Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), principally ischemic heart disease (IHD) and stroke, are the leading cause of global mortality and a major contributor to disability. This paper reviews the magnitude of total CVD burden, including 13 underlying causes of cardiovascular death and 9 related risk factors, using estimates from the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Study 2019. GBD, an ongoing multinational collaboration to provide comparable and consistent estimates of population health over time, used all available population-level data sources on incidence, prevalence, case fatality, mortality, and health risks to produce estimates for 204 countries and territories from 1990 to 2019. ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
• Our research
• Reports and Findings
• 2020
• December 2020

Prevalence of skin sores and scabies in remote Australian Aboriginal communities remains unacceptably high, with Group A Streptococcus (GAS) the dominant pathogen. We aim to better understand the drivers of GAS transmission using mathematical models. ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
• Our research
• Reports and Findings
• 2018
• May 2018

A risk prediction model allows early identification of children at greatest risk of developing complicated osteomyelitis ...

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

Early life infections drive high antibiotic prescribing rates in remote Aboriginal communities ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
• Our research
• Reports and Findings
• 2019
• April 2019

Asthma exacerbations in children can be divided into IRF7hi versus IRF7lo phenotypes with associated differences in clinical phenotypes ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
• Our research
• Reports and Findings
• 2019
• March 2019

Reliable and detailed data on the prevalence of tuberculosis (TB) with sub-national estimates are scarce in Ethiopia. We address this knowledge gap by spatially predicting the national, sub-national and local prevalence of TB, and identifying drivers of TB prevalence across the country. ...

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

Mental ill-health and substance use bear a substantial burden and harm on young people and often arise from co-occurring and compounding risk factors, such as traumatic stress. Trauma-informed prevention of mental ill-health and substance use demonstrates significant promise in reducing this burden. ...

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

Mesothelioma is characterised by its aggressive invasive behaviour, affecting the surrounding tissues of the pleura or peritoneum. We compared an invasive pleural model with a non-invasive subcutaneous model of mesothelioma and performed transcriptomic analyses on the tumour samples. ...

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

Tess Gregory TG BSc (Hons), PhD (Psychology) Senior Research Fellow +61 8 6375 6113 tess.gregory@telethonkids.org.au Senior Research Fellow Tess is a Senior Research Fellow at the Telethon Kids Institute with a background in Psychology and ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
• Our research
• Brain and Behaviour
• Population Health Program
• Early Years Systems Evidence

To assess the association between in utero exposure to seasonal inactivated influenza vaccine (IIV) and the risk of a diagnosis of a neurodevelopmental disorder in early childhood. ...

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

Childhood brain tumors (CBT) are the leading cause of cancer death in children, yet their causes are largely known. This study investigated the association... ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
• Our research
• Reports and Findings
• 2013
• January 2013

The objective of this study was to examine the factors that impact on breastfeeding duration among Western Australia Aboriginal children. We hypothesised... ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
• Our research
• Reports and Findings
• 2012
• December 2012