From conception to adulthood: exploring lifelong outcomes of IVF children
Abstract
The Nordic countries provide unique possibilities to do long term follow up on individuals and full populations using the wide variety of linkable registries covering health, medicine use, socioeconomy, educational progress, income etc. The access to registries will be described and an example will be given showing the work on long term health outcomes for children after invitro fertilization.
About the speaker
Max Petzold is the Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University of Gothenburg, responsible for issues regarding digitalisation, open science, ethics, information security, sustainability and internationalisation related to research. Max Petzold is a Full Professor of Biostatistics and previously directed the Swedish National Data Service, SND and the School of Public Health and Community Medicine within the Department of Medicine. As a statistician, he has a wide research range, but with a bias towards global public health and Nordic registry-based studies.