To assess potential benefits and direct healthcare cost savings with expansion of an existing childhood influenza immunisation program, we developed a dynamic transmission model for the state of Western Australia, evaluating increasing coverage in children < 5 years and routinely immunising school-aged children. ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• Reports and Findings
• 2023
• December 2023

The Food and Nutrition Research Team conducts innovative and multidisciplinary research to better understand how the environments within which children live, play and go to school influence the types of foods they eat and their risk of overweight and obesity. ...

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• Brain and Behaviour
• Healthy Behaviours and Environments Program

Marked increases in maternal age and primiparous births were observed. A four-fold increase in the rates of pre-existing medical complications over time... ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• Reports and Findings
• 2013
• August 2013

Nasopharyngeal colonisation with nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHi) is associated with development of infections including pneumonia and otitis media. The 10-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV10) uses NTHi Protein D (PD) as a carrier. Papua New Guinean children have exceptionally early and dense NTHi carriage, and high rates of NTHi-associated disease. ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• Reports and Findings
• 2021
• June 2021

This data set provides a useful reference point for genomic studies on Aboriginal Australians ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• Reports and Findings
• 2016
• April 2016

Christopher Deborah Hannah Lea-Ann Peter Blyth Lehmann Moore Kirkham Richmond CC D HC LK PC MBBS (Hons) DCH FRACP FRCPA PhD AO, MBBS, MSc OAM BSc ( ...

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Jenefer Timo Sarra Blackwell Lassmann Jamieson JM T SE BSc with First Class Honours, PhD, DSc, FMedSci, FAA BSc (Hons) MSc PhD BSc (Hons) MSc PhD ...

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• Genetics and Health

The reciprocal relationship between psychiatric and substance use disorders is well-known, yet it remains largely unknown whether mental health morbidity causally leads to addictive behaviours. This paper utilises a fixed effects instrumental variables model, which is identified by time-varying sources of plausibly exogenous variations in mental health, and a nationally representative panel dataset from Australia to present robust evidence on the causal impact of mental distress on cigarette smoking and alcohol drinking behaviours. ...

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

Using over 50 thousand time-use diaries from two cohorts of children, we document significant gender differences in time allocation in the first 16 years in life. Relative to males, females spend more time on personal care, chores and educational activities and less time on physical and media related activities. These gender gaps in time allocation appear at very young ages and widen overtime. ...

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

Traits associated with CVD, CRD and T2D in Aboriginal Australians provide novel insight into function of Arylsulphatase A Pseudodeficiency variants ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• Reports and Findings
• 2018
• July 2018