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Listed are all The Kids Research Institute Australia research teams involved in our Population Health Program. This program sits under the Brain and Behaviour research theme.

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o help raise the profile of student wellbeing in the education system in Australia, The Kids Research Institute Australia and SA Department for Education through the Fraser Mustard Centre, set out to adapt and trial a population-level student wellbeing measure that could be used across the entire public and p

A quality of life tool developed by disability researcher Jenny Downs is helping to reveal the difference specific interventions can make to the lives of children and families living with disability.

The Kids researchers are working with Perth Children’s Hospital and other experts across the country to get ahead of a sneaky virus few mums or even health professionals have heard of.

A song written by kids in Barunga as part of the END RHD Communities Project is helping prevent the spread of infections that cause rheumatic heart disease in remote Aboriginal Communities.

The FASD Research Australia Centre of Research Excellence (CRE) has substantially built the evidence base around FASD and had a significant impact on advocacy, policy and practice.

Childcare centres have flocked to take up a new evidence-based policy to help ensure young children get more of the physical activity they need to be healthy and developmentally on track.

Klair Bayley knew her son Logan would eventually need a wheelchair.

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In South Australian schools, students in Grade 4 to 12 are invited to participate in an annual survey about their wellbeing and engagement in school, referred to as the Wellbeing and Engagement Collection.

The aim of the Computational Biology team is to understand how individual bases in our genome predispose, alter and interact in normal and disease contexts.