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Moort dandjoo kaadadjiny: Growing up aboriginal kids strong in their culture and identity

Community Elders in Boorloo (Perth) identified early childhood education (ECE) as a priority area for Aboriginal children’s research. This is due to a lower number of Aboriginal children attending ECE programs compared to non-Aboriginal children. Attending ECE programs sets children up for school success and is an indicator for positive life outcomes in later life. Therefore, we sought to co-design and implement a program that encourages Aboriginal children and families to attend ECE programs, known as Moort Dandjoo Kaadadjiny.

Community Conversation- Infectious Diseases in Children

Consumers and community members are invited to join us to provide input into our childhood infectious diseases research.

A variant at 9p21.3 functionally implicates CDKN2B in paediatric B-cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukaemia aetiology

Discover and replicate a locus indexed by rs77728904 at 9p21.3 associated with BCP-ALL susceptibility

Sex dimorphism in the relation between early adiposity and cardiometabolic risk in adolescents

Birth weight and childhood adiposity are associated with subsequent cardiovascular risk. We investigated the associations between metabolic clusters in young...

Latent profiles of early developmental vulnerabilities in a New South Wales child population at age 5 years

Patterns of early childhood developmental vulnerabilities may provide useful indicators for particular mental disorder outcomes in later life

Kids in Communities Study (KiCS) study protocol: A cross-sectional mixed-methods approach to measuring community-level factors influencing early child development in Australia

The Kids in Communities Study will test and investigate community-level influences on child development across Australia

Serena Louie

Research Assistant

ORIGINS Vision Study

This study is aiming to investigate how sun exposure and time outside impacts the health of your child’s eye and eye growth, over a period of rapid growth in their lives.

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Gender differences in time allocation contribute to differences in developmental outcomes in children and adolescents

Using over 50 thousand time-use diaries from two cohorts of children, we document significant gender differences in time allocation in the first 16 years in life. Relative to males, females spend more time on personal care, chores and educational activities and less time on physical and media related activities. These gender gaps in time allocation appear at very young ages and widen overtime.