Skip to content
The Kids Research Institute Australia logo
Donate

Discover . Prevent . Cure .

Search

Brain & Behaviour

Brain and behaviour research encompasses a child's learning, development and mental health - and the impact and development of conditions like cerebral palsy, autism and intellectual disability.

News & Events

Virtually More Convenient

ORIGINS is now offering telehealth appointments for the paediatric assessment at the one- and three-year timepoints

News & Events

New research to tackle rising food allergies in kids

new research at The Kids Research Institute Australia will look at the diets of mums to see if regularly eating more eggs or peanuts during pregnancy and while breastfeeding

The SYMBA Study

SYMBA is promoting gut health (symbiosis) with prebiotic fibre taken during pregnancy for prevention of allergic disease.

News & Events

ORIGINS Co-Director nominated in the 2024 Western Australian of the Year Awards

ORIGINS Co-Director nominated in the 2024 Western Australian of the Year Awards

Tate is in good hands at CliniKids

Discover how this family is benefitting from CliniKids' evidence-based therapies.

Program Manager: ORIGINS

The Program Manager will supervise the activity of the management staff and the ORIGINS Working Group

Research

Nature Connection: Providing a Pathway from Personal to Planetary Health

The vast and growing challenges for human health and all life on Earth require urgent and deep structural changes to the way in which we live. Broken relationships with nature are at the core of both the modern health crisis and the erosion of planetary health. A declining connection to nature has been implicated in the exploitative attitudes that underpin the degradation of both physical and social environments and almost all aspects of personal physical, mental, and spiritual health.

News & Events

Child health a focus in national research grants

The Kids Research Institute Australia researchers have been awarded more than $8 million in prestigious project grants from the NHMRC.

News & Events

Understanding allergies

Researchers around the world, including at The Kids Research Institute Australia, are playing catch up as they try to understand what is causing the big increase in allergies