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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 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.

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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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The Power of Longitudinal Cohorts – The 2024 ORIGINS ShowcaseYesterday, we were delighted to host close to 200 people at The ORIGINS 2024 Showcase, which explored the power of longitudinal cohorts, now and in

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Child has COVID? A reminder to think ORIGINS!ORIGINS is on the lookout for our Long COVID Study. As we enter a new wave of COVID in the community, we would like to remind participants to 'think

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Changing advice for parents on food allergiesDr Debbie Palmer spoke to Ch7 Sunrise about the changing advice for parents about the development of food allergies in kids.

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HBF and ORIGINS Helping Fathers to FlourishA new partnership with HBF will help fathers in their transition to parenthood

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Sharing the ORIGINS story on ABC DriveORIGINS chats to Geoff Hutchison about the impact of the study