Bereket Duko, PhD

Senior Research Fellow at Torrens University Australia

[HDA - Healthy Development Adelaide @HDA_SA]

🎊Congratulations to our HDA Travel Grant recipients $1,500 towards their conference travel and development 2026 round 1 ✈️
Lisa Callahan, Christopher Slee @PipGranfield @GeorgiaMids @Flinders
@BereketDuko @TorrensUni
Celine Northcott @sahmriAU
Kieran Sparkes @UniofAdelaide

[Public Health, Equity & Human Flourishing @PHEHF_TUA]

Cancer Burden Attributable to Potentially Modifiable Risk Factors in Australia https://t.co/O4ky13EpA8 #mdpicancers via @Cancers_MDPI @TorrensUni @BereketDuko

[Public Health, Equity & Human Flourishing @PHEHF_TUA]

Perinatal and Childhood Risk Factors of Adverse Early Childhood Developmental Outcomes: A Systematic Review Using a Socioecological Model https://t.co/q8N644QdyA #mdpichildren via @MDPIOpenAccess @TorrensUni @BereketDuko

[Public Health, Equity & Human Flourishing @PHEHF_TUA]

Cardiometabolic Outcomes Among Adults With Abdominal Obesity and Normal BMI https://t.co/ONa2vha50C @TorrensUni @BereketDuko

[Public Health, Equity & Human Flourishing @PHEHF_TUA]

Developmental vulnerability in children from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds in Western Australia: a population-based study https://t.co/f3R85mNzJ4 @TorrensUni @BereketDuko

[Public Health, Equity & Human Flourishing @PHEHF_TUA]

Prenatal and early childhood exposure to biothermal stress and developmental vulnerability at school entry in Western Australia: a population-based cohort study https://t.co/EbvExhJlEb @TorrensUni @BereketDuko

[HDA - Healthy Development Adelaide @HDA_SA]

Congratulations to our HDA Travel Grant Recipients, rd 2, 2025! @GeorgiaGosse @AliRoennfeldt Melanie Bertossa @BereketDuko @bennett_milly Minnu Jayapal @AFragkoudi @reza_amanollahi Evangeline Lovell @UniversitySA @RobsInstitute @UniofAdelaide @TorrensUni 👉https://t.co/Yo2WiBVFS2

[UniSA (this account is no longer active) @UniversitySA]

#Obesity in mothers doubles the risk of #autism in babies and increases the risk of #ADHD, according to new #research from the @UniversitySA. https://t.co/IIggKbaYCE

[UniSA (this account is no longer active) @UniversitySA]

#Smoking harms almost every part of your body. But if you smoke when #pregnant, the toxic chemicals in #tobacco will also harm your unborn #baby, as new @UniversitySA #research shows that it could lead to reduced academic outcomes at #school. https://t.co/3lPfuNWiju

[UniSA (this account is no longer active) @UniversitySA]

Children face a 42% higher risk of mental illness if their father suffered #depression, according to a global review led by @CurtinUni and #UniSA researcher @BereketDuko. The study, in @JAMANetworkOpen, calls for a family-focused approach to mental health. https://t.co/FzoqTCmQe7

[World Journal of Pediatrics @World_J_Pediatr]

Original Article: Influence of preterm birth on the association between gestational diabetes mellitus and childhood developmental vulnerability: a causal mediation analysis. See: https://t.co/46QcIZIBlw #Pediatrics @BereketDuko

[Bereket Duko, PhD @BereketDuko]

@HDA_SA @OliviaOctoman @asmeakin @Smbyrne80 @SoniaNath9 @MouminNajma @maky_go @Dexter_HY_Chan @kariisssaaa @cc_gupta @UniversitySA @Flinders @UniofAdelaide @sahmriAU @RobsInstitute @CQUni_Appleton Honoured to be a receipent of the HDA travel grant.

[Bereket Duko, PhD @BereketDuko]

I am pleased to share that I have been awarded an #IBROTravelGrant to attend #IBRO2023 in Granada, Spain, from 9-13 September! #grant #award #World #Congress #IBRO

[Bereket Duko, PhD @BereketDuko]

Our recent cumulative meta-analysis found that offspring exposed to maternal prenatal cannabis use are associated with higher risk of preterm birth!
https://t.co/cq9z0OsoYs

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

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[Bereket Duko, PhD @BereketDuko]

@BedasoAsres @CurtinUni @M_RSection @asylumseekers @InternallyD Congratulations!! That is huge achievement!!

[Bereket Duko, PhD @BereketDuko]

Our recent cohort study found that the risk of cannabis use during late adolescence was 38% and 42% higher for offspring exposed to prenatal alcohol and tobacco use, respectively after adjusting for a wide range of potential confounders.
@RaineStudy
https://t.co/NmHAwPOoSa

[Mark McGowan @MarkMcGowanMP]

This is our WA COVID-19 update for Friday 21 May 2021.

For official information on COVID-19 in Western Australia, visit https://t.co/qA5jY6mVkv

https://t.co/vPQunrGROq

[Mark McGowan @MarkMcGowanMP]

The case of the hotel quarantine cleaner in Brisbane is extremely concerning.

Following contact with his Queensland counterpart, our CHO provided new, updated health advice this morning.

As a result, WA will re-implement hard border restrictions with QLD at midnight tonight.