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Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull last night pledged at Telethon to fund a landmark $26 million health study that will follow the early lives of 10,000 WA children.
Celebrating 50 years of collaboration between Telethon and ORIGINS.
Cara and Peter signed up to The ORIGINS Project in 2017 when Cara was only six months pregnant with their first child, Oscar.
The Federal Government has joined with the Paul Ramsay Foundation to fund the project, with each pledging $13 million over 10 years.
Leading paediatrician and Co-Director of ORIGINS Professor Desiree Silva says key developmental milestones like smiling are being delayed because parents are spending too much time on devices.
The Joondalup Health Campus and The Kids are investigating how childhood and adult-onset diseases can be prevented during foetal development and in the early years of life.
The link between increasing anxiety among young children and too much screen time at the expense of “nature time” will be the focus of a new Perth study.
ORIGINS provides a cost-effective research enabling platform for those looking to conduct research in child and family health.
View the ORIGINS Databank hosted by Power BI
The ORIGINS Biobank is collecting biological samples from participant families at 10 timepoints between the time of pregnancy and the child turning five years of age.