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A new global analysis led by Imperial College London, assessing the height and weight of school-age (5-19 years old) children and adolescents around the world has been published in The Lancet. Prof Chris Cowell, Director of Research at Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network (SCHN) along with Prof Louise Baur and A/Prof Sarah Garnett, specializing in paediatrics and child...

Calling all early career researchers! The Bupa Health Foundation aims to not only support research through funding and partnerships, but also to develop the capabilities, skills and networks of researchers to improve the translation of their findings so as to have real impact on health and care. The Bupa Health Foundation is seeking nominations for its 2019 Emerging Health Research Awa...

A number of researchers from Kids Research will lead and collaborate on projects supported by the latest round of National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) funding. Covering a broad range of disciplines, the projects will improve our understanding of adolescent medicine, gene therapy, immunology, congenital heart disease, cancer and burns to enable the development of innovative trea...

The NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Adolescent Health (CRE) is a brand new Australia-wide collaboration bringing together a team of interdisciplinary researchers led by the University of Sydney’s Professors Kate Steinbeck, Rachel Skinner, Angus Dawson and Louise Baur. The CRE will explore the opportunities, challenges and costs of working with adolescents and their families to make health...