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 July 2020


The CRE-EPOCH 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. For further details, please see our website: www.earlychildhoodobesity.com.
Stream 4 News

InFANT scale-up in Victoria

The InFANT program is one of the foundation trials of the EPOCH CRE collaboration, designed to assist first time parents with healthy eating and active play from birth.  We are excited to announce that InFANT is being scaled up across Victoria.
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New Publications

Managing differing advice in a new country: Infant feeding support for Chinese and Arabic speaking immigrant mothers

new study highlights the challenges migrant mothers may experience when managing conflicting infant feeding advice in Australia. Opportunities exist for health professionals to better support migrant mothers' infant feeding practices, for example through engaging families and bi-cultural doctors. 

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Cost comparison of five Australasian obesity prevention interventions for children aged from birth to two years

Limited published evidence exists on the costs of early childhood obesity prevention interventions conducted in research settings, despite recommendations that this information should be routinely reported for intervention trials. 

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Understanding early prevention of obesity in children (EPOCH) interventions: Opening up the ‘black box’

Early obesity prevention interventions are complex and differ in effectiveness.  A new study unpacked the four EPOCH trials and identified key lessons for effective early obesity prevention interventions.

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Innovative trial to promote healthy weight in pregnancy and infancy for mother and baby

EPOCH CRE Stream 4 co-leads, Dr Rachel Laws and Professor Karen Campbell, are joining a newly funded European Union project to trial an innovative approach to address unhealthy weight during pregnancy and in the first year of life

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Staff News

Professor Louise Baur appointed President-Elect of World Obesity Federation

We are excited to announce that Professor Louise Baur, EPOCH CRE director, has recently been appointed as President-Elect of World Obesity Federation (WOF).  Congratulations Louise!

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Farewelling Dr Andrew Tan

Andrew was a postdoc fellow with Stream 3 of the EPOCH CRE and made a significant contribution to the development of an economic model for EPOCH interventions.  He recently taken up a new position with the Health Economics team at Deakin University. 

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Funding Sources

The Centre for Research Excellence in the Early Prevention of Obesity in Childhood (EPOCH) is funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC ID:APP1001675) from 2016-2020.

Additional funding to support the CRE - EPOCH  comes from the following agencies:
  • Queensland University of Technology
  • University of South Australia
  • The University of Sydney
  • Sydney Local Health District (NSW Health)
  • NSW Ministry of Health
We would like to thank them for their contributions.
 
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Centre of Research Excellence in the Early Prevention of Obesity in Childhood
Prevention Research Collaboration
Level 6, Charles Perkins Centre (D17)
University of Sydney  NSW  2006
Australia


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