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Contact Details

Email
barbara.galland@otago.ac.nz
Position
Professor
Department
Department of Women's and Children's Health (Dunedin)
Qualifications
PhD BSc(Hons) NZCS
Research summary
Paediatric sleep health, sleep measurement, sleep disordered breathing, sleep and obesity
Teaching
  • NEUR301 Current topics in neuroscience
  • NEUR455 Sleep
  • ELM2 Case tutor

Research

  • Sleep related breathing disorders
  • Sleep and academic outcomes
  • Sleep development and measurement
  • The role of sleep in obesity
  • Sleep and Type 1 Diabetes
  • Sudden Unexpected Death in Infancy

Barbara Galland heads the paediatric sleep research group within the Department of Women’s & Children’s Health. She has published more than 100 scientific research and review articles, mainly in the field of child sleep health within a multi-disciplinary programme of research that investigates the role of sleep and sleep disturbance in a range of health outcomes. More specifically, her research interests include studying the effects of sleep and breathing disorders in children and adolescents on behaviour, cognition and academic performance.

Other research focuses on the role that sleep plays in overweight and obesity, sleep related disturbances in children with Type 1 diabetes, and the biological mechanisms underpinning Sudden Unexpected Death in Infancy. Studies of sleep disordered breathing and sleep measurement have contributed to many international collaborative research projects. She currently co-chairs the Paediatric Council of the Australasian Sleep Association and is on the editorial board of Sleep Medicine Reviews and Behavioral Sleep Medicine.

Publications

Wall, C. R., Roy, N. C., Mullaney, J. A., McNabb, W. C., Gasser, O., Fraser, K., … Galland, B. C., … Lovell, A. L. (2024). Nourishing the infant gut microbiome to support immune health: Protocol of SUN (seeding through feeding) randomized controlled trial. JMIR Research Protocols, 13, e56772. doi: 10.2196/56772 Journal - Research Other

Brosnan, B., Haszard, J. J., Meredith-Jones, K. A., Wickham, S.-R., Galland, B. C., & Taylor, R. W. (2024). Screen use at bedtime and sleep duration and quality among youths. JAMA Pediatrics. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2024.2914 Journal - Research Article

Jackson, R., Gu, C., Haszard, J., Meredith-Jones, K., Galland, B., Camp, J., Brown, D., & Taylor, R. (2024). The effect of prebedtime behaviors on sleep duration and quality in children: Protocol for a randomized crossover trial. JMIR Research Protocols, 13, e63692. doi: 10.2196/63692 Journal - Research Other

Fangupo, L. J., Haszard, J. J., Russell-Camp, T., Taylor, R. W., Richards, R., Galland, B. C., & Camp, J. (2024). The measurement of young children's nocturnal sleep health and the development of the Perception of Infant and Toddler Sleep Scale (PoITSS) in Aotearoa New Zealand whānau (families). Sleep Health. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1016/j.sleh.2024.07.004 Journal - Research Article

Haszard, J. J., Jackson, R., Morrison, S., Meredith-Jones, K. A., Galland, B. C., Beebe, D. W., Elder, D. E., & Taylor, R. W. (2024). Losing sleep influences dietary intake in children: A longitudinal compositional analysis of a randomised crossover trial. International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition & Physical Activity, 21(1), 61. doi: 10.1186/s12966-024-01607-5 Journal - Research Article

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