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For Volunteers

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

For Participants

Information for the 10,000 families participating in ORIGINS. Recruitment has now closed.

The ORIGINS App

Helping ORIGINS families to stay on track in their ORIGINS journey

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE)

The ACE sub-project is investigating the impact of positive and negative maternal childhood experiences on pregnancy outcomes, and the health and wellbeing of children, with the aim to improve clinician screening and support available to families.

Nature Play & Grow

Helping families to unlock the mental and physical health benefits of connecting with nature and community through outdoor play - easily, and locally.

Celebrating our final births

ORIGINS has welcomed its very last baby into the cohort

Dental screening app shown to have potential to help remote families

ORIGINS' Dental Screening project has completed its feasibility study, showing that the tested smartphone app, enabling remote screening of children's teeth by dental professionals, has the potential to help remote families access dental care, among other benefits.

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.

The CUB Study

Communicating with and Understanding your Baby

Child health and obesity the focus of international built environment study

Research data from more than one million Australian and Welsh children will be examined to help better understand how the built environment affects child health and obesity, as part of an international research project to be co-led by The Kids Research Institute Australia.