5th International Congress on
Developmental Origins of Health & Disease

About the Event

Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD)

‘Finding Global Solutions for the Origins of Disease’

This field of research brings together the diverse fields of medical research and community activities required to tackle the current epidemic of obesity, adult-onset diabetes and heart disease. This relatively new and rapidly growing field is now set to play a major role in addressing the epidemic by focusing on the earliest origins of these diseases. 

The risks of an individual developing obesity, adult-onset diabetes and a host of related conditions are not by chance and do not result from genetics or adult lifestyle alone. There is compelling evidence that the unborn child (the fetus) is programmed for the world in which the mother is living. Obesity and diabetes are more likely if the individual lives in an environment of nutrition and exercise level that differs from that for which he or she is programmed.

This series of events is affecting a large proportion of the world’s population, but is most relevant to those communities making a rapid transition from a traditional to a modern lifestyle. Such communities include indigenous Australians and many migrant populations.

There are many fields of research and community activity that individually address these problems, but each alone can only make a limited contribution. DOHaD brings these fields together, aiming at global solutions.

The DOHaD research community is international and consists of health care providers and scientists who share a common goal of preventing human diseases at their origins. Their work spans the spectrum from genes to society, from conception to adulthood, and from behaviour to disease.

Solutions will be found by bringing together scientists from these diverse fields, health care providers of all disciplines, sociologists, economists and politicians. The discoveries and strategies that will result are relevant to all communities and nations.

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