We are delighted to have Annie Duchesne, PHD, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology at the University of Northern British Columbia present on the Development Origin of Health and Disease: A Sex and Gender Perspective.

The idea that early life experiences, particularly stress, "program" health trajectories is central to the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) hypothesis. In support of this model, early life stress exposure is often found to increase health risks for a variety of physical and psychological conditions with men and women being differentially affected. Presenting results from a study that looked at the relation between gestational stress and pubertal timing, I will discuss how both sex and gendered variables might interact to differentially shape the relation between early life stress and health.

Please join us at the UHNBC for the inaugural presentation of the Brown Bag Lunch Series for the 2017-2018 season. If you can't be there in person, try one of our virtual options:

via WebEx at https://innovationdevelopment.webex.com; Meeting Password: brownbag

or by Teleconference at 1-877-385-4099, passcode: 8353420#.

Registration is not required.