnancy and Parenting, Healthy Reproduction, Healthy Weight and Nutrition, and Healthy Development.

Prizes will be awarded for the best presentations by a PhD candidate and an early career researcher, together with a prize for the best multi-disciplinary research presentation.

Dr Julia Pitcher from the University of Adelaide's Discipline of Obstetrics and Gynaecology will give the opening talk on strategies for succeeding in early career research. A highlight talk at the end of the day will also be presented by Dr Rob Morrison from Flinders University on how scientists can best get their message across to the media.

Healthy Development Adelaide (HDA) was formed in 2004 and is led by Professors Robert Norman, Caroline McMillen and Michael Sawyer.

HDA fosters research between various disciplines and has a statewide focus that includes members from the University of Adelaide, the University of South Australia, Flinders University, Children Youth and Women's Health Service, relevant organisations and government departments.

It is the only centre in South Australia to focus on multi-disciplinary research relating to the healthy development of infants, children and teenagers.

Earlier this year, the University of Adelaide awarded four inaugural HDA scholarships to the following postgraduate students:

  • Leigh Guerin (Role of maternal T regulatory cells in healthy pregnancy);
  • Siew Seen Lim (Impact of obesity in reproductive outcomes for women);
  • Anne Raimondo (Role of the Single-Minded protein 1 in early neural development);
  • Lynlea Simmonds (Pharmacological, cognitive and emotional outcomes of ecstasy use in young people).

The research symposium will be held on 2 November. For more information, visit www.adelaide.edu.au/hda/events or contact Anne Jurisevic, HDA Network and Communications Officer, on (08) 8303 8222 or email: anne.jurisevic@adelaide.edu.au

Story by Candy Gibson

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