ISGA in Zagreb

September 5-8, 2024

Following the successful congress in Vilnius in August of 2022, our next congress of Human Growth and Clinical Auxology is planned to be held in Zagreb, Croatia from September 5-8 of 2024.

Access to the congress organisation, abstract submission process, travel and accommodation information can be found here.

Registration fees will be discounted for ISGA members. To join ISGA click here.

ISGA is offering travel awards for early career researchers who are current Members of ISGA or who will join upon receipt of the award. Early career researchers are persons who are either studying for a PhD or M.D. or have received such a degree within the past four years. The award can be applied to travel expenses, registration, accommodation, and subsistence up to a limit of 800 euros. If you wish to apply, submit your abstract through the abstract submission page of the meeting website and tick the box indicating you wish to be considered. You will be notified before the deadline of early bird registration at the reduced price for members.

Human Growth and Development: Scientific Advances and Applications for Clinical Practice and Population Health

Presentations welcomed from clinicians, clinical researchers, nutritionists, epidemiologists, statisticians, social scientists, human biologists.

Topics of interest:

  • Environmental/Genetic influences on (prenatal and postnatal) growth and pubertal development

    • Nutrition, stress, environmental toxicants, climate change, microbiome, genetics, epigenetics

  • Early development and long-term health outcomes

    • Windows of opportunities (sensitive periods), disease prediction and risk stratification

  • Skeletal diseases and genetic growth disorders

  • Growth, obesity and body composition assessment

    • Nutritional assessment, growth charts, growth velocity, tempo

    • Identifying altered growth and tracking severe obesity

  • Innovative statistical methods to analyze growth

The following researchers have accepted invitations to speak:

Babette Zemel, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA

Tim Cole, Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health at University College London, London, UK

Linda Adair, Department of Nutrition and Fellow, Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, USA

Lawrence Schell, Department of Anthropology, and Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, USA

Jelena Šarac, Institute for Anthropological Research, Zagreb, Croatia

Nicola L. Hawley, Department of Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, USA

Pétur Benedikt Júlíusson, National Institute of Public Health; Department of Clinical Science, University of Bergen; Children and Youth Clinic, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway

Will Johnson, Epidemiology and Population Health, School of Sport, Exercise and Health Science, Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK

Paula van Dommelen, The Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research (TNO), Leiden, The Netherlands