Nutrition, Development and Lifelong Health: Studies in Developing and Transitioning Populations

Lead Research Organisation: University of Southampton
Department Name: UNLISTED

Abstract

The mission of the MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit is to provide a centre of excellence which uses epidemiological methods to promote human health by delineating the environmental and occupational causes throughout the lifecourse of: (1) chronic musculoskeletal disorders (osteoporosis, osteoarthritis and sarcopenia); and (2) metabolic disorders (diabetes mellitus, obesity and cardiovascular disease). Through understanding these causes, we aim to develop population-based and high risk preventive strategies against these disorders. This programme will explore the contributions made by maternal undernutrition to the origins of later diabetes and heart disease in the offspring. It is based in India, and includes a series of observational studies and trials.

Technical Summary

Past research in this programme has shown that the maternal undernutrition, and low birthweight and infant weight gain typical of poor rural populations in India are associated with reduced lean mass, bone mass and cognitive function in childhood and/or adult life, and an increased risk of low birthweight and stunting in the next generation. When early life undernutrition is followed by rapid childhood and adolescent weight gain or excessive adult weight gain, features that are enabled by economic transition and urbanisation, there is a high risk of insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome, type 2 diabetes and CVD. In women, this transition increases the risk of gestational diabetes, which also causes insulin resistance and diabetes in the next generation. Poor diet quality, leading to inadequate intakes of a range of vitamins and minerals, is common among poor rural and urban women, and is associated with lower birthweight. Vitamin B12 deficiency is common in India for cultural reasons, and may be a particularly important nutritional deficit in this population. Maternal vitamin B12 deficiency is associated with low birthweight, insulin resistance in the children, and increased maternal adiposity and gestational diabetes. A major focus of our future work will be on intervention studies. Of several possible intervention points in the dual cycle of risk, we have chosen the adolescent and young adult age group, with the objective of improving the health of young women before pregnancy, improving pregnancy outcomes and reducing metabolic/CVD risk in the children. Interventions will be designed not only for overtly undernourished women, but also for middle class urban women because they too, and their children, are at risk. Alongside these intervention studies, we will continue to follow-up our existing birth cohorts, to better define associations between early life factors and risk markers for later disease, disease endpoints (CVD and T2DM), bone health and cognition. In the Delhi study, we will explore inter-generational associations for these outcomes, by studying children of the cohort. Like the other ERC programmes, we will utilise the intervention and cohort studies to explore epigenetic mechanisms as a possible link between early nutrition and later outcomes. Other international collaborations will include studies of social factors in early life in relation to adult health and disease, and studies of the economic impact of impaired early development.

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Bhawra J (2018) Results from India's 2018 Report Card on Physical Activity for Children and Youth. in Journal of physical activity & health

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Bhawra J (2023) The 2022 India Report Card on physical activity for children and adolescents. in Journal of exercise science and fitness

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Boyne MS (2013) The effect of antenatal factors and postnatal growth on serum adiponectin levels in children. in Journal of developmental origins of health and disease

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Description GCRF Local Strategic Development Grant: COVID-19: Exploring the experiences of young people across sub-Saharan Africa and India
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Description Senior Fellowship to GV Krishnaveni: Lifecourse programming of stress responses in young adults in India: A multi-faceted approach to explore mediating factors and develop interventions
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Title Value Chain Analysis Methods for micronutrient-rich foods in India 
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Title Databases from 8 Indian birth cohorts 
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Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact Widening of research usage 
 
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Department Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB)
Country India 
Sector Academic/University 
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Description CF: EMPHASIS collaboration 
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Description CF: EMPHASIS collaboration 
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Department MRC Unit, The Gambia
Country Gambia 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution Colaboration led by Caroline Fall. Contribution of data from Mumbai Maternal Nutrition Study. Contribution of expertise in epidemiology, nutrition, epigenetics.
Collaborator Contribution Contribution of data from trial in the Gambia. Epigenetics and bioinformatics expertise.
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Description CF: NCD Risk Factor Collaboration 
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Country Global 
Sector Public 
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Department Birth to Twenty
Country South Africa 
Sector Academic/University 
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Department College of Medicine and Health Sciences
Country Ethiopia 
Sector Academic/University 
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Department Medicine
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Department Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB)
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Sector Academic/University 
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Description Genetics and epigenetics of fetal growth and programming 
Organisation Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)
Department Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB)
Country India 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Epidemiological and statistical expertise
Collaborator Contribution Genetic and epigenetic expertise
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Description IFPRI 
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Country United States 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Expertise in health-related and nutritional field studies
Collaborator Contribution Value chain analysis
Impact Successful grant application
Start Year 2014
 
