by dbak580 | Jul 4, 2023 | Healthy Weight, Media release, News, Updates
The number of children globally with diabetes may have spiked 40 percent over the past three decades, which has seen calls for Kiwis to change their lifestyle. Director of A Better Start National Science Challenge Wayne Cutfield spoke with AM Show’s co-host Ryan...
by dbak580 | Jun 23, 2023 | Events, Media release, News
A Better Start is excited to be a part of this years New Zealand Science Festival. With our very own A Better Starts’ Deputy Director Professor Barry Taylor joining Healthier Kiwis: A National Science Challenges Panel to discuss how can we improve the health and...
by dbak580 | May 30, 2023 | Healthy Weight, Media release, News, Updates
Beyond Smokers and their Lungs “With complex modelling of new data, we are further analysing the decline in the number of preschool children who are overweight and obese. This decline is unlike any other country in the world and importantly has occurred almost...
by dbak580 | Apr 27, 2023 | Media release, News, Newsletter, Resilient Teens
Nick leads the big data analysis of ‘resilient teen’ outcomes and is part of the ‘Big Data’ team at A Better Start National Science Challenge. Nick is a Research Fellow at the Department of Women’s and Children’s Health within the Dunedin School of...
by dbak580 | Apr 5, 2023 | Expert opinion, Healthy Weight, Media release, News, Peer reviewed publication, Successful Literacy and Learning, Updates
Members of the School Start Time Study Advisory Group: Sleep