Conference: “The Long Shadow Of Childhood Adversity On Health: Evidence From Ireland And Policy Implications”
Venue: ESRI, Whitaker Square, Sir John Rogerson’s Quay, Dublin 2
This conference will be opened by Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Ms Frances Fitzgerald TD on Thursday 27 June 2013.
There is growing evidence that childhood and particularly early childhood environment can have lifetime health consequences. Infancy and childhood often represent a “critical period” after which remedial intervention to alter subsequent outcomes is either ineffective or increasingly expensive. In this conference, researchers from two cohort studies, one of older people (TILDA) and the other of children (Growing Up in Ireland), will present evidence on the impact of child adversity on later health and well-being from a life-course perspective and consider the policy implications.
Keynote speakers:
Two internationally renowned Keynote speakers will address the conference. The first is Prof. Diana Kuh, one of the leading figures in life-course epidemiology. Professor Kuh is Director of the 1946 Birth Cohort in Britain and Director of the MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing. Prof. Kuh will discuss ‘childhood influences on lifelong health and ageing: evidence from the British 1946 birth cohort study’.
The second is Dr Dominic Richardson, an OECD social policy specialist on social spending in childhood who will discuss social spending across the child’s life cycle: international variation and its consequences.
PROGRAMME
09.00 Welcome: Professor Frances Ruane, Director, ESRI
09.10 Opening Address: Frances Fitzgerald TD, Minister for Children and Youth Affairs
09.30 Childhood Influences on Lifelong Health and Ageing: Evidence from the British 1946 Birth Cohort Study
Prof. Diane Kuh, Director of the 1946 Birth Cohort Study and the MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing
Session 1: Evidence from the TILDA Study
Chair: Prof. Frances Ruane (ESRI)
10.10 The Experience of Childhood Adversity and Disease Risk in Later Life
Dr Cathal McCrory, TCD
10.30 The Early-Life Causes and Later Life Consequences of Migration
Dr Irene Mosca, TCD
10.50 Questions and Answers
11.00 Short Refreshment Break
Session 2: Evidence from the GUI Study
Chair: Dr. Sean Denyer (Dept. Children and Youth Affairs)
11.30 Adverse Life Events in Childhood and Later Psychological Adjustment
Prof. James Williams, ESRI and Prof. Mark Morgan, TCD
11.50 Life Course Models of Health Inequalities: Evidence from the Growing Up in Ireland Cohort Study
Professor Richard Layte, ESRI
12.10 Social Spending Across the Child’s Lifecycle: International Variation and its Consequences
Dr Dominic Richardson, OECD
12.50 Questions and Answers
13.00 Close of Conference
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For further information on the Centre for Longitudinal Studies in Irelandplease visit the CLSI website at http://clsi.ie/