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Welcome to the Centre for Global Health and Human Development
Professor Noël Cameron talks about his research
The Centre, part of the School of Sport, Exercise & Health Sciences (SSEHS), includes scientists with broad interests in human population biology but with a common focus on maternal and child health and human growth and development, particularly within minority populations, and particularly within developing countries. There is also an emerging concentration of studies on lifestyles in the elderly with regard to bone health and nutrition.
Dr Stacy Clemes talks about her research
A theme running through the Centre is that of research in developing or transitional countries (e.g. South Africa, Bangladesh, India) and of the health risks of different ethnic groups in developed countries (e.g. South Asians in the UK, Mayans in the USA).
The Centre is described as “global” because of the international scope of its research. In addition to being actively involved in longitudinal birth cohort studies in Soweto-Johannesburg, South Africa (Birth to Twenty) and the UK (Born in Bradford), members of the centre also have ongoing research projects in Mexico, USA, Kenya, India, Bangladesh, Guatemala, and Portugal.
Dr Katherine Brooke-Wavell talks about her research
Research funding currently comes from the NHS-NIPR, MRC, ESRC, Child Growth Foundation, the Royal Society, SANPAD (South Africa-Netherlands research funding agency), the Wenner-Gren Foundation, and the Wellcome Trust. Current applications have been submitted to the MRC, British Heart Foundation, the Royal Society, Lifelong Health and Wellbeing Programme (cross funded by all UK Funding Councils).
The Annals of Human Biology, the official journal for the Society for the Study of Human Biology, is edited from within the research centre and supports the costs of an editorial assistant.
The continuing activities of the Centre include regular weekly meetings that alternate between a journal club and a research meeting. At the former a published paper is presented and at the latter ongoing research is discussed. Post-graduate students form an integral and important part of these meetings. They are not only expected to attend but they are actively encouraged to present papers and to take a creative role in the research discussions.
Contribution to the mission of the School of SEHS
The Centre for Global Health and Human Development contributes actively to the SSEHS mission statement through its pursuit of research of international standing carried out within an international research arena. It is clear that, more than almost any other research entity within the School, the Centre for Global Health and Human Development leads the SSEHS with regard to health research and is the primary contributor to the research theme entitled “Health, Physical Activity and the Prevention of Chronic Diseases”. The research projects of the Centre (see below) share objectives in the identification of the determinants of chronic diseases of lifestyle and in the development of effective sustainable interventions during childhood. An active research group within the Centre investigates the habitual determinants of physical activity including environmental and familial factors in bi-ethnic samples. Intervention research currently being undertaken includes the use of the Community Readiness Model to support dietary and physical activity initiatives in pre-adolescent girls, the development of an intervention to prevent overweight/obesity amongst preschool children in Bradford, and infant feeding interventions in India.
Current Research Projects
(attributed in this document to members of the Centre but most involve collaboration both nationally and internationally):
- Determinants of growth and obesity in a bi-ethnic sample: the Born in Bradford birth cohort study (Noel Cameron, William Johnson et al)
- Familial and environmental determinants of physical activity during childhood in a bi-ethnic sample: the Born in Bradford birth cohort study (Stacy Clemes, Noel Cameron, Ines Varela-Silva, Paula Griffiths, Silvia da Costa et al)
- Using Community Readiness Modelling to create sustainable interventions to prevent overweight and obesity in pre-adolescent girls (Noel Cameron, Paula Griffiths, Jo Kesten with Mary Nevill, Ines Varela-Silva)
- Social and economic modifiers of non-communicable disease of lifestyle in South Africa (Paula Griffiths, William Johnson et al)
- Environmental influences on infant growth in India (Paula Griffiths et al)
- Maternal and child health in Bangladesh (Emily Rousham et al)
- Mayan migrants in Mexico and the USA: causes of stunting and obesity (Ines Varela-Silva Hannah Wilson, Barry Bogin et al)
- MINA: Migration, Nutrition and Aging in Bangladeshi Women (Barry Bogin et al)
- Determinants of habitual physical activity (Stacy Clemes, Ines Varela-Silva et al)
- Determinants of risk for osteoporosis and interventions to promote bone health (Katherine Brooke-Wavell et al)
- Population genetics of non-communicable diseases of lifestyle (Sarabjit Mastana et al)
- The impact of diet and exercise on inflammation in the lung (Martin Lindley et al)
- Physical activity assessment: Bridging the gap between laboratory and field methods (Inês Varela-Silva, Stacy Clemes, Keith Tolfrey and Stuart Biddle)
- Genomic analysis of complex diseases (CAD, Diabetes, Rheumatoid Arthritis) among Native and migrant populations.(SS Mastana et al)
- Population genomic analysis among Indian and European populations (SS Mastana et al)
- Development of new forensic genetic markers (SS Mastana et al)
- Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of primary care exercise interventions on bone health (Katherine Brooke-Wavell, Rachel Duckham et al)
- Effects of high impact unilateral exercise on bone structure and neuromuscular function (Katherine Brooke-Wavell et al)
- Bone health and stress fracture risk in elite female athletes (Katherine Brooke-Wavell, Noel Cameron, Rachel Duckham et al)
- Influence of vibration on fall risk factors and bone metabolism in older people ( Katherine Brooke-Wavell, Heather Corrie et al)
- Influence of acute changes in blood pressure on pain and tactile sensation (Louisa Edwards et al)
- Impact of unmedicated hypertension of cognitive function in young adults (Louisa Edwards et al)
- Chemical markers of acute psychological stress (Louisa Edwards et al)
- Impact of blood pressure on pain processing using fMRI (Louisa Edwards et al)
- Asthmatics, lung inflammation, and diet (Martin Lindley, Sarabjit Mastana, Ash Varma)
- Impact of diet + exercise on lung inflammation (Martin Lindley, Sarabjit Mastana, Ash Varma)
- Exercise-Induced Asthma Phenotype of Elite Athletes (Martin Lindley et al)
- Flow Volume Look changes following Inspiratory Muscle Training in Asthamatics (Martin Lindley et al)
- Cardio – Pulmonary Function in adolescent athletes (Football players) (Martin Lindley et al)
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