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. Erika Chavira-Suárez
(Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México – UNAM, Mexico)
Prof. Prof. Paola Casanello
(Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile – PUC, Chile)
Course information:
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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.
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Credits:
30 hours or 2 credits (18 synchronous activities and 12 asynchronous activities - classroom)
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Language of the course:
Portuguese, Spanish and English (without simultaneous translation)
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Vacancy:
100 master or PhD students + 50 professionals
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Subscription:
June, 24 - July, 20 (Finished!)
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Documents required for subscription:
1. application form,
2. copy of identity,
3. undergraduate diploma (if applies),
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).
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If you are a professional, please, fill the Application form and send the documents 1-2 to LA-DOHaD Regional Society (sec.la.dohad@gmail.com) Also, make a donation of $20 (US$) to validate your subscription. The payment could be done using the yellow button at the top of the website (DONATE), accessing PayPal (payment to cristianematte@gmail.com) ou, if you are Brazilian, by PIX (R$ 100,00 Chave PIX: cristianematte@gmail.com).
PROGRAM CONTENT
Topic 1. August 1st (Thursday 3:00 pm – 6:00 pm Brazilian time)
Opening, welcome and general guidelines
Advocacy in DOHaD
Coordinators: Elena Zambrano and Antonio Marcus Paes
Opening lecture: Lucilla Poston. DOHaD research in the 2020s: approaches and challenges.
Cultural lecture: Dan Saladino. Eating to extinction.
Topic 2. August 8th (Thursday 3:00 pm – 6:00 pm Brazilian time)
Transgenerational mechanisms in DOHaD: Epigenetics
Coordinators: Maria Luiza Lazo de la Vega Monroy and Adriana Souza Torsoni
Classes:
Erika Chavira-Suárez. What do we know about the epigenome in developmental programming?
Andrea Leiva. Hypercholesteremia in pregnancy, a new player in the DOHaD board: contribution to maternal and offspring cardiovascular risk
Topic 3. August 15th (Thursday 3:00 pm – 6:00 pm Brazilian time)
Intrauterine growth on postnatal health: intergenerational impact
Coordinators: Paola Casanello, Thomas Ong and Gloria Barbosa-Sabanero
Classes:
Susan Ozanne. Intergenerational impact of obesity during pregnancy - how can we intervene?
Nathalia Cristina de Freitas Costa. Gestational weight gain and its association with maternal and infant adverse outcomes.
Topic 4. August 29th (Thursday 3:00 pm – 6:00 pm Brazilian time)
Development Cohorts
Coordinators: Maria Albertina Santiago Rego and Néstor Alejandro Dinerstein
Classes:
José Villar - Early human growth in health and disease: the INTERGROWTH 21st cohort project.
Bernardo Horta. Pelotas cohorts: 4 decades of birth cohorts
Topic 5. September 5th (Thursday 3:00 pm – 6:00 pm Brazilian time)
Vulnerable populations from a DOHaD perspective
Coordinators: Michele Monroy-Valle and Silvana Benzecry
Classes:
Marly A. Cardoso. Building a healthier future: child health and vulnerable populations in Brazil
Pablo Nepomnaschy. Indigenous Mothers and Children, what the DOHaD field can contribute and how should we do it.
Topic 6. September 12th (Thursday 3:00 pm – 6:00 pm Brazilian time)
DOHaD in a translational perspective
Coordinators: Erika Chavira-Suárez, Paola Casanello and Débora Sabatelli
Classes:
Patrícia Pelufo Silveira. Translational studies in DOHaD
Guadalupe Estrada-Gutierrez. Translating the DOHaD concept to improve the next generation´s health