Congress Programme

THURSDAY 22 April 2027

8:00 Breakfast 

9:00 Opening words: Linnea and Hasse Karlsson

Chair: TBA 

9:15 The Developmental Origins of Mental Health: Expanding the Aperture
Kieran O’Donnell, Yale Child Study Center and the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, Yale School of Medicine, USA

10:00 Focus on fathers in intergenerational transmission of mental health
Hasse Karlsson, Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Turku and Turku University Hospital, Finland

10:45 Break 

11:00 Start young, think broadly: how infection and inflammation contribute to non-communicable disease risk and inequalities across the life course
David Burgner: Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI) and the Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia 

11:45 Lunch 

Chair: TBA

13:15 Flash talks (five selected from posters)  

13:45  Coffee and poster session

15:00 Breaking the Cycle: Why Ending Adverse Childhood Experiences Is Essential for Safer, Healthier and More Prosperous Nations
Mark A Bellis, Public Health Institute, Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom  

15:45-16:00 Closing of the day 

19:00 Conference dinner (not included in the registration fee)
Venue: Grädda, Piispankatu 15, 20500 Turku, Finland

 

FRIDAY 23 April 2027

8:00 Breakfast 

Chair: TBA

9:00 Childhood Unpredictability as a Form of Early-Life Adversity: Implications for Development and Mental Health 
Riikka Korja, The Department of Psychology, University of Turku, Finland   

9:45 Early development of regulatory abilities as risk factor for later psychiatric illness
Raquel Costa, Lusófona University, Portugal  

10:30 Break  

11:00 From caregiving experience to emotion regulation: How the developing brain carries experience forward
Nim Tottenham, The Department of Psychology, Columbia University, USA  

11:45 Lunch

Chair: TBA 

13:15 Positive Childhood Experiences (PCE): What we should do despite adversity 
Linnea Karlsson, Centre for Population Health Research and the Department of Clinical Medicine, Public Health, and University of Turku and Turku University Hospital; Child Psychiatry, Turku University Hospital, Finland

14:00 From Roots to Reach: Building Representative and Inclusive Child Health Science
Hanan El Marroun, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Erasmus MC, the Netherlands 

14:45 Coffee and poster session 

15:45-16:00 Best poster award and closing of the congress