Dist Prof Jane Elizabeth Harding

BSc, MBChB, FRACP, DPhil

Professor

In: Liggins Institute

Biography

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 was Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) for The University of Auckland from 2008-2015, and is a member of the LiFePATH 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, perinatal glucose regulation and the long-term consequences of treatments given around the time of birth.

Research | Current

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

Major grant funding:

Principal Investigator, HRC Programme Grant "Assessing the impact of maternal and perinatal interventions on life-long health"
Principal Investigator, NIH Award “Children with Hypoglycemia and their Later Development” (the CHYLD Study)
Principal Investigator, HRC Project Grant "Preventing neonatal hypoglycaemia with oral dextrose gel"
Principal Investigator, HRC Project Grant "Does preventing neonatal hypoglycaemia improve outcome at two years of age?"
Principal Investigator, HRC Project Grant "Mid-Childhood outcomes of children born at risk of neonatal hypoglycaemia"
Co-Investigator, HRC Programme Grant “Feeding preterm babies for life-long health”

Distinctions/Honours

ONZM
FRSNZ

Selected publications and creative works (Research Outputs)

Cormack, B. E., Jiang, Y., Harding, J. E., Bloomfield, F. H., & Crowther, C. A. (2020). Relationships between neonatal nutrition and growth to 36 weeks’ corrected age in ELBW babies–secondary cohort analysis from the provide trial. Nutrients, 12 (3).10.3390/nu12030760
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Yannan Jiang, Barbara Cormack, Frank Bloomfield, Caroline Crowther
Manerkar, K., Harding, J., Conlon, C., & McKinlay, C. (2020). Maternal gestational diabetes and infant feeding, nutrition and growth: a systematic review and meta-analysis. The British journal of nutrition, 1-15. 10.1017/s0007114520000264
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Chris McKinlay
Cormack, B. E., Jiang, Y., Harding, J. E., Crowther, C. A., Lynn, A., Nair, A., ... Webster, D. (2020). Plasma ammonia concentrations in extremely low birthweight infants in the first week after birth: secondary analysis from the ProVIDe randomized clinical trial. Pediatric research10.1038/s41390-019-0730-z
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Yannan Jiang, Barbara Cormack, Frank Bloomfield, Caroline Crowther
Cumberpatch, A. R., Weston, P. J., Harding, J. E., & Harris, D. L. (2020). Parents of babies who participated in an invasive clinical study report a positive experience: the Glucose in Well Babies (GLOW) study. ARCHIVES OF DISEASE IN CHILDHOOD-FETAL AND NEONATAL EDITION, 105 (1), F4-F7. 10.1136/fetalneonatal-2019-317417
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Deborah Harris
Cumberpatch, A. R., Weston, P. J., Harding, J. E., & Harris, D. L. (2020). Parents of babies who participated in an invasive clinical study report a positive experience: the Glucose in Well Babies (GLOW) study. Archives of disease in childhood. Fetal and neonatal edition, 105 (1), 4-7. 10.1136/archdischild-2019-317417
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/49608
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Deborah Harris
Tottman, A. C., Alsweiler, J. M., Bloomfield, F. H., Gamble, G. D., Jiang, Y., Leung, M., ... Harding, J. E. (2020). Relationships Between Early Neonatal Nutrition and Neurodevelopment at School Age in Children Born Very Preterm. Journal of pediatric gastroenterology and nutrition, 70 (1), 72-78. 10.1097/mpg.0000000000002471
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/49645
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Anna Tottman, Jane Alsweiler, Frank Bloomfield, Benjamin Thompson, Yannan Jiang, Greg Gamble, Trecia Wouldes, Myra Leung
Crowther, C. A., Ashwood, P., Andersen, C. C., Middleton, P. F., Tran, T., Doyle, L. W., ... ASTEROID Study Group (2019). Maternal intramuscular dexamethasone versus betamethasone before preterm birth (ASTEROID): a multicentre, double-blind, randomised controlled trial. The Lancet. Child & adolescent health, 3 (11), 769-780. 10.1016/s2352-4642(19)30292-5
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/48983
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Caroline Crowther, Katie Groom, Jane Alsweiler
Asadi, S., Bloomfield, F. H., & Harding, J. E. (2019). Nutrition in late preterm infants. Seminars in perinatology, 43 (7)10.1053/j.semperi.2019.06.008
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/47919
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Frank Bloomfield