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Researchers from The Kids Research Institute Australia have contributed to a landmark study revealing climate change will have a detrimental impact on one of the greatest threats to the health of children in the Global south – diarrhoea.
The Kids Research Institute Australia has been awarded a prestigious National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) tender to lead the national review of the revised Draft Statement on Consumer and Community Involvement in Health and Medical Research.
The health of the world’s 1.96 billion adolescents is at a critical tipping point.
Dr Kefyalew Alene, who heads the Geospatial and Tuberculosis team at The Kids and is a senior research fellow within the Curtin School of Population Health, has used cutting edge technology to transform the way TB transmission is predicted, understood and managed globally.
A project that will investigate the role of Australian fathers in their children’s wellbeing and another which aims to help parents grapple with the digital world and its role in teens’ mental health have received significant funding from the Australian Research Council.
A complex five-year experiment which cracked the code of a genetic mystery has paved the way for faster and more accurate diagnoses of the most rare and unknown diseases affecting children.
Five researchers from The Kids Research Institute Australia will share in almost $3 million in grants to continue groundbreaking research to tackle childhood cancer, asthma prevention, lung disease and chronic ear infections.
Trailblazing Aboriginal doctor and health researcher Professor Alex Brown has been made a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE) in recognition of his leadership in ensuring Indigenous peoples are at the forefront of genomics efforts nationally and internationally.
There are conflicting suggestions concerning the developmental trend of trust beliefs during middle childhood. Across three studies, the current research developed a brief measure of child general trust beliefs, as well as child measures of trust in peers and online, and examined age-related differences in these beliefs.
Globally, Indigenous peoples have incurred significant harm due to colonisation of their lands. Dispossession of culture, language, family and land, and the historical, systematic removal of children in Australia (the ‘Stolen Generation’), has resulted in evident ongoing negative outcomes in the contemporary lives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.