The First 1,000 Days Symposium was held Sept 4-5, 2018 at the iHotel and Conference Center in Champaign, IL. The event was hosted by the Family Resiliency Center, in partnership with the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Institute, and then ACES Office for Research.
The symposium focused on the first 1,000 days of life - the time spanning roughly between conception and a child’s second birthday - is a unique period of opportunity when the foundations of optimum health, growth, and neurodevelopment across the lifespan are established. Environmental exposures, including nutrition, stress, and environmental toxins, can interact with the child’s genetics during the first 1,000 days of a child’s life to have lifelong implications on their physical, mental and emotional health. The event highlighted the basic and applied transdisciplinary research being conducted at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign that is addressing this critical window of development using a cells-to-society framework.
View presentations from the event below.
The Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Institute Health Ideas Inaugural Address
Rafael Pérez-Escamilla hD, Dr. Honoris Causa, Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale School of Public Health
Welcome from Dr. Barbara Fiese, Director, Family Resiliency Center
Session 1: Cellular and Biological Influences in the First 1000 Days
Dr. Sue Schantz | “Through the Window of a Baby’s Eyes: Impact of prenatal factors on early cognitive development”
Dr. Sharon Donovan | “STRONG Kids: A cell-to-community approach to health in the first 1,000 days”
Dr. Naiman Khan | “Health Behaviors, Adiposity, and Childhood Cognitive Function”
Session 2: Family, Childcare, and Community Level Influences
Dr. Brent McBride | “Childcare as a Risk Factor for Early Childhood Obesity”
Dr. Barbara Fiese | “First Relationships: Family factors associated with health in the first 1,000 days”
Dr. Marian Fitzgibbon | “The Influences and Impact of Community-Level Interventions with Minority Preschool Children”
Session 3: Dissemination to Policy and Practice
Craig Gundersen | “The Critical Importance of SNAP for the First 1,000 Days in the United States”
Dr. Karen Tabb Dina | “Partnerships to Address Perinatal Mental Health Disparities”
Julianna Sellett, DNP, MBA, RN delivering “Reducing Disparity: Improving community health through cross-sector partnerships”
Closing Remarks from Dr. Sharon Donovan
First 1,000 Days Symposium Agenda - Downloadable PDF
Speaker and Panelist Information
Additional Information:
Agenda
SEPT. 4, 2018
I-Hotel Chancellor's Ballroom
3:30 p.m. Registration Opens
4:00 p.m. Welcome
Neal Cohen, PhD
Director, Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Institute
4:15 p.m. The Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Institute Health Ideas Inaugural Address:
“The First 1000 Days: The Foundation for Health and Brain Development”
Rafael Pérez-Escamilla, PhD, Dr. Honoris Causa
Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health
Yale School of Public Health
5:15p.m.- 6:45p.m. Poster Session and Reception
SEPT. 5, 2018
I-Hotel Chancellor's Ballroom
8:00 a.m. Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:30 a.m. Welcome and Overview Barbara Fiese, PhD Professor and Director, Family Resiliency Center
8:45 a.m. Cellular and Biological Influences in the First 1000 Days
Sue Schantz, PhD
Sharon Donovan, PhD, RD | Margarita Teran-Garcia, PhD, MD
Naiman Khan, PhD, RD
Session Moderator/Panelist:
Yuan-Xiang Pan, PhD
10:15 a.m. Coffee Break
10:30 a.m. Family, Childcare, and Community Level Influences
Brent McBride, PhD
Barbara Fiese, PhD
Marian Fitzgibbon, PhD
Session Moderator/Panelists:
Monika Stodolska, PhD
Kelly Bost, PhD
12:00-1:30 p.m. Lunch
1:30 p.m. Dissemination to Policy and Practice
Craig Gundersen, PhD
Karen Tabb Dina, PhD
Jonathan Woods, MSN, RN, NE-BC
Julianna Sellett, DNP, MBA, RN, CPHQ, CENP
Session Moderator/Panelists:
No CEU credits were offered at this Symposium.
Contact
Jennifer Themanson
Phone: 217-244-5119
Email: jthemans@illinois.edu
