Prevention and management of child obesity: starting early with parenting our infants and children

Please join us for a Grand Round in conjunction with the Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Women’s and Children’s Health Network.

Almost one in four Australian children is overweight or obese by the time they start school. This often sets up a lifelong trajectory of obesity, poorer health and achievement for Australia’s greatest assets, our children. Prevention and management of child obesity needs to start in the earliest years of life. Working with mothers and families around parenting infants and children is essential.

This presentation explores this topic drawing on past projects such PEACHTM and current projects including work out of the Centre of Research Excellence in the Early Prevention of Obesity in Childhood (EPOCH CRE) and a national program on Tools and interventions to increase children’s vegetable consumption. The CRE brings together researchers, practitioners and policy-makers from Australia, New Zealand and England to work collaboratively on approaches to prevention of obesity in children aged 0 to 5 years.

Associate Professor Rebecca Golley
Theme Lead ‘Better Lives’ Caring Futures Institute
College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Flinders University

Associate Professor Rebecca Golley is research domain lead in Nutrition and Dietetics and interim lead of the ‘Better Lives’ theme within the Flinders Caring Futures Institute, which will be launched in August 2019. Associate Professor Golley leads a program of public health nutrition research with a strong focus on supporting children and families. She is recognised as a national expert in child obesity and nutrition promotion interventions and paediatric dietary assessment. She has a strong track record in nutritional epidemiology, behavioural nutrition, food parenting, intervention development and evaluation as well as research translation.

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