Date | Topic | Focus Areas |
Title |
Speaker |
Registration/
Presentation handouts |
28 January 2022 | What are the major challenges facing women’s and children’s health today and beyond? |
- Introduce HELMS framework/ foundation and what the webinar series hopes to achieve in 2022.
- It starts with the vicious cycle and what are the entry points to address the challenges (diabetes, diet, sedentary lifestyle)
- What a virtuous healthy life cycle looks like?
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Women’s and Children’s Health in Singapore - Issues, Threats and Potential Solutions |
Assoc Prof Fabian Yap Kok Peng Head and Senior Consultant Endocrinology Service, KKH
Assoc Prof Chua Mei Chien Head and Senior Consultant Department of Neonatology, KKH Director, KK Human Milk Bank |
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25 February 2022 |
What can a pre-conception service do to improve women’s and children’s health? |
- Why is pre-conception health important for fertility?
- What are the factors affecting fertility?
- Why is pre-conception health the first step to a healthy child and the mother’s health?
| The Science of Preconception – A Golden Opportunity to Optimise Women’s and Children’s Health in Singapore | Dr Ku Chee Wai Associate Consultant Department of Reproductive Medicine, KKH
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25 March 2022 | What is missing in the current pregnancy care model, and what can we do to address it? |
- What are the physiological changes in pregnant women during the different trimesters?
- How do we address gestational weight gain and gestational diabetes?
- How to have a healthy delivery?
| Pregnancy as a stress test and a window to future health | Dr Serene Thain Consultant Department of Maternal Fetal Medicine; Lead, one-STop Obstetric high Risk (STORK) Centre KKH |
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22 April 2022 | How do BMI changes influence the RMNCH of women and children during early life? |
- What is a healthy BMI for women from pre-conception, pregnancy to post-partum?
- What are good feeding habits for babies?
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Nutrition through the Life Course | Dr Han Wee Meng Head & Senior Principal Dietitian Nutrition and Dietetics Department, KKH |
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27 May 2022 |
DYAD |
- What are the areas that both women and their child can be seen together?
- What are the benefits of coordinated care?
- What are the assessments and measurements that need to be recorded and monitored for both mother and child?
| Optimal Maternal Health & Wellness and Importance of Child Health | Prof Tan Kok Hian
Head, Perinatal Audit & Epidemiology Unit; Senior Consultant, Department of Maternal Fetal Medicine; KKH
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Prof Chan Yoke Hwee
Chairman, Division of Medicine;
Senior Consultant, Children's Intensive Care Unit; KKH
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24 June 2022 | How can we optimise the mental health of pre-pregnancy and pregnant women? |
- What are the stresses and signs of mental health issues to watch out for in pre-conception, pregnant and post-partum women?
- How to address and optimise the mental health of pre-conception, pregnant and post-partum women?
| Optimising maternal mental health in the perinatal period | Dr Chua Tze Ern Head & Senior Consultant Women's Mental Wellness Service, KKH | Click here to register |