Building Better Starts: Early Health, Development, and the Power of Linked Administrative Data

Join us for the Healthy Development Adelaide (HDA) and Women’s and Children’s Hospital Grand Round. 

The presentation will focus on the first 2000 days using the BEBOLD platform including over 1 million children born 1991 onwards in South Australia, and their parents. The results from three research projects will be presented, spanning BetterStart Group collaborations with obstetrician Dr Amanda Poprzeczny, neonatologist Dr Kathryn Martinello, and paediatrician Dr Meredith Forsyth. These research projects investigate the longer-term health and development outcomes of early life health exposures, and the intersection of hospital care and social services. The presentation will reflect on the power of collaboration to use administrative linked data for clinically-relevant research.

OUR SPEAKER

Rhiannon Pilkington is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Health, University of Adelaide, co-Director of the BetterStart group and the BEBOLD platform, and University of Adelaide Thriving Families co-lead with Professor John Lynch. She is an epidemiologist leading a translation focussed research program informing how we can ensure every child, young person and family receives the support they need.

Research areas span early childhood education and care, the first 2000 days, child protection, youth justice, and the use of quasi-experimental methods to investigate the longer-term impact of policies and programs on health, development and wellbeing outcomes.  

OUR CHAIR

Rachael Yates (HDA Ambassador), Executive Director of Nursing and Midwifery, Women’s and Children’s Health Network.

This event will be held in person and livestreamed online via MS Teams. All registrants will receive the MS Teams link 2 days prior to the event.

This event is free and open to everyone to attend from researchers, clinicians, students, government and the community.