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Organisation All India Institute of Medical Sciences
Country India 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Epidemiological expertise.
Collaborator Contribution Data collection. Cardiology expertise.
Impact Multi-disciplinary collaboration (epidemiology, biostatistics, cardiology)
Start Year 2016
 
Description INDECHO collaboration 
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Country India 
Sector Hospitals 
PI Contribution Epidemiological expertise.
Collaborator Contribution Data collection. Cardiology expertise.
Impact Multi-disciplinary collaboration (epidemiology, biostatistics, cardiology)
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Country India 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Epidemiological expertise.
Collaborator Contribution Data collection. Cardiology expertise.
Impact Multi-disciplinary collaboration (epidemiology, biostatistics, cardiology)
Start Year 2016
 
Description INDECHO collaboration 
Organisation Sitaram Bhartia Institute of Science and Research
Country India 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Epidemiological expertise.
Collaborator Contribution Data collection. Cardiology expertise.
Impact Multi-disciplinary collaboration (epidemiology, biostatistics, cardiology)
Start Year 2016
 
Description INDECHO collaboration 
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Country India 
Sector Hospitals 
PI Contribution Epidemiological expertise.
Collaborator Contribution Data collection. Cardiology expertise.
Impact Multi-disciplinary collaboration (epidemiology, biostatistics, cardiology)
Start Year 2016
 
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Department Oxford Centre for Diabetes Endocrinology and Metabolism (OCDEM)
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Epidemiological expertise.
Collaborator Contribution Data collection. Cardiology expertise.
Impact Multi-disciplinary collaboration (epidemiology, biostatistics, cardiology)
Start Year 2016
 
Description MS Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai, India 
Organisation MS Swaminathan Foundation
Country India 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Nutritional expertise, expertise in health-related cohort and field studies
Collaborator Contribution Expertise in agricultural economics
Impact Successful grant application
Start Year 2014
 
Description Mumbai Maternal Nutrition Project 
Organisation Centre for the Study of Social Change
Country India 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution Study design, research governance, epidemiological and statistical expertise. Epidemiological, statistical and nutritional expertise. Research governance.
Collaborator Contribution Expertise in community-based research, including interventions, in low income settings in a developing country. Fieldwork and data management.
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Description Mysore Parthenon Cohort Study 
Organisation Holdsworth Memorial Hospital, Mysore
Department Epidemiology Research Centre
Country India 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Epidemiological and statistical expertise, study design, training of field team, mentorship, interpretation of data.
Collaborator Contribution Day-to-day liaison with cohort, fieldwork, data management, and analysis and interpretation. Publications. Fellowship for Dr GV Krishnaveni
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Start Year 2006
 
Description New Delhi Birth Cohort Study 
Organisation All India Institute of Medical Sciences
Country India 
Sector Academic/University 
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Impact 18835958, 19015213, 20090113, 20660641, 21511113, 21682572, 22237812, 22537976, 23798637, 25008854, 25186666, 25999096, 26109024, 26831418, 27061677, 27115820, 27458798, 27484448, 27765286, 27863813. Abstracts presented at a major international meetings and published in peer-reviewed international journals. Multi-disciplinary study: epidemiology, statistics, diabetes, cardiology, paediatrics, genetics
Start Year 2006
 
Description New Delhi Birth Cohort Study 
Organisation Centre for Chronic Disease Control (CCDC)
Country India 
Sector Hospitals 
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Collaborator Contribution Day-to-day liaison with cohort subjects, fieldwork management, data management, analysis and interpretation. Publications. Membership of COHORTS collaboration. Membership of Global Burden of Metabolic Risk Factors of Chronic Diseases Collaborating Group,
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Start Year 2006
 
Description New Delhi Birth Cohort Study 
Organisation Sitaram Bhartia Institute of Science and Research
Country India 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Contributions to study design,fieldwork training and quality control, data management, analysis and interpretation. Epidemiological and statistical expertise.
Collaborator Contribution Day-to-day liaison with cohort subjects, fieldwork management, data management, analysis and interpretation. Publications. Membership of COHORTS collaboration. Membership of Global Burden of Metabolic Risk Factors of Chronic Diseases Collaborating Group,
Impact 18835958, 19015213, 20090113, 20660641, 21511113, 21682572, 22237812, 22537976, 23798637, 25008854, 25186666, 25999096, 26109024, 26831418, 27061677, 27115820, 27458798, 27484448, 27765286, 27863813. Abstracts presented at a major international meetings and published in peer-reviewed international journals. Multi-disciplinary study: epidemiology, statistics, diabetes, cardiology, paediatrics, genetics
Start Year 2006
 
