Sleep DownUnder Conference, Australia
Associate Professor Justine Camp, Co-Director of EDOR, along with researchers Takiwai Russell-Camp, EDOR PhD candidate Shay-Ruby Wickham, and Professor Barbara Galland, are attending the Sleep DownUnder 2024 conference in Australia.
Justine Camp and Takiwai Russell-Camp present Moemoeā
EDOR's Moemoea project will be the subject of a presentation by Associate Professor Camp and Ms Russell-Camp, entitled Ko Te honoka te whariki o whanau ora: Bridging indigenous and Western world views to create a sleep and connection intervention in the Moemoeā MOST trial.
Barbara Galland presents on Whakatipu Rakatira
Professor Galland will share stakeholders' perspectives on the challenges and facilitators in adopting healthy school start times, as part of the EDOR-led Health Research Council of New Zealand programme grant Whakatipu Rakatira: Improving sleep as a vehicle to grow healthy future leaders
Shay Ruby-Wickham presents the BED study
Ms Ruby Wickham presented results on the Bedtime Electronic Devices (BED) study. Her presentation highlighted the relationship between digital device use in bed and sleep in adolescents. The BED study used wearable cameras as a novel strategy to measure screen use in teenagers.
The main outcomes from the BED study have recently been published in JAMA Pediatrics.
ANZOS Conference, Australia
Professor Barry Taylor, Dr Lisa Daniels and PhD candidate Alice Cox, will attend the Australia and New Zealand Obesity Society (ANZOS) meeting in Sydney, Australia, with EDOR advisory board member Professor Boyd Swinburn giving a plenary address on systems approaches to obesity prevention.
Dr Lisa Daniels is talking about her research on weight gain during early childhood, and the prevalence of high BMI during the first 3 years of life using New Zealand national electronic health data.
Professor Barry Taylor will speak about rapid weight gain in infancy, outlining the knowledge and practices of ‘Well Child’ health practitioners in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Ms Alice Cox will describe results from the EDOR First Foods New Zealand study in her poster presentation: Is eating speed associated with energy intake, weight status or complementary feeding practices during infancy?
Find out more about the conference programmes
- Sleep DownUnder 2024, 16-19 October, 2024
- ANZOS 2024 Annual Scientific Meeting, 18-18 October, 2024