Announcements
Future Generations Day 2026: March 20, 2026
We join in marking it alongside our colleagues at the US DOHaD and the Latin American DOHaD Regional (LA-DOHaD) societies.
The science of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease tells us that health is shaped from before birth, by environment, nutrition, stress, and experience. The conditions we create today will influence the biology and well-being of generations to come.
Future Generations Day is a moment to reflect on that responsibility.
Image by Gabriele Utz from Pixabay
This year for International Women’s Day, March 8, 2026, DOHaD Canada honours Ethel Margaret Burnside and her midwives and nurses; women who cared for mothers and newborns, creating the records that would ultimately give rise to the field we now call DOHaD.
Learn more about Ethel Margaret Burnside, whose early 20th-century work organizing midwives to visit mothers across Hertfordshire created one of the first major datasets on early-life health and infant development.
Ethel Margaret Burnside (from, Barker 2003)
Congrats to DOHaD Canada member Kristin Connor for receiving the Nick Hales Award from the International DOHaD Society, one of the two most prestigious awards for excellence in perinatal and DOHaD research. Kristin delivered a plenary address to the Congress on her DOHaD research and scientific journey. Argentina, September 2025
DOHaD Canada Co-Presidents Kristin Conor and Tim Regnault at DOHaD World Congress 2025.
Congrats to all DOHaD Canada supporters and attendees that helped make this Congress a success! Many thanks to the Congress organizing committee and society friends at @la-dohad.bsky.social for a great meeting!
Now looking forward to planning #DOHaD2027 in Japan!