Description New Delhi Birth Cohort Study 
Organisation Sunder Lal Jain Hospital
Country India 
Sector Hospitals 
PI Contribution Contributions to study design,fieldwork training and quality control, data management, analysis and interpretation. Epidemiological and statistical expertise.
Collaborator Contribution Day-to-day liaison with cohort subjects, fieldwork management, data management, analysis and interpretation. Publications. Membership of COHORTS collaboration. Membership of Global Burden of Metabolic Risk Factors of Chronic Diseases Collaborating Group,
Impact 18835958, 19015213, 20090113, 20660641, 21511113, 21682572, 22237812, 22537976, 23798637, 25008854, 25186666, 25999096, 26109024, 26831418, 27061677, 27115820, 27458798, 27484448, 27765286, 27863813. Abstracts presented at a major international meetings and published in peer-reviewed international journals. Multi-disciplinary study: epidemiology, statistics, diabetes, cardiology, paediatrics, genetics
Start Year 2006
 
Description Placental studies in Saudi Arabia and Tunisia 
Organisation King Saud University
Department Department of Zoology
Country Saudi Arabia 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Statistical and epidemiological expertise, exchange visits, assistance with paper writing.
Collaborator Contribution Cohort resources, data collection.
Impact Publications: 20621763, 21429577, 21630372, 22652045, 23436278, 23657899,
Start Year 2009
 
Description Pune Maternal Nutrition Study 
Organisation KEM Hospital Research Centre
Department Department of Diabetes
Country India 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Contributions to study design, fieldwork training and quality control, data management, analysis and interpretation.Epidemiological, statistical and nutritional expertise.
Collaborator Contribution Expertise in community-based research, including interventions, in rural and urban settings in a developing country. Day-to-day liaison with cohort subjects, fieldwork management, data management, analysis and interpretation.
Impact 16480528, 16735496, 17032446, 17116720, 17620450, 17653070, 17851649, 19005641, 19498084, 19636321, 19776185, 20090113, 20103791, 20216560, 20675085, 21682572, 21731039, 22109280, 22323413, 22829248, 22941936, 22941936, 22941936, 22323413, 23349157, 23757425, 23920141, 24162586, 24459167, 25052622, 26902699 Abstracts presented at major international meetings and published in peer-reviewed international journals. Multi-disciplinary study: diabetes, paediatrics, obstetrics, radiology, nutrition, epidemiology, statistics
Start Year 2006
 
Description Pune Pre-eclampsia cohort 
Organisation Bharati Vidyapeeth University
Department Interactive Research School for Health Affairs (IRSHA)
Country India 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Epidemiology expertise, data analysis, research team training
Collaborator Contribution Access to cohort of children whose mothers had pregnancy complications
Impact None yet
Start Year 2010
 
Description SK: Association for Nutrition 
Organisation Association for Nutrition
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Work on social media policy and communication strategies
Collaborator Contribution Communication policy/strategies
Impact None to date
Start Year 2015
 
Description SK: International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh 
Organisation International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b)
Country Bangladesh 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution Submitted bid to Wellcome Trust 'Our Planet Our Health' call
Collaborator Contribution Submitted bid to Wellcome Trust 'Our Planet Our Health' call
Impact None to date
Start Year 2015
 
Description SK: O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown University Law Center 
Organisation Georgetown University
Department O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law
Country United States 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Submitted bid to Wellcome Trust 'Our Planet Our Health' call
Collaborator Contribution Submitted bid to Wellcome Trust 'Our Planet Our Health' call
Impact No outcomes to date
Start Year 2015
 
Description SK: United Nationsl Food and Agriculture Organisation 
Organisation United Nations (UN)
Country United States 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution Submitted bid to Wellcome Trust 'Our Planet Our Health' call
Collaborator Contribution Submitted bid to Wellcome Trust 'Our Planet Our Health' call
Impact No outputs to date
Start Year 2015
 
Description 20th Annual Sneha Workshop, Feb 2017 (K Kumaran) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Indian meeting on DOHaD research attended by over 600 delegates and over 200 for the 2nd David Barker Memorial conference
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description 21st Annual SNEHA Meeting, Pune 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact SNEHA (Society for the Natal Effects of Health in Adults) held its 21st annual meeting at Pune. I am the current Secretary of the organisation. We had two days of interactive oral and poster presentations by the members and external speakers. We also had a day where we conducted the 3rd David Barker Memorial Symposium which consisted of invited speakers in the morning followed by a session for the public in the afternoon on reversal of diabetes. The event went well and we received positive feedb
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description 23. The first 1000 days 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact "The first 1000 days". Invited plenary speaker, International Summit on the Nutrition of Adolescent Girls and Young Women, Moore Institute for Nutrition and Wellness, Portland, Oregon, USA, 16th May 2015.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
 
