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Influence of maternal and infant technology use and other family factors on infant development

Steve Desiree Zubrick Silva FASSA, FAAMHS, MSc AM PhD MBBS, FRACP, MPH, PhD Honorary Emeritus Research Fellow Co-Director, ORIGINS 08 6319 1409

Funding boost for ORIGINS child and family health research

ORIGINS is celebrating a substantial funding increase for its world-class research into child and family health and wellbeing.

ORIGINS sub-project awarded substantial Channel 7 Telethon Trust grant to support disadvantaged children

STARS for Kids, a sub-project of ORIGINS, received a three-year grant to advance the development of a scalable, online, tiered model of care to better support disadvantaged communities, where 20-25 per cent of children are entering school developmentally vulnerable.

For volunteers

ORIGINS is fortunate to have a small passionate and dedicated group of longstanding volunteers.

Mums Minds Matter

Pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood can involve many new challenges.

Timeout for Wellbeing

An experimental study linked to the Mums Minds Matter project, which aims to determine if pregnant women's willingness to engage in online wellbeing programs varies across types.

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE)

The ACE sub-project is working to inform universal antenatal screening for maternal adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) by thoroughly examining their impact on the pregnancy and child.

Long COVID

This sub-project aims to understand why some people develop long-term health problems after COVID-19 and to identify biological markers that can help doctors predict who is most at risk and how to treat them.

ORIGINS Childhood Obesity

This sub-project will be using ORIGINS data to explore the risk and protective factors of obesity from birth to early childhood.

STARS for Kids

Strengths-based, tiered, accessible, resources and supports (STARS) for Kids for parent, carers and their children.