Monthly Archives: October 2019

INFANT represented at GHC 2019

By |2020-11-22T12:36:05+00:00October 29th, 2019|

Tuesday 29 October 2019 Earlier this month, our PhD student Alison O 'Shea attended the Grace Hopper Celebration in Orlando, Florida. Read all about Alison's experience below. - The Grace Hopper Celebration is a yearly event which invites technologists from all over the world to come together and celebrate women in computing. This year’s celebration [...]

Success for INFANT team at ISA 2019

By |2020-11-22T12:36:23+00:00October 17th, 2019|

Thursday 17 October 2019 Congratulations to our PhD researcher Anne Helps who won runner up prize for her poster ‘Analysis of Irish Inquiry Reports relating to Pregnancy Loss Services'. She received the award at the International Stillbirth Alliance's 11th Annual Conference in Madrid, last week. ISA’s annual conference is one of the most important events of the year for a [...]

New Research: Caesarean Section Delivery & Childhood Obesity

By |2020-11-22T12:37:29+00:00October 14th, 2019|

Monday 14 October 2019 Babies born by planned caesarean are more likely to be obese in early childhood The research, published in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, discovered that planned caesarean birth was a significant predictor of obesity at age two, however this association was not apparent by the time children were four-and-a-half years old. The [...]