Description Address to a school audience, Mysore, India March 3016 (K Kumaran) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Schools
Results and Impact Chief guest: address to a school audience (students, teachers and parents) on the importance of early life nuturing to improve child development and later health. The school has subsequently asked Dr Kumaran to run regular sessions on adolescent health for the high school students
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
 
Description Annual Indian DOHaD workshop 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Scientific meeting of researchers from across India working in the DOHaD field
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Annual Indian DOHaD workshop 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Scientific meeting of researchers from across India working in the DOHaD field
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Annual Sneha conference, Lonavala, India, 2014 (K Kumaran) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Part of the organising team; attended by over 60 delegates for the main workshop and approx 150 for the David Barker Memorial Conference
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Biostatistics and Epidemiology for Clinical and Public Health Research, Vellore, India, March 2016 and June 2016 (K Kumaran) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Faculty on a course for multi-disciplinary professionals run by Christian Medical College, Vellore in March and again in June 2016
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
 
Description CF: Newspaper article on the Mumbai Trial 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact An Article entitled "For healthy and intelligent future generation" appeared in the Loksatta, Marathi Daily, Mumbai, India and spoke about the findings of the Mumbai Trial. The CSSC has been working for 40 years to develop a healthy and enabled society in the slum of Mumbai. They started working with MRC LEU in 2005.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Caroline Fall (organiser), K Kumaran (rapporteur); Steering Committee meeting for EMPHASIS study 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Steering committee meeting for the EMPHASS study (epigenetic changes in children born to mothers who participated in randomised controlled trials of nutritional interventions during pregnancy.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
 
Description Caroline Fall, K Kumaran, Sarah Kehoe. Organisers and chairs: 20th Annual Workshop of SNEHA India 2017 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Annual workshop in India on developmental origins of health and disease, under the aegis of SNEHA-INDIA (Society for Natal Effects on Health in Adults). The workshop brings senior researchers, multi-disciplinary research teams, under- and post-graduate students working on cohorts studies and trials from all over India together, along with international collaborators and invited speakers
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Caroline Fall, K Kumaran, Sarah Kehoe; Organisers and chairs; 19th Annual Workshop of SNEHA India 2016 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Annual workshop in India on developmental origins of health and disease, under the aegis of SNEHA-INDIA (Society for natal effects on health in adults). This workshop brings senior researchers, multi-disciplinary research teams, under- and post-graduate students working on cohorts studies and trials from all over India together, along with international collaborators and invite speakers.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
 
Description Caroline Fall: "Developmental origins of health and disease". Invited speaker to a lay audience; Nutrition of Girls and Women in Oregon, Moore Institute for Nutrition and Wellness, Portland, Oregon, USA, 14th May 2015. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Invited speaker to a lay audience; Nutrition of Girls and Women in Oregon, Moore Institute for Nutrition and Wellness, Portland, Oregon, USA, 14th May 2015.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
 
Description Caroline Fall: "How is the memory of early life events retained, and how may it cause disease?" Invited plenary presentation at the 9th World Congress on Developmental Origins of Health and Disease, Capetown, South Africa, 8th November 2015. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact "How is the memory of early life events retained, and how may it cause disease?" Invited plenary presentation at the 9th World Congress on Developmental Origins of Health and Disease, Capetown, South Africa, 8th November 2015.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
 
Description Caroline Fall: "So you think you can do a pre-conceptional trial? What we learned from the Mumbai 'samosa' trial". Invited plenary presentation at the 9th World Congress on Developmental Origins of Health and Disease, Capetown, South Africa, 11th November 2015. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact "So you think you can do a pre-conceptional trial? What we learned from the Mumbai 'samosa' trial". Invited plenary presentation at the 9th World Congress on Developmental Origins of Health and Disease, Capetown, South Africa, 11th November 2015.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
 
Description Caroline Fall: "The 'thin-fat' Indian and developmental origins of health and disease". Invited Keynote speaker, Wessex Paediatric Winter Meeting (organised by the Paediatric Innovation, Education and Research Network), Southampton General Hospital, 11th December 2015. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact "The 'thin-fat' Indian and developmental origins of health and disease". Invited Keynote speaker, Wessex Paediatric Winter Meeting (organised by the Paediatric Innovation, Education and Research Network), Southampton General Hospital, 11th December 2015.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
 
Description Caroline Fall: "The environmental and developmental origins of health and disease (WHO CEH module)" and "Birth cohorts in India: An overview". Invited plenary speaker, PHFI-CHEP Workshop on Children's Environmental Health, Gurgaon, India, 23rd November 2015. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact "The environmental and developmental origins of health and disease (WHO CEH module)" and "Birth cohorts in India: An overview". Invited plenary speaker, PHFI-CHEP Workshop on Children's Environmental Health, Gurgaon, India, 23rd November 2015.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
 
