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PUBLIC LECTURE: Getting Healthy Eating and Active Play Right from the Start

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Getting Healthy Eating and Active Play Right from the Start : Public Lecture by Dr Karen Campbell Other events...
Karen Campbell is a Senior Researcher in the Centre for Physical Activity and Nutrition Research (C-PAN) at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia. With a background in dietetics and health promotion, Dr Campbell undertook her Masters in Public Health and then a PhD which focused on home environment correlates of young children’s eating behaviours. Karen conducted the first Cochrane systematic review of obesity prevention in children in 2002 to better understand what worked in obesity prevention, but also to highlight how underserved this important area was. She continues to update this review biannually. Her intervention research focuses on the continuum of opportunities for obesity prevention between pre- pregnancy and early childhood. She is particularly interested in testing programs that can promote healthy eating and activity behaviours and which can feasibly be run in the real world. To that end she has just completed the intervention phase of the Melbourne Infant Feeding Activity and Nutrition Trial (InFANT) Program, an obesity prevention intervention targeting first time parents of infants, in their existing social groups. This cluster RCT has involved around 550 families in 62 first-time parent groups across Melbourne, Victoria. Early results show significant differences in many targeted child and parent outcomes
Speaker(s) Dr Karen Campbell
Location John Bloomfield Lecture Theatre
Contact Marion Bleakley <[email protected]> : (08)64884724
Start Wed, 06 Apr 2011 17:00
End Wed, 06 Apr 2011 18:00
Submitted by Marion Bleakley <[email protected]>
Last Updated Thu, 22 Mar 2012 09:12
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