The Sansom Institute for Health Research (University of South Australia), in conjunction with the Centre for Intergenerational Health and Healthy Development Adelaide (University of Adelaide), is pleased to invite you to a Visiting Research Scholar Seminar.
Professor Michael Kramer MD is the Scientific Director of the Institute of Human Development, Child and Youth Health at the Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR). He is also James McGill Professor in the Departments of Pediatrics and of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health at the McGill University Faculty of Medicine in Montreal.
Professor Kramer is one of the world's leading perinatal epidemiologists and among his many outstanding scientific achievements, he is the lead investigator on the largest RCT ever conducted in the area of human lactation - the Promotion of Breastfeeding Intervention Trial (PROBIT) conducted in Belarus. Not only was PROBIT the first randomized trial of the WHO's Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative, but also having over 17,000 infant/mother pairs provided an opportunity to assess the direct relationship between a breastfeeding promotion intervention and health and development in mothers and infants.
