Upcoming HeLTI ECR Seminar 

 

When: Tuesday February 25 at 8:00 EST (13:00 GMT; 15:00 SAST; 18:30 IST; 21:00 CST)

Presenters: Dr. Alessandra Prioreschi, Fiona Bennin, Sarah Cantrell and Helene Theunissen, PhD Students at University of Witwatersrand

Topic: Qualitative insights describing postpartum barriers to wellbeing and needs, to promote healthy mother-infant dyads

Brief Description: This presentation will describe the qualitative perspectives from postpartum mothers recruited to the PLAY study Community Advisory Group (CAG), in Soweto, South Africa. These insights form part of Helene, Sarah and Fiona's PhD.  

 

 

 

When: Thursday March 20 at 8:00 EDT (12:00 GMT; 14:00 SAST; 17:30 IST; 20:00 CST)

Presenter: Dr. Amanda Raffoul, Assistant Professor at University of Toronto

Topic: TBD

Brief Description: The prevention of disordered eating and eating disorders through public health policy

 

 

When: Monday April 14 at 8:00 EDT (12:00 GMT; 14:00 SAST; 17:30 IST; 20:00 CST)

Presenter: Dan Sellen, PhD, Professor at University of Toronto and Jenna Hickey, Lead Reseach Coordinator

Topic: TBD

Brief Description: On the topic of knowledge translation / mobilization some work one of my teams has been doing with CANWACH on gender transformation of nutrition programs using Global Affairs Canada’s feminist development agenda translated through the “GTFN” framework adopted by Scaling Up Nutrition and a range of NGO’s may be relevant. Methodological highlights include c-creative approaches to MNCHN-program transformative tool design and testing.

 

 

When: Frida May 2 at 8:00 EDT (12:00 GMT; 14:00 SAST; 17:30 IST; 20:00 CST)

Presenter: Edith Breton, PhD

Topic: TBD

Brief Description: Eeating disorders and their symptoms, and how we can combine approaches from different fields (ex., genetics, psychology/psychiatry, neuroscience, etc) to better understand eating disorders in the hope of better preventing/treating them

 

 

When: Monday June 2 at 8:00 EDT (12:00 GMT; 14:00 SAST; 17:30 IST; 20:00 CST)

Presenter: Kalynaraman Kumaran, DM, FFPH and Kumar Gavali, PhD

Topic: TBD

Brief Description: TBD