Parents are missing out on evidence-based bottle feeding advice
Key messages Feeding babies with formula or bottles increases the risk of overweight and/or obesity in babies due to the…
Prevention in the first 2000 days
A new report is published detailing policy-relevant learnings on prevention in the first 2000 days. This knowledge synthesis was guided…
Core Outcome Set for Early intervention trials to Prevent Obesity in Childhood (COS-EPOCH)
Core Outcome Sets (COS) are agreed minimum sets of outcomes recommended for measurement in studies in specific health areas. Development…
New paper | A guide to searching clinical trials registers
Systematic reviews bring together existing evidence to answer specific research questions. Knowing how to find and include all the relevant…
New paper | The Complex Quest of Preventing Obesity in Early Childhood
In this perspective article, Stream 1 members describe some of the key challenges hindering effective and scalable early childhood obesity…
Interactivity, Quality, and Content of Websites Promoting Health Behaviours during Infancy: A six-year update of the Systematic Assessment
A 2015 systematic assessment of infant feeding websites and apps available in Australia found that 61% of websites were of…
New paper | A scoping review of outcomes commonly reported in obesity prevention interventions in children under 5 years
Evidence synthesis on the effectiveness of interventions to prevent obesity in early childhood is limited by heterogeneity in outcomes reporting,…
New paper | Cost-effectiveness of a community wide early childhood obesity prevention intervention
A new paper led by EPOCH-Translate CRE health economics team showed that a whole of community early childhood obesity prevention…
EPOCH collaboration authored one of the top cited papers in Pediatric Obesity
We are thrilled that an EPOCH Collaboration publication investigating the effectiveness of obesity prevention interventions in early infancy is one…