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Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull last night pledged at Telethon to fund a landmark $26 million health study that will follow the early lives of 10,000 WA children.

Celebrating 50 years of collaboration between Telethon and ORIGINS.

Cara and Peter signed up to The ORIGINS Project in 2017 when Cara was only six months pregnant with their first child, Oscar.

The Federal Government has joined with the Paul Ramsay Foundation to fund the project, with each pledging $13 million over 10 years.

Leading paediatrician and Co-Director of ORIGINS Professor Desiree Silva says key developmental milestones like smiling are being delayed because parents are spending too much time on devices.

The Joondalup Health Campus and The Kids are investigating how childhood and adult-onset diseases can be prevented during foetal development and in the early years of life.

The link between increasing anxiety among young children and too much screen time at the expense of “nature time” will be the focus of a new Perth study.

New dads can feel undervalued and face significant health and mental health risks following the birth of a child, according to new research that has prompted a rethink about how to address the often-unmet needs of fathers.

The ORIGINS Project is a decade-long longitudinal study of more than 18,000 individuals including mothers, partners and children, as part of a collaboration between The Kids Research Institute Australia and Joondalup Health Campus.

The current narrative surrounding children’s health and wellbeing often focuses on adversity and dysregulation with a lack of positive messaging. However, promoting protective and buffering factors may be as important as reducing adverse exposures. While the concept of flourishing is commonly applied in the context of adults, defining what flourishing means for children in current academic literature remains unclear.