01/04/2009 On behalf of the research network Reproduction, Growth and Development, Karolinska Institutet, you are cordially invited to the following scientific meeting with international and national speakers: Growth and development in early life, health behaviour and obesity in later life Time: 26 May 2009 from 13.00 to 17.25. Venue: The Wallenberg Hall, Nobel Forum, Nobels väg 1, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. Welcome address by Professor Finn Rasmussen, Child and Adolescent Public Health Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. Part 1: Cohort studies 13.00-13.45 Dietary risk factors for the development of obesity in children. Professor Luis Moreno, Escuela Universitaria de Ciencias de la Salud, University of Zaragoza, Spain. 13.45-14.05 Growth from birth to adolescence. Implications for measures of body size and blood pressure. PhD Malin Kark, Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. 14.05-14.25 Physical activity, fitness and adiposity in children and adolescents. Results from the EYHS and AVENA Studies. PhD Francisco B Ortega, Unit for Preventive Nutrition, Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden; and Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, University of Granada, Spain. 14.25-15.10 Long-term consequences of the epidemic of childhood obesity. Professor Thorkild IA Sørensen, Institute of Preventive Medicine, Copenhagen University Hospital, Centre for Health and Society, Copenhagen, Denmark. 15.10-15.40 Coffee break Part 2: Intervention studies 15.40-16.25 Strategies to prevent childhood obesity: Time to look closer at the home environment. Dr Russ Jago, Department of Exercise, Nutrition & Health, Centre for Sport, Exercise & Health, University of Bristol, United Kingdom. 16.25-16.45 School-based childhood obesity prevention. Professor Claude Marcus, Department of Pediatrics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. 16.45-17.05 Implementation of an evidence-based school programme for healthy body weight - the SCIP school study. Associate Professor Liselotte Schäfer Elinder, Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. 17.05-17.25 Prevalence of obesity and overweight in 2-9 year-old Swedish children participating in Idefics, a European integrated project. Associate Professor Staffan Mårild, Department of Pediatrics, Institute of Clinical Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden. Closing words by Professor Finn Rasmussen. 17.40-19.30 Dinner buffet in Nobel Forum, first floor. There is no fee for attending the meeting and the dinner buffet. However, participants who wish to take part in the dinner buffet must signify their intention by sending a mail to malin.kark@ki.se no later than 20 May 2009. The number of participants in the dinner buffet is limited to 100 based on the first come-first served principle. Researchers and students from Karolinska Institutet are expected to sign up as members of the RGD network at http://researchnetworks.ki.se/converis/area/196. Please note that you can only sign up for the dinner buffet by sending a mail to Malin Kark. In addition, you are invited to look at recent papers from the Child and Adolescent Public Health Epidemiology team at Karolinska Institutet: http://ki.se/ki/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=26002&a=45994&l=en.