In Australia, there is little empirical research of the racial identity of Indigenous children and youth as the majority of the current literature focuses on... ...

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• 2015
• January 2015

Human genetic research promises to deliver a range of health benefits to the population. Here we consider how the different levels of Indigenous research... ...

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• 2012
• December 2012

Aleksandra Filipovska AF BSc PhD Louis Landau Chair in Child Health Research; NHMRC Leadership Fellow; Deputy Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for Synthetic Biology; Adjunct Research Professor, Monash University Louis Landau Chair in Child Health ...

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Yasmin Lizzie Harman-Smith Button YHS LB BA, BHlthSc(Hons), PhD BPsych (Hons) Head, Early Years Systems Evidence; Head, Tenders Support Unit Research Assistant 08 6375 9747 Yasmin.harman-smith@telethonkids.org.au elizabeth.button@ ...

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Bacterial and fungal microbiotas are increasingly recognized as important in health and disease starting early in life. However, microbiota composition has not yet been investigated in most rural, low-resource settings, and in such settings, bacterial and fungal microbiotas have not been compared. ...

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• 2021
• July 2021

The unprecedented global rise in mental anguish is closely linked with the erosion of our social fabric, economic and political systems, and to our natural environments. We are facing multiple new large-scale threats to health, safety, and security, with a growing lack of trust in others and in authorities. ...

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• 2022
• August 2022

Previous research has highlighted children's frequent exposure to advertisements of unhealthy food and beverages on television. However, the food industry is increasingly utilising non-broadcast channels such as outdoor advertising (eg billboards, bus shelters, shop fronts) for product marketing. ...

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• 2022
• July 2022

Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) in infants younger than 1 year of age is an aggressive, high-risk subtype of childhood ALL. Infant ALL with KMT2A-r is characteristically poorly responsive to chemotherapy and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. New strategies, such as molecularly targeted therapies and immunotherapies, are in development and show promise in preclinical models and early phase studies. ...

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• 2022
• January 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has overwhelmed health systems in both developed and developing nations alike. Africa has one of the weakest health systems globally, but there is limited evidence on how the region is prepared for, impacted by and responded to the pandemic. ...

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• 2021
• December 2021

Interventions to address alcohol use during pregnancy need to target underlying determinants of the behaviour. Using the theory of planned behaviour as a theoretical framework, the aim of this study was to identify behavioural, normative and control beliefs regarding alcohol use during pregnancy among a sample of women. ...

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• 2021
• October 2021

Across 6 years of school, multiple risk-exposed children lagged behind low risk-exposed children in the order of years of lost gains in reading achievement ...

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• 2019
• May 2019

Australia is the only developed country to consistently undertake a developmental census of its children nationwide. The repeated collection of the Australian Early Development Census (AEDC) has provided an unprecedented opportunity to examine the prevalence of developmental vulnerability across Australia's states and territories, the socio-economic distribution of developmental vulnerability across jurisdictions, and how these distributions might have changed over time. ...

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• 2020
• November 2020