Jonathan Glenn Katharine Carapetis AM Pearson Noonan JR G KN AM MBBS FRACP FAFPHM PhD FAHMS BA (Education) PhD Candidate MBBS (Hons) MSc Executive Director; Head, Strep A Translation; Co-Founder of REACH Director of First Nations Strategy and ...

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Felicity Bonnie Ben Austin Furzer Jackson FA BF BJ BScExRehab, MClinExPhys BA/BSc (Hons) PhD BSc (Hons) PhD PhD Candidate Honorary Research Associate Research Theme Head, Brain and Behaviour 0400 198 166 Felicity.Austin@telethonkids.org.au ...

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Hayley Liz Steve Christian Wenden Zubrick HC LW SR BSc (1st Class Hons), PhD W.Aust. BHlthSc MPH FASSA, FAAMHS, MSc AM PhD Program Head, Healthy Behaviours and Environments; National Heart Foundation Future Leader Fellow Research Assistant/Data ...

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Despite education about the risks of excessive sun exposure, teenagers in Australia are sun-seeking, with sunburn common in summer. Conversely, some regular (time-limited) exposure to sunlight (that avoids sunburn) is necessary for vitamin D and healthy bones and other molecules important for immune and metabolic health. New interventions are thus required to better support teenagers to make healthy and balanced decisions about their sun behaviors. ...

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• 2022
• March 2022

Regular physical activity provides children with health and developmental benefits. This study investigated if active play and walking with the family dog was associated with better social-emotional development in young children. ...

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• 2021
• March 2021

At the end of 2019 and into 2020, catastrophic fires in Australia consumed homes, lives, wildlife, and land. Just as the fires subsided, Australia, like the rest of the world, faced another emergency—the COVID-19 pandemic. It is instructive to reflect on lessons from the health disasters of the past year. Following publication of the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change, the Medical Journal of Australia (MJA)–Lancet Australian Countdown was published in December, 2020. This annual report on health and climate change in Australia is in its third year and comprises the efforts of five Australian institutions, in collaboration with University College London, UK, facilitated by a partnership between The Lancet and the MJA. ...

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• 2020
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Results highlight the need for a culturally appropriate information and education of the importance of chronic wet cough in children ...

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• 2019
• July 2019

Fetal androgens influence fetal growth as well as postnatal neurocognitive ability ...

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• 2010
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Elucidating the underlying nature of the disorder(s) is a crucial step towards tailoring intervention to the biological and cognitive makeup of each individual. ...

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• 2013
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The current study sought to increase our understanding of the factors involved in the early vocabulary development of Australian Indigenous children. ...

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• 2014
• April 2014

We wanted to embark on an epidemiological research project that would contribute new knowledge and, at the same time, might prove the value of the registry... ...

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• 2011
• October 2011

Brad Carrington Raewyn Carol Melissa Farrant Shepherd Mutch Michie O'Donnell Photos BM CCJ RM C M BSc (Hons), PhD PhD MBChB., DipRACOG., Cert.HPRT, FRACP., PhD BPsych (Hons), MPsych, GradDip Ed, PhD Co-Head, Aboriginal Health and Wellbeing Honorary ...

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