Thursday, 15 June 2017
Edgar Diabetes and Obesity Research (EDOR) members have been successful in obtaining Health Research Council (HRC) Pacific project grants.
Dr Rosalina Richards, Associate Professor Barbara Galland, EDOR director Professor Rachael Taylor and colleague Associate Professor Ruth Fitzgerald, have been awarded funding for 32 months to investigate sleep and well-being among Pacific children and adolescents.
Recent research by EDOR members has identified that obesity can be tackled by simple sleep interventions. This new project will explore Pacific perspectives about sleep, health and interventions, to help inform effective sleep interventions for these communities.
Dr Ofa Dewes, a member of the EDOR advisory board, has also been successful in obtaining an HRC Pacific project grant to investigate the biological differences between Pacific adolescents in the way they respond to sugar.
Read more about these projects on the HRC website
- Sleep and well-being among Pacific children and adolescents, Dr Rosalina Richards (principal investigator)
- Differences in fructose uptake in Pacific adolescents, Dr Ofa Dewes (principal investigator)
Follow the news on EDOR sleep research
- Otago research suggests child obesity can be tackled by simple sleep interventions, University of Otago website, 7 March, 2017
- Sleep lesson halve obesity rate in babies, ODT, 8 March, 2017
- How sleep can shrink BMI, Health Food Guide, March 2017
- Baby sleep habits may cut obesity risk, Yahoo website, 19 May 2017
- Sleep intervention training could prevent babies from becoming obese toddlers, Diabetes UK, 19 May 2017
