by ksch009 | Jun 9, 2020 | Big Data, Directorate, Healthy Weight, Media release, Resilient Teens, Successful Literacy and Learning
Congratulations to A Better Start’s Challenge Director, Professor Wayne Cutfield, who has been awarded this year’s Gluckman Medal for his outstanding contributions to research. The Gluckman Medal is an extremely prestigious award and is awarded each year...
by ksch009 | May 13, 2020 | Big Data, Healthy Weight, Media release, Newsletter, Resilient Teens, Science theme leader, Successful Literacy and Learning, Vision Matauranga
After almost six years Pat Snedden has stepped down as the Chair of A Better Start E Tipu e Rea National Science Challenge. Pat’s influence on the Challenge and it’s direction has been enormous and we are hugely thankful to him for this. Pat’s commitments have grown...
by ksch009 | Mar 2, 2020 | Big Data, Media release, Resilient Teens
Novel approach enables improved capabilities for mental health research and evaluation in New Zealand A Better Start National Science Challenge researchers, Nicholas Bowden, and co-authors from the Big Data and Resilient Teens research teams have developed a new and...
by ksch009 | Jan 22, 2020 | Big Data, Healthy Weight, Media release
A Better Start National Science Challenge’s research into the association between antibiotic exposure and childhood obesity is one of the largest studies of its kind ever conducted. It used a sample size of nearly 290,000 children and their mother’s (151,359 children...
by ksch009 | Nov 8, 2019 | Big Data, Resilient Teens
The rate at which antidepressants are being prescribed to young New Zealanders has risen in the last nine years. The research, by the universities of Auckland and Otago, shows the biggest increase was in the 13-17 year old groups, with an 83 per cent rise. Over this...
by ksch009 | Jun 16, 2019 | Big Data, Healthy Weight, Media release
Differences in socioeconomic conditions are a major driver of unequal obesity rates among Māori, Pacific and European children, a new study shows. The study – the first of its kind in Aotearoa New Zealand – found that the difference in numbers of four-year-old...
