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New era for child health research with The Kids Research Institute Australia and Curtin partnership signed

The Kids Research Institute Australia and Curtin University will work together as part of a new agreement focused on enhancing children’s health and medical research in WA.

$1.2million in funding secured for two innovative projects

The Kids researchers are collaborating on two major projects that today received $1.2million in funding from MTPConnect.

The Kids welcomes State Government commitment to research

The Kids Research Institute Australia, has welcomed the State Government's budget commitment to innovation and medical research.

Grant to expand innovative consumer involvement program

A $3.2 million grant from Lotterywest will allow the highly successful Consumer Involvement Program to be expanded to 18 other WA organisations.

Free nutrition & lifestyle program for new mums

The Kids Research Institute Australia researchers are offering a free nutrition and lifestyle program for plus sized mums and their babies who live in the Joondalup area.

New research partnership to ensure no child gets left behind

Researchers will track the progress of 12,000 children from birth to age five to identify what services are valuable to families to support the health and wellb

The Kids researchers awarded Raine Medical Research Foundation funding

Congratulations to three The Kids Research Institute Australia researchers, who have been awarded funding from the Raine Medical Research Foundation.

New blueprint for child health research

Delivering tangible and measurable improvements to the health and wellbeing of children is at the centre of a bold new blueprint for child health research in WA

Longitudinal surveillance of group A streptococcal pharyngitis and impetigo in remote Western Australian school children informs acute rheumatic fever prevention

The prevalence of impetigo and pharyngitis - which are both superficial group A streptococcus (GAS) infections that precede acute rheumatic fever - is poorly defined. Guidelines recommend the early diagnosis of both infections to prevent ARF; however, screening to enable the concurrent detection of these infections in high-risk populations has rarely been performed. 

Value profile for Malaria vaccines and monoclonal antibodies1

Malaria remains a leading cause of morbidity and mortality and is responsible for over 0.5 million annual deaths globally. During the first two decades of this century, scale-up of a range of tools was associated with significant reductions in malaria mortality in the primary risk group, young African children.