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Food and nutrition in pregnancy

A healthy and balanced diet is important if you’re pregnant or planning a pregnancy.

Australian researchers join international project to curb unhealthy lifetime trajectories

Australian researchers join global effort to better understand how events during pregnancy and childhood influence the development of disease later in life.

Mums-to-be urged to stress less

Mums-to-be shouldn't worry unnecessarily about potential risks during their pregnancy

Powerful Nunga mums, strong healthy Bibi and families: improving care, coordination, support and knowledge of women who experience cardiometabolic complications in pregnancy

The Model of Care supports the health of women and their babies with cardiometabolic complications of pregnancy and aids in the prevention and management of cardiometabolic disease in the short and long-term. It was co-designed by Aboriginal women with lived experiences of cardiometabolic complications in pregnancy.

The pathogen specific burden of hospitalisation for enteric and blood stream infection in children and young people in Western Australia

Hannah Tom Moore Snelling OAM BSc (Hons) GradDipClinEpi PhD BMBS DTMH GDipClinEpid PhD FRACP Head, Infectious Diseases Research Head, Infectious

Physical Development

This research domain focuses on understanding how early biological and physical factors shape infant growth, body composition, and neurodevelopment from the earliest stages of life.

Language Development

Language is one of the most remarkable developmental accomplishments of early childhood. Language connects us with others and is an essential tool for literacy, education, employment and lifelong learning.

Atypical Presentations

We investigated the factors that may affect the age at diagnosis for girls and woman with Rett syndrome.

Predictors of seizure onset in Rett syndrome

Many girls and women with Rett syndrome experience seizures. We wanted to know if there were any factors that influenced the age when seizures first developed.

Psychosocial Interventions and Support Groups for Siblings of Individuals with Neurodevelopmental Conditions: A Mixed Methods Systematic Review of Sibling Self-reported Mental Health and Wellbeing Outcomes

Siblings of persons with neurodevelopmental conditions (NDCs) have increased risk of poorer psychosocial functioning. This systematic review evaluated quantitative and qualitative evidence on sibling mental health and wellbeing outcomes following psychosocial interventions and the risk and protective factors associated with post-intervention outcomes.