Description Caroline Fall: "The fetal origins of type 2 diabetes". Invited guest speaker to a lay audience, Center for Women's Health, Circle of Giving annual meeting, Portland, Oregon, USA,13th May 2015. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Invited guest speaker to a lay audience, Center for Women's Health, Circle of Giving annual meeting, Portland, Oregon, USA,13th May 2015.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
 
Description Caroline Fall: "The first 1000 days". Invited plenary speaker, International Summit on the Nutrition of Adolescent Girls and Young Women, Moore Institute for Nutrition and Wellness, Portland, Oregon, USA, 16th May 2015. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Invited plenary speaker, International Summit on the Nutrition of Adolescent Girls and Young Women, Moore Institute for Nutrition and Wellness, Portland, Oregon, USA, 16th May 2015.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
 
Description Caroline Fall: "The role of food-based approaches to improve pre-conceptional nutrition and birth outcomes". Invited presentation in Symposium on 'Do we need preconception nutrition interventions to improve birth outcomes beyond the prevention of neural tube defects? Current knowledge'. Annual meeting of the American Nutrition Society, Boston, March 29th 2015. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Annual meeting of the American Nutrition Society, Boston, March 29th 2015.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
 
Description Caroline Fall: "Translating 'developmental origins' to benefit women and babies in low- and middle-income countries". Invited plenary speaker, 3rd Annual Harvard Catalyst Child Health Symposium, Boston, 7th October 2015. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact "Translating 'developmental origins' to benefit women and babies in low- and middle-income countries". Invited plenary speaker, 3rd Annual Harvard Catalyst Child Health Symposium, Boston, 7th October 2015.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
 
Description Caroline Fall: Fetal and maternal nutrition and the origins of diabetes, House of Commons, London 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? Yes
Type Of Presentation Keynote/Invited Speaker
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Awareness among 50 parliamentary members, members of food industry

Likely impact on policy
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description Caroline Fall: Insulin pump therapy in children with type 1 diabetes; the Southampton experience. Grand Round 13 October 2011 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Grand Round, Southampton General Hospital Department of Child Health.

Increased knowledge among clinicians
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2011
 
Description Caroline Fall: Invited presentation at NERC workshop on 'Early life developmental effects: unifying evolutionary and biomedical perspectives', Falmouth, 9th to 12th September 2015. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Invited presentation at NERC workshop on 'Early life developmental effects: unifying evolutionary and biomedical perspectives', Falmouth, 9th to 12th September 2015.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
 
Description Caroline Fall: MRC Life Magazine article (Jun 2014) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact An article advertising the David Barker Commemorative meeting, "The Future of the Science David Barker Inspired", organised by MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit and University of Southampton

Highlighting the commemorative event and work of the unit
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
 
Description Caroline Fall: Mothers, babies and the global diabetes epidemic 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Invited speaker to the NEEDLES club annual meeting (medical and lay audience), Southampton 4 June 2016
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
 
Description Caroline Fall: talk about research in India to a group of lay people in the city of Basingstoke 2nd November 2014 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Talk sparked discussion and questions

May lead to funding opportunities
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Clive Osmond, invited talk, epidemiology seminar, Jamaica 2013 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Type Of Presentation Keynote/Invited Speaker
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Approx 30 audience, increased understanding of lifecourse statistical analysis

Increased understanding of lifecourse analysis in a broad scientific audience
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description Clive Osmond: Conditional Growth Models. Talk given to the International Conference of the Developmental Origins of Health and Adult Disease Society, Cape Town, South Africa, 8th November 2015 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Clive Osmond: Conditional Growth Models. Talk given to the International Conference of the Developmental Origins of Health and Adult Disease Society, Cape Town, South Africa, 8th November 2015
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
 
Description Clive Osmond: Curious Mathematics: Talk given to the Mathematical Society of King Edward VI School, Southampton, 1st December 2014 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Schools
Results and Impact Curious Mathematics: Talk given to the Mathematical Society of King Edward VI School, Southampton, 1st December 2014
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Clive Osmond: Inaugural lecture (May 2014) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Clive Osmond gate his inaugural lecture on 29 May 2014. It was entitled "Painting with numbers: exploring life's wonders"

Increased awareness of the work of the MRC LEU
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
 
