The consortium includes 6 partners from 5 countries (France, Germany, Ireland, The Netherlands, Spain).
Our Research
- Childhood Obesity Surveillance Initiative (COSI)
- HRB Centre for Health and Diet Research (HRB-CHDR)
- Lifeways Cross-Generational Study
- Food for Health Ireland (FHI)
- Food Dudes Programme
- First 1000 days Strategies to Prevent Childhood Obesity (EndObesity)
- Early Life Programming of Childhood Health (ALPHABET)
- Diet and Lifestyle Factors and Metabolic Phenotype Contribution to Cancer Risk
- Previous Research
First 1000 days Strategies to Prevent Childhood Obesity (EndObesity)
Monday, 15 November, 2021
The EndObesity project is a unique study aims to develop, implement and evaluate innovative, multi-disciplinary strategies for prevention of childhood obesity by targeting family-based lifestyle factors in the preconception period, pregnancy and early-childhood, covering the first 1000 days of life.
The project coordinator is Dr Romy Gaillard (Erasmus University Medical Center, The Netherlands). The project principal investigator in Ireland is Assistant Professor and Ad Astra Fellow Dr Catherine Phillips. Postdoctoral research fellows Dr Niamh McGrath and Dr Aisling O’Donnell have recently joined the team to work on this project.
First, the project will identify, from preconception to early-childhood, facilitators and barriers for family-based behaviour patterns associated with childhood obesity and develop dynamic population-based prediction models for early identification of children at high risk of overall obesity and an unhealthy obesity phenotype. Second, evidence-based innovative intervention strategies for childhood obesity prevention will be developed by optimizing family lifestyle and nutrition in the preconception period, pregnancy and early-childhood using population-level strategies and more personalized intervention strategies for higher risk groups. Finally, the project will implement and evaluate childhood obesity prevention strategies through novel and existing partnerships with health care, governmental, educational and industry stakeholders and parent-childhood organizations addressing identified facilitators and barriers and using evaluation studies.
The project is supported by an award of €1,380,000 from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the ERA-NET Cofund action (no 727565) through the Joint Programming Initiative “A Healthy Diet for a Healthy Life” (JPI HDHL)-INTIMIC call “Prevention of unhealthy weight gain and obesity during crucial phases throughout the lifespan (PREPHOBES)”. National funding was awarded from the HRB.