2024 Scientific Meeting of the Canadian DOHaD Society

The 7th DOHaD Canada Annual Scientific Meeting was held in Vancouver, BC from June 3 to 4, 2024.

The theme was “the role of early life from molecules to communities.”

The CIHR Institute of Gender and Health generously funded two trainee awards to recognize the best integration of sex as a biological variable and/or gender as a social determinant of health into research.

The winner of the oral presentation award award is
Jess Hercus (Simon Fraser University; Supervisor: Julian Christians) for a talk entitled:
“Do effects of prenatal nutrition on cardiovascular and metabolic health depend on gonadal sex and/ or chromosomal sex?”

The winner of the poster presentation award is
Elisabeth Balin Xie (University of Calgary; Supervisor: Dr. Lianne Tomfohr-Madsen) for a poster entitled:
“Pandemic objective hardship during pregnancy and child social-emotional outcomes at 2 years of age: A secondary analysis of the Pregnancy During the Pandemic Cohort”