Description College visit 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Undergraduate students
Results and Impact Informal discussion about DOHaD with ~100 nutrition students at BMN College, Mumbai, India
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description DOHaD - what is it and where is it going? 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact "DOHaD - what is it and where is it going?" Invited lecture, 2nd David Barker Memorial Symposium, Integrated School for Health Affairs, Bharati Vidyapeeth deemed University, Pune, India, 18th February 2017
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description DOHaD and diabetes in India 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact DOHaD and diabetes in India. Seminar series. Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism (OCDEM), 29th November 2017
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Developmental origins of health and disease 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact "Developmental origins of health and disease". Invited speaker to a lay audience; Nutrition of Girls and Women in Oregon, Moore Institute for Nutrition and Wellness, Portland, Oregon, USA, 14th May 2015.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
 
Description Developmental origins of heart disease and the IndEcho study 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact "Developmental origins of heart disease and the IndEcho study". Invited talk to Department of Cardiology, Christian Medical College Hospital, Vellore, India, 5th October 2016
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
 
Description Dr Sirazul Ameen sahariah Presentation at 19th annual Sneha meeting 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Presentation of the protocol of the SARAS KIDS study (follow-up of children born in MMNP) at the 19th annual workshop of Sneha-India, the annual meeting in India of research groups working in the DOHaD field.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
 
Description Early life programming: a driver of the global diabetes burden? 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Overview of DHaD research and diabetes. Invited speaker STENO conference, Copenhagen, 25th-27th May 2016 .
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
 
Description Ella Marley-Zagar: The impacts of climate change in Lao PDR 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Type Of Presentation Keynote/Invited Speaker
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Workshop on Natural Disasters and Climate Change in Asia, Malaysia, 5-7th November 2012

Likely future impact on national policy
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description Engagement with Excel Public School, Mysore 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Schools
Results and Impact We held a workshop event with students (and their teachers) of year 7 and 8 at a public school in Mysore, India where we discussed aspects of nutrition, sexual and reproductive health, and lifestyle including addictions. There was also a question and answer session with the students asking us various queries and raising issues for discussion. After further discussion with the school principal and head teacher, we will carry out such activities on a rolling basis (annually). We also have plans to engage with the students to obtain their views on health education in schools and how it can be tailored to their needs.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Engagement with Hoysala Karnataka Sangha, Mysore 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact We held discussions with the board members of this voluntary organisation/NGO which supports needy students to: a) inform them about our research activities and b) to engage with their residents for participating in and contributing to our research activities.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Engagement with JSS Medical College and Hospital, Mysore 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact We were invited to meet the Dean, Medical Director, the Director of Research and other key members of the faculty of JSS Medical College and Hospital, Mysore. Both teams presented their work and interests. The main outcome was to agree to pool resources and explore opportunities for collaborative research grants in future.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Engagement with Media, Mysore 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact A media person visited our research unit in Mysore as part of a series of programmes on women in science. He held discussions with us and highlighted the research work of the unit which was subsequently published in written media and the web.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Engagement with Research Participants from the Mysore Birth Records Cohort, Mysore (KK) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact We held an engagement with members of the Mysore Birth Records Cohort (who are now 60-80 years of age) and their carers in Mysore. The main aims were to seek their views on: 1) the information provided to them about the research for consent; 2) how they would like feedback from the results of the study; and 3) their interest in continued participation in the results. Our team presented the summary of the research followed by an interactive session. The response from the participants was very positive and they expressed satisfaction with the information provided and that they would like to continue to participate in the research.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Engagement with Research Participants from the Parthenon Cohort, Mysore (KK) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact We held an engagement with members of the Parthenon Cohort and their parents/carers in Mysore. The main aims were to seek their views on: 1) the information provided to them about the research for consent; 2) how they would like feedback from the results of the study; and 3) their interest in continued participation in the results. Our team presented the summary of the research followed by an interactive session. The response from the participants was very positive and they expressed satisfaction with the information provided and that they would like to continue to participate in the research.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Engagement with University of Aberdeen and other collaborators at Aberdeen (KK) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The University of Aberdeen unit hosted a workshop with participants from the University of Aberdeen, Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, Narayana Hospitals, Mysore, CSI Holdsworth Memorial Hospital, Mysore and the MRC LEU, Southampton. The main aims were to 1) share knowledge on brain imaging data analysis and data management and security; and 2) develop a grant application for the MRC Mental Health GCRF. We have submitted a grant application with Alison Murray and Kalyanaraman Kumaran as lead PIs.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Engagement with University of Aberdeen and other collaborators at Mysore 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Our unit hosted a workshop with participants from the University of Aberdeen, Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, Centre for the Study of Social Change, Mumbai and University of Southampton to develop new collaborations and grant applications on areas of mutual interest. Following that workshop, we have obtained joint funding for a pilot study in neuroimaging and for public engagement activities with our existing cohorts.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Engagement with Wellcome-DBT India Alliance Panel Members, Mysore 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Supporters
Results and Impact Our unit had a visit from two members of the Wellcome-DBT India Alliance Fellowship Panel. They went around our research unit and we held wide-ranging discussions on our research.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Epidemiology for Clinicians course, Southampton, Jan 2017 (K Kumaran) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact On the Faculty of Epidemiology for Clinicians course hosted by University of Southampton, aimed at delegates with both clinical and non-clinical backgrounds who are interested in a career in epidemiological research
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Inter-generational influences on linear growth 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact "Inter-generational influences on linear growth". Invited speaker at meeting on Research interventions to improve linear growth in infants and children. World Health Organization, Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health, Geneva, 21st March 2016.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
 
