by ksch009 | Jul 20, 2020 | Big Data, Healthy Weight, Media release, Resilient Teens, Successful Literacy and Learning
Kia ora and welcome to Michele Crawshaw. Michele is our new Senior Communications & Marketing Adviser. Michele brings with her a wealth of experience as an award-winning magazine editor and a passionate digital, social media, video and print storyteller. We...
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 | Feb 10, 2020 | Healthy Weight, Media release
Big, ‘bonny’ babies are traditionally celebrated as pictures of health, but a new international study shows women born heavy were on average nearly 4kg heavier by their mid-twenties, when they were also 50 percent more likely to develop obesity. The study, an...
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 | Dec 2, 2019 | Healthy Weight, Media release, Resilient Teens
A Better Start National Science Challenge’s Model Acceptance study is the first large-scale survey on the subject of caregiver acceptability of early childhood obesity prediction models in a multi-ethnic cohort of parents, caregivers, and grandparents anywhere in the...
