A bio-psycho-social model of weight development in infancy

Kristiane博士的研究重点是探索婴儿期体重发展的遗传，社会和行为风险因素。她使用来自双子座双胞胎研究的数据，以更好地了解社会经济，行为和遗传因素如何相互关联和相互作用，从生命的一开始就塑造体重发展。在她的博士学位，克里斯蒂安将探讨如何婴儿喂养方法，社会经济地位和遗传倾向有助于和相互作用，以影响婴儿期体重的快速发展。她将利用这些见解为一种新的数字干预提供信息，以支持父母和健康的婴儿体重在生命的头两年发展，与最佳开端移动的应用程序“Baby Buddy”合作。

Kristiane's PhD research focuses on exploring genetic, social, and behavioural risk factors for weight development across infancy. She uses data from the Gemini Twin Study to better understand how socioeconomic, behavioural, and genetic factors are related to and interact with one another to shape weight development right from the very start of life. Across her PhD, Kristiane will explore how infant feeding methods, socioeconomic standing, and genetic propensity contribute to and interact with one another to influence rapid weight development in infancy. She will use these insights to inform a novel digital intervention to support parents and healthy infant weight development in the first two years of life, in partnership with Best Beginnings Mobile App 'Baby Buddy'.