Description International consultation panel on birth defects, Pune India Mar 2016 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Discussion around appropriate maternal care before and during pregnancy
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
 
Description Invited plenary talk: British and Irish Hypertension Society annual meeting, 17 September 2019 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Update on the Barker Hypothesis and hypertension
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Invited talk - CHDF: The importance of the first one thousand days 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Invited by BMN College, Mumbai, India to give a talk entitled "The importance of the first one thousand days".
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Invited talk at British Nutrition Foundation, 27 February 2019 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Prof Caroline Fall met the Princess Royal at launch of a new book "Emerging risk factors for Cardiovascular Disease". The meeting heard findings of the new Task Force report from the BNG entitled Cardiovascular Disease: Diet, Nutrition and Emerging Risk Factors; 2nd Edition. The Princess Royal attended this event in her capacity as BNF Patron. Prof Fall, one of the experts involved in the Task Force, gave a talk entitled "Early life nutrition: the origins of cardiovascular disease".
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Invited talk: Biennial conference of the International DOHaD Society 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Invited talk: The TALENT Study (Transforming Adolescent Lives through Nutrition) at the DOHaD Society world congress
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Invited talk: Endocrine, nutrition, metabolism and cardiovascular seminar, Institute of Developmental Sciences, 26 March 2019 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Presentation "Early life origins of cardiometabolic disease: what have we learned in 25 years?
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Invited talk: Satellite symposium at International DOHaD Society world congress, 19 October 2019 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Presentation at biennial conference of the International DOHaD Society. "Complex interventions" in pre-conference satellite symposium on HeLTI and pre-conceptional intervention studies
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description K Kumaran: 9th World Congress on Developmental Origins of Health and Disease, Cape Town, South Africa. 8-11 November 2015. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Four presentations to multi-disciplinary audience at 9th World Congress on Developmental Origins of Health and Disease, Cape Town, South Africa. 8-11 November 2015.
- Components of height and the intergenerational change in height as predictors of body composition and CVD risk in young Indian adults.
- Does change in components of childhood height influence cardiovascular risk and cognitive function in Indian adolescents?
- Stunting at 18 years is predicted by femur length in utero.
- Lifecourse evolution of diabetes related phenotypes.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
 
Description K Kumaran: Annual Workshop 2015. Society for the Natal Effects of Health in Adults. 26-28 February 2016. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Evolution of hyperglycemia in young rural Indians. Presentation to post-grad and PhD students, multi-disciplinary professionals attending Annual Workshop 2015. Society for the Natal Effects of Health in Adults. 26-28 February 2016.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
 
Description K Kumaran: Research Design and Methodology. February 2016 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Involved in development and delivery of the Research Design and Methodology course, attended by multi-disciplinary professionals, Southampton, February 2016.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
 
Description Launch of Southampton India Centre, March 2019 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact A day of presentations of research in Southampton related to India; presentations from all departments of the university. Attended by Indian High Commissioner and his team, major grant donors, media, staff and students from all faculties, general public. Official launch of University of Southampton India Centre for Sustainable Growth and Innovation.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Longitudinal DOHaD studies in India 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact "Longitudinal DOHaD studies in India". Conference on South Asian Children's Environmental Health (CEH) organised by the Pacific Basin Consortium for Environmental Health, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, 15th November 2017
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Member Expert Panel to review MSC Nutrition and Dietetics at Symbiosis School of Biomedical Sciences, Pune (K Kumaran) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Contributed to curriculum review and modification of MSC course at Symbiosis International University
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
 
Description Presentation at 65th annual conference of the Society for Reproductive Investigation, San Diego, USA 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Invited presentation: Pre-conceptional interventions to improve child health outcomes. Invited talk at the 65th annual conference of the Society for Reproductive Investigation, San Diego, USA 9th March 2018.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Public Health Platform Technical Advisory Group meeting, Pune, Mar 2016 (K Kumaran) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Part of a public health platform in India aimed at capacity building in public health
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
 
