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Emerging evidence indicates that the built environment influences early child development. Access to, and the quality of, built environment features vary with the socioeconomic status (SES) of neighbourhoods. It has not yet been established whether the association between built environment features and early child development varies by neighbourhood SES.

Josephine is a Senior Research Fellow within the Global Disease Modelling team, specializing in quantitative and qualitative evidence generation using epidemiological, statistical, and mathematical modelling methods.

Children's physical activity and screen time behaviours impact their physical health and well-being. In Australia, less than half of children meet daily physical activity recommendations and only one-third meet daily screen time recommendations.

Doctors and other health professionals who care for pregnant women are being encouraged to talk openly to women about the dangers of alcohol in pregnancy.

Rubini joined the Malaria Atlas Project, as part of the Geospatial Health and Development team as Research Assistant in May 2024.

Both the Nature play and fundamental movement skills professional development programs were effective in improving educators’ self-efficacy to engage children

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Mechanisms-including aerobiological and epigenetic-that might help explain some of the noted positive health outcomes

Adaptations for scale-up are ubiquitous but are rarely described in detail. Adaptations may be a key reason for the "scale-up penalty" which is when there is a reduction in intervention effect size following scale-up. The Play Active intervention consists of a physical activity policy for early childhood education and care (ECEC) services, with accompanying implementation support strategies.

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