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With rising levels of physical and mental health issues, ensuring children establish good physical activity behaviours early in life is more important than ever.

A public health campaign to raise awareness about the dangers of chronic wet cough in Aboriginal children is helping to improve detection, diagnosis and management of the condition.

Shanara Quartermaine has just received 2022Supporting Training of Aboriginal Researchers & Staff (STARS) Capacity Building Funding Award.

With backgrounds spanning the globe, members of our team have come together to support the vital work of The Kids Research Institute Australia, to ensure we impact kids everywhere.

Megan is a training specialist on the Healing Kids, Healing Families Team.

The Early Neurodevelopment and Mental Health team is focused on preventing childhood mental illness and optimising children’s development and wellbeing in the first years of their life. We are interested in understanding and identifying the factors that contribute to difficulties in mental health and development, as well as developing cost-effective prevention and early intervention approaches for addressing developmental needs and promoting resilience.

A severe neurodevelopmental disorder mostly affecting girls.

Two The Kids Research Institute Australia researchers recognised for their role in building a global database for CDKL5 deficiency disorder are now helping to set the scene for clinical trials of much-needed potential treatments.

In 2020, we celebrated our 30th birthday with those who matter most — the kids whose lives we’ve changed through the research we do.

While individual diseases are rare, as a group, rare diseases are common. Recent estimates suggest that between 3% and 6% of the world’s population are affected by rare disease.