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Life imitates art in a new project that seeks to entrench cultural safety for young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people into WA’s mental health system.

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Listed are The Kids Research Institute Australia research teams involved in our Early Life & Life-Course Health Program. This program sits under the Early Environment research theme.

The ORIGINS Project is a decade-long longitudinal study of more than 18,000 individuals including mothers, partners and children, as part of a collaboration between The Kids Research Institute Australia and Joondalup Health Campus.

For thousands of children around Australia with intellectual and other disabilities, the process of eating can be traumatic, posing challenges that veer from uncomfortable to life threatening.

A Kimberley study seeking to better understand Strep A in remote settings is helping to guide new approaches to prevent acute rheumatic fever (ARF) – an auto-immune response that typically begins with a sore throat and causes high fever, tiredness and swollen joints.

Australian children diagnosed with a brain tumour now have a better chance of accessing the best treatment for their disease thanks to a trans-Tasman collaboration spearheaded by The Kids Research Institute Australia cancer researcher Professor Nick Gottardo.

Researchers from The Kids Research Institute Australia who are working to better understand the serious threat climate change poses to children’s health have led a study revealing the dramatically heightened risk of preterm births as the world gets hotter.

In a world where TikTok dances and Minecraft adventures take centre stage, kids are spending more time online than ever before.

The Walkern Katatdjin (Rainbow Knowledge) project has produced a suite of resources to help services become more inclusive.

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