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Maternal and family factors and child eating pathology: Risk and protective relationshipsThis study aimed to identify maternal and family factors that may predict increases or decreases in child eating disorder symptoms over time, accounting for...

ORIGINS is the largest study of its kind in Australia, following 10,000 children, from their time in the womb, over a decade to improve child and adult health.

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ORIGINS Project shines light on Early Childhood DevelopmentA collaboration between The Kids Research Institute Australia and Joondalup Health Campus is poised to be a game-changer for early childhood development.

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ORIGINS celebrates significant funding from the Stan Perron Charitable Foundation in 2025A substantial funding boost from the Stan Perron Charitable Foundation will help to further extend one of Australia’s biggest longitudinal child health research studies centred around families from the Joondalup and Wanneroo communities.

Determining the associations of sun exposure in early life on the development of non-communicable diseases.

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Multimillion-dollar ORIGINS Project recruits 1000th family for global health studyProfessor Desiree Silva with the 1000th family - Jess, Michael and Eli The multimillion-dollar ORIGINS Project, an extensive community-based

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Child health and obesity the focus of international built environment studyResearch 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.

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Recruitment of active participants comes to an end for ORIGINSORIGINS has officially reached the study's five-year goal of recruiting 4,000 active participants to the project and has closed recruitment of new families into the active cohort.

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Q&A with Dr Michael MosleyDr Michael Mosley recently visited The Kids Research Institute Australia to talk about DOHaD and the importance of good gut health.