Description Pune Public Health Conference 2014, School of Health Sciences, University of Pune and Joint State Conference of IPHA-IAPSM (K Kumaran) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Presentation to public health conference and IPHA-IAPSM on maternal health and pre-conceptional health
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description SK: CHAT workshop 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact We held a workshop on a priority setting activity called Choosing Healthplans All Together for local project teams in Ghana, Burkina Faso and South Africa
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Sarah Kehoe: Diets of Women of Reproductive Age in Mumbai Slums Provide Insufficient Intakes of Multiple Micronutrients (Mumbai Maternal Nutrition Project). Presentation at SNEHA 19th Annual conference, Hyderabad, Feb 2016 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Talk to developmental origins academics and students:
Diets of Women of Reproductive Age in Mumbai Slums Provide Insufficient Intakes of Multiple Micronutrients (Mumbai Maternal Nutrition Project)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
 
Description Sarah Kehoe: Identifying nutrition-sensitive interventions to improve maternal diet quality in rural Indian settings using value chain analysis. Presentation at Leverhulme Centre for Integrated Research on Agriculture and Health 5th Annual Conference, June 2015 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Talk to inter-disciplinary academics and students: Identifying nutrition-sensitive interventions to improve maternal diet quality in rural Indian settings using value chain analysis
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
 
Description Sarah Kehoe: Public Engagement Nutrition Activity, University of Southampton Science and Engineering Day, March 2015 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Schools
Results and Impact Talk to general public/families re nutrition at University of Southampton Science and Engineering Day
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
 
Description Sarah Kehoe: Understanding Diets in India, Lifelab 'Meet the Scientist' days, University of Southampton, Sept 14 - present 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Schools
Results and Impact Talks to 12-15 year-old school children: Understanding diets in India.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014,2015
 
Description Sarah Kehoe: Value Chains for Nutrition, CSSC Workshop, May 2015 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Talk to representatives of NGOs, policy makers from Indian government agencies and academics at the Value Chains for Nutrition in Maharashtra Stakeholder Workshop, CSSC, Mumbai
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
 
Description Sarah Kehoe:Vitamin B12 intake and its association with socio-demographic factors among women living in urban slums of Mumbai. Presentation at Nutrition Society of India Annual Conference, Hyderabad, Oct 2015 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Talk to nutrition academics and students:
Vitamin B12 intake and its association with socio-demographic factors among women living in urban slums of Mumbai
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
 
Description So you think you can do a pre-conceptional trial? 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact "So you think you can do a pre-conceptional trial? What we learned from the Mumbai 'samosa' trial". Invited plenary presentation at the 9th World Congress on Developmental Origins of Health and Disease, Capetown, South Africa, 11th November 2015.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
 
Description The 'thin-fat' Indian and developmental origins of health and disease 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact "The 'thin-fat' Indian and developmental origins of health and disease". Invited Keynote speaker, Wessex Paediatric Winter Meeting (organised by the Paediatric Innovation, Education and Research Network), Southampton General Hospital, 11th December 2015.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
 
Description The catch-up dilemma in low and middle-income countries; data from the COHORTS collaboration, MRC Unit seminar with Prof Clive Osmond 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact Seminar to colleagues in MRC Unit 11th December 2012 with Prof Clive Osmond
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2012
 
Description The fetal origins of type 2 diabetes 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact "The fetal origins of type 2 diabetes". Invited guest speaker to a lay audience, Center for Women's Health, Circle of Giving annual meeting, Portland, Oregon, USA,13th May 2015.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
 
Description The role of food-based approaches to improve pre-conceptional nutrition and birth outcomes 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact "The role of food-based approaches to improve pre-conceptional nutrition and birth outcomes". Invited presentation in Symposium on 'Do we need preconception nutrition interventions to improve birth outcomes beyond the prevention of neural tube defects? Current knowledge'. EB2015 Annual meeting of the American Nutrition Society, Boston, March 29th 2015.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
 
Description Translating 'developmental origins' to benefit women and babies in low- and middle-income countries 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact "Translating 'developmental origins' to benefit women and babies in low- and middle-income countries". Invited plenary speaker, 3rd Annual Harvard Catalyst Child Health Symposium, Boston, 7th October 2015.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
 
Description What is DOHaD and where is it going? 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact 2nd David Barker Memorial Symposium in India on Developmental Origins of Health and Disease, held at the Integrated Research School for Health Affairs, Bharati Vidyapeeth University, Pune, India. A lecture for clinicians on what DOHaD is all about, and its relevance for cinical care.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Workshop at Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad (KK) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact My colleague Dr Krishnaveni and I were invited to participate in a workshop by Dr Chandak at Hyderabad to discuss future research projects and also for us to train his team and others at their institute (mostly PhD students) on research methods. The teaching was interactive and well received. The discussions with his team resulted in the development of a project to investigate genetic determinants of vitamin D on the Parthenon Cohort in Mysore. The study received intramural funding from the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018