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Collecting DNA samples from Australian families affected by diabetes.

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The year 2013 saw the progress in our research from purely lab-based studies towards taking a step closer to translational research.

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This study is helping us to learn how type 1 diabetes develop and ways to delay and prevent it.

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Using the WA Data Linkage System to provide information of the incidence and relative risk of T1D co-morbidities and mortality during early adulthood.

Our Child Health Analytics Team uses cutting-edge technologies to better understand how and why the health and wellbeing of children varies from place to place. We develop innovative geospatial methods that can harness large, complex datasets to pinpoint hotspots of elevated risk, evaluate change through time, and explore underlying drivers.

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The Ngangk Ngabala Ngoonda (Sun Safety) project aims to address an urgent health issue and knowledge gap by generating a greater understanding of the barriers to sun protective behaviours and skin cancer prevention among Aboriginal CYP and their families in WA.

Aboriginal families and communities have endured the imposition of countless ‘solutions’ and had to live with the consequences of these ineffective initiatives. Those consequence are sadly evident in the unrelenting gap in outcomes for Aboriginal kids, compared with other Australian children.

In 1998, The Kids Research Institute Australia embarked on one of the most ambitious population health projects in Western Australian history.

A powerful data tool developed by international child development researcher Professor Sally Brinkman and former research assistant Tom Brown could improve early childhood support for children around the world after being launched in Dubai this year.

A program unfolding in four very diverse locations across Western Australia is working to give children aged 0–4 the best start in life.