Healthcare professionals, researchers, and those interested in diabetes prevention and management.

Join the Diabetes across the Lifecourse: Northern Australia Partnership in person in Darwin, online, or from our satellite sites in Alice Springs and Cairns, to find out about ‘Improving Care for Diabetes across the Lifecourse’.

The DIABETES across the LIFECOURSE: Northern Australia Partnership is led by a team at Menzies School of Health Research (Menzies) with support and involvement from a range of health services and organisations. It includes researchers, policy makers and health service providers.

The aim of the Partnership is to improve the health and wellbeing of people in our region by working together to grow and share knowledge about diabetes, strengthen systems of care and services for people with diabetes, and develop prevention strategies.

Working in partnership is essential to translating research outcomes into practice and achieving sustainable health outcomes.

Program

The program has been developed in response to requests for critical research findings to be applied to enhance the clinical management of youth type 2 diabetes (T2D) and diabetes in pregnancy in the northern Australian context.

Morning Presentations and Panel Discussions

From 8am – 1pm

• Keynote speaker presentations
• Case-study panel discussions

Registration is essential 

• Register Morning Presentations and Panels

Afternoon Workshop

From 2 – 4:30pm

• Practical session for all stakeholders including policy makers, clinicians, community members and health services.

Registration is essential 

• Register Afternoon Workshop (in person)

Keynote Speakers

Professor Kristen Nadeau, Indigenous Professor of Paediatric Endocrinology and Vice Chair of Clinical Research in the Department of Paediatrics, University of Colorado, USA.

Professor Nadeau’s work focuses on reducing ling-term complications of youth-onset diabetes and obesity. She is Co-PI of the NIH ST2OMP study of bariatric surgery in youth-onset T@D and Vice Chair for a study investigating the precursors of T@D in youth.

Professor Helen Murphy, Professor of Medicine in Diabetes and Antenatal Care at the University of East Anglia, and practicing clinician at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital NHS Trust, UK.

Professor Murphy runs a diabetes pregnancy research program to support women with diabetes to achieve pregnancy glucose targets required for optimal mother and baby health outcomes. She co-led the Conceptt Continuous Glucose  Monitoring Trial (CGM), resulting in international changes in clinical practice. CGM is now the recognised standard of care for pregnant women with T10.

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