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CPC Talks

Reconceiving the systems of health

CPC Talks is the Charles Perkins Centre's series presenting our leading global experts talking about their latest research on obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease and their related conditions.

A clinician's experience with severe obesity | Dr Kathryn Williams

Tuesday 29 October 2024 | Dr Kathryn Williams, leader of CPC’s Lifespan Obesity project node, and recipient of CPC Jennie Mackenzie Research Fund to establish a platform for the comprehensive study of severe and complicated obesity in a family context at the Nepean Blue Mountains Family Metabolic Health Clinic.

Wearables in research and public health: Current and future potential

7 September 2023 | Exploring Professor Stamatakis's wearables research program and introducing the functions and vision of the Mackenzie Wearables Research Hub. View the event on our YouTube Playlist.

Reconceiving the systems of health: The Charles Perkins Centre and how to 'do' multidisciplinary

15 August 2023 | View the talk by our Academic Director Professor Stephen J Simpson AC on our YouTube playlist

Children are our future: Talking sleep and modelling in childhood overweight and obesity

10 October 2023 | Chaired by Professor Louise Baur, this session features presentations from Professor Rachael Taylor and Professor Alison Hayes and together they explore the surprising links between sleep and weight status in young children, and implications of results from health economic modelling of child growth from early life.

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