Sébastien Malinge SM PhD Laboratory Head, Translational Genomics in Leukaemia, Ursula Kees Fellow (CCRF), Cancer Council WA Fellow (CCWA), Senior ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
• Projects

We developed the iOS smartphone app Sun Safe to support healthy sun practices in young teenagers (aged 12-13 years). The production involved co-design with young co-researchers (ie, aged 12-13 years) with a health message of using sun protection when the UV index is ≥3. Important features include real-time and location-specific weather data on the UV index and gamified educational content. ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
• Our research
• Reports and Findings
• 2022
• August 2022

The prevalence of stillbirth in many high income countries like Australia has remained unchanged for over 30 years. The 2018 Australian government Senate Select Committee on Stillbirth Research and Education highlighted the need for a public health campaign to encourage public conversations and increase awareness. ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
• Our research
• Reports and Findings
• 2022
• July 2022

Disaggregation regression has become an important tool in spatial disease mapping for making fine-scale predictions of disease risk from aggregated response data. ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
• Our research
• Reports and Findings
• 2021
• October 2021

Difference in stillbirth and neonatal death rates in Western Australia (1998-2010) by maternal ethnicity ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
• Our research
• Reports and Findings
• 2016
• October 2016

Studies on health insurance coverage often rely on measures self-reported by respondents, but the accuracy of such measures has not been thoroughly validated. This paper is the first to use linked Australian National Health Survey and administrative population tax data to explore the accuracy of self-reported private health insurance (PHI) coverage in survey data. ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
• Our research
• Reports and Findings
• 2023
• August 2023

SYMBA is promoting gut health (symbiosis) with prebiotic fibre taken during pregnancy for prevention of allergic disease. ...

• The ORIGINS Project
• Sub-projects
• Allergy, Inflammation & Immunity

Communicating with and Understanding your Baby ...

• The ORIGINS Project
• Sub-projects
• Brain & Behaviour

Australia’s biggest study into the causes of type 1 diabetes reached a significant milestone when its last Perth-based participant was born recently. ...

• Rio Tinto Children's Diabetes Centre
• News and events

We report two rare genetic aberrations in a schizophrenia patient that may act together to confer disease susceptibility. ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
• Our research
• Reports and Findings
• 2011
• January 2011