by michelecrawshaw | Aug 28, 2022 | Healthy Weight, Media release
Six hundred babies and their whānau are being recruited for an innovative new sleep study in Aotearoa. The Moemoeā study, funded by A Better Start National Science Challenge, will provide babies and their families with a sleep intervention toolkit to test over six...
by michelecrawshaw | Apr 8, 2022 | Healthy Weight, Media release, Newsletter
A Better Start National Science Challenge has welcomed a Government proposal to ban fizzy and sugary drinks in primary schools. Under the new initiative, announced by Minister of Education Chris Hipkins yesterday, pupils will only be allowed to drink water, milk and...
by michelecrawshaw | Nov 9, 2021 | Expert opinion, Healthy Weight, Media release
by Professor Boyd Swinburn, Professor of Population Nutrition and Global Health, School of Population Health, University of Auckland Stories of children going to school on empty stomachs with no lunches in their school bags hit us hard. There is a desperate unfairness...
by michelecrawshaw | Jul 25, 2021 | Healthy Weight, Media release, News, Resilient Teens, Successful Literacy and Learning, Vision Matauranga
A Better Start E Tipu e Rea National Science Challenge has helped to inform the next steps for the country’s Well Child Tamariki Ora programme, which provides health and development screening for children from birth to five years. A major review, commissioned by the...
by michelecrawshaw | Jul 22, 2021 | Grants & Funding, Healthy Weight, Media release, News, Resilient Teens, Successful Literacy and Learning
A study to measure the mental health of young people who grow up in areas with unhealthy environmental features, such as gaming venues, takeaway shops and liquor outlets, is one of 12 projects to get the greenlight through a new $4M collaboration to fund child health...
by michelecrawshaw | Jul 20, 2021 | Grants & Funding, Healthy Weight, Media release, News, Pacific advisory group, Resilient Teens, Successful Literacy and Learning
A Better Start E Tipu e Rea, the New Zealand government’s National Science Challenge, is investing $1 million in Pasifika-led child health research working with Pasifika communities. It is seeking to fund innovative research aimed at delivering practical,...
