Professor Jane Harding

University Distinguished Professor
Professor of Neonatology
Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research)
ONZM, B.Sc., M.B.Ch.B., D.Phil., FRACP, FRSNZ

Contact details

Phone: +64 9 923 6439
Email: j.harding@auckland.ac.nz

Key Research interests

• Fetal and neonatal care
• Growth, development and fetal physiology
• Nutrition and growth factors
• Clinical trials
• Long-term follow-up
   

Research theme

Fetus and newborn

Professor Harding obtained her medical degree at the University of Auckland. She then trained in fetal physiology on a Rhodes Scholarship, completing her Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford. After specialist training as a Paediatrician in New Zealand, she completed her FRACP in neonatology. Her postdoctoral training was as a Fogarty Fellow at the University of California at San Francisco.

Professor Harding was appointed to the faculty of the University of Auckland in 1989 and was appointed Professor of Neonatology in 1997. She is currently Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) for the University of Auckland, and is a member of the Fetal and Neonatal Physiology research group of the University’s Liggins Institute.

Professor Harding’s research activities include clinical as well as basic physiological studies. Her main interests concern the interaction of nutrients and growth factors in the regulation of growth before and after birth, and the long-term consequences of treatments given around the time of birth.

Harding JE, Jaquiery AL, Hernandez CE, Oliver MH, Derraik JGB, Bloomfield FH. Animal studies of the effects of early nutrition on long-term health. In: van Goudoever H, Guandalini S, Kleinman R, editors. Early Nutrition: Impact on Short and Long-Term Health. Nestlé Nutrition Institute Workshops Series Pediatric Program 2011: 1-16.

Battin M, Bevan C, Harding JE. Growth in the neonatal period after repeat courses of antenatal corticosteroids: Data from the ACTORDS randomised trial. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, in press.

Harris DL, Battin MR, Weston PJ, Harding JE. Continuous glucose monitoring in newborn babies at risk of neonatal hypoglycaemia. Journal of Pediatrics, 157: 198-202, 2010. (Accompanied by editorial p180-182).

Todd SE, Oliver MH, Jaquiery AL, Bloomfield FH, Harding JE. Periconceptional undernutrition of ewes impairs glucose tolerance in their adult offspring. Pediatric Research 65: 409-413, 2009.

Rumball CWH, Bloomfield FH, Oliver MH, Harding JE. Different periods of periconceptional undernutrition have different effects on growth, metabolic and endocrine status in fetal sheep. Pediatric Research 66: 605-613, 2009.

Mildenhall L, Battin M, Bevan C, Kuschel C, Harding JE. Repeat doses of antenatal corticosteroids do not alter neonatal blood pressure or myocardial thickness: A randomised controlled trial. Pediatrics 123: e646-652, 2009.

Jaquiery AL, Oliver MH, Rumball CWH, Bloomfield FH, Harding JE. Undernutrition before mating impairs the development of insulin resistance during pregnancy. Obstetrics and Gynecology 114: 869-76, 2009.

Eremia SC, De Boo HA, Bloomfield, FB, Oliver MH, Harding JE. Fetal and amniotic insulin-like growth factor-I supplements improve growth in intrauterine growth restriction fetal sheep. Endocrinology 148: 2963-2972, 2007.

Crowther CA, Doyle LW, Haslam RR, Hiller JE, Harding JE, Robinson JS, for the ACTORDS Study Group. Outcomes at 2 years of age after repeat doses of antenatal corticosteroids. New England Journal of Medicine 357: 1179-89, 2007.
 

Principal Investigator, NIH Award “Children with Hypoglycemia and their Later Development” (the CHYLD Study).

Principal Investigator, HRC Project Grant "Neonatal hypoglycaemia: How do we know how low is too low?"

Co-Investigator, HRC Programme Grant “Perinatal care and its long-term consequences”.