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New website provides tools and resources for parents of gender diverse children and young peopleTransforming Families is providing evidence-based resources to help support the mental wellbeing of young people questioning their gender identity, or who identify as trans or gender diverse.
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Australia’s first Indigenous scientist appointed to CSIRO boardThe Kids Research Institute Australia and Australian National University Professor of Indigenous Genomics, Professor Alex Brown, has become the first Indigenous member of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Board.
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The Kids researchers selected for prestigious leadership programTwo incredible team leaders from The Kids Research Institute Australia will join a cohort of 25 women working in STEM across Australia, to take part in the 2023 WILD program.
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Leading disease modeller appointed inaugural Fiona Stanley Chair of Child Health ResearchThe Kids Research Institute Australia and The University of Western Australia are proud to announce the appointment of the inaugural Fiona Stanley Chair of Child Health Research, Professor Melissa Penny.
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Award for Sun Safe app developed with teensThe Kids Research Institute Australia researchers who worked with young people to develop an app designed to help teenagers stay safe in the sun have been named joint winners of a new award for ‘Best Practice in Children’s Consultation’.
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Prestigious fellowship for pioneering researcherAleksandra Filipovska has been elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences.
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Mental health researcher recognised in prestigious publication awardDr Nicole Hill and a team of co-researchers from Orygen have received the 2021 Medical Journal of Australia (MJA) award for Excellence in Medical Research.
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RSV responsible for one out of every 50 childhood deaths worldwideThe urgency for a world-first respiratory syncytial virus vaccine is at an all-time high.
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Sophisticated new modelling suggests keeping mask mandate could prevent 147,000 COVID-19 casesWA’s current Omicron COVID-19 outbreak could jump by 147,000 cases if mask mandates are abandoned before the Easter long weekend, according to sophisticated new modelling.
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Call for national newborn screening for little-known CMV virusWestern Australian researchers advocate for a national newborn screening program for congenital CMV to prevent hearing loss and related disabilities in infants.