preparing for life the results

August 31st 2016UCD Sutherland School of Law | University College Dublin | Dublin | Ireland

9.00 - 9.30 Registration

9.30 - 10.00 Introduction • Professor Orla Feely, UCD Vice-President for Research, Innovation & Impact

• Noel Kelly, Tusla Child and Family Agency & former PFL Programme Manager

• Senator Áodhán Ó Ríordáin, Environment and Sustainable Development, and Gaeltacht Affairs

• Fergal Lynch, Secretary General, Department of Children and Youth Affairs

10.00 - 10.45 Keynote (1) Professor Richard Tremblay (UCD School of Public Health, Physiotherapy and Sports Science & University of Montreal) - “Why preventive interventions need to start during pregnancy, at the latest: An intergenerational perspective”

10.45 - 11.15 Coffee Break

11.15 - 12.15 Dr. Orla Doyle (UCD School of Economics & UCD Geary Institute for Public Policy) – “Presentation of Preparing for Life: The Results”

12.15 - 12.30 Q&A

12.30 - 1.30 Lunch

1.30 - 3.00 Presentation of PFL Sub-Studies • Edel McGlanaghy (University of Edinburgh) – “Home based educational intervention to improve perinatal outcomes for a disadvantaged community: A randomised control trial”

• Deirdre Coy (UCD Geary Institute for Public Policy) – “Healthy child, healthy siblings? Hospital use in Preparing for Life families”

• Dr. Christine O’Farrelly (Imperial College London) – “The view from the classroom fl oor: What can the PFL children tell us about school readiness?”

• Ailbhe Booth (UCD School of Psychology & UCD Geary Institute for Public Policy) – “What about the non-participants? Studying the parents and children in the community who did not take part in PFL”

3.00-3.45 Keynote (2) Dr. Kieran O’Donnell (McGill University & the Ludmer Centre http://ludmercentre.ca) – “Early life infl uences on the epigenome and relevance for child development”

3.45 Conference close – Refreshments

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