Growing Up in New Zealand seminar with Polly Atatoa Carr
Date / Time: 11 August 2014, 4-5pm
Venue: TT.1.05, University of Waikato
Polly Atatoa Carr
Dr Polly Atatoa Carr
Associate Director, Growing up in New Zealand, Waikato Clinical School Child Health Unit, Waikato District Hospital
Dr Polly Atatoa Carr is an Associate Director of the Growing Up in New Zealand study, based at the Waikato Clinical School, and a Public Health Physician in the Child Health Unit at Waikato Hospital. Polly has broad interests and experience in population health and child development and is particularly passionate about how we translate population-based evidence into policies and programmes that improve outcomes, and eliminate inequities, for families.
Growing Up in New Zealand: Now we are Two
Growing Up in New Zealand is our country's most contemporary longitudinal study which has gathered information from a cohort of approximately 7000 children and their families since before birth. A number of data collection waves have been conducted during the first 1000 days of life (from conception to age two years) of the Growing Up in New Zealand children, a period in the life course acknowledged as being critically important for shaping multiple outcomes including health and wellbeing, cognitive and educational achievement, and later behaviours. This seminar will describe recent findings from Growing Up in New Zealand, including the achievement of milestones as well as aspects of family, household, environmental and societal interactions that are important influences on the development of children to two years of age (as well as potentially markers of vulnerability). Also provided will be discussion of the opportunities to maximise the utility of Growing Up in New Zealand's unique and rich national resource to ensure that we can realise the full potential of all our children, in the context of their families, whānau and wider communities through effective analysis, policy and programme development.
Please RSVP by 4 August, 2014 for catering purposes: [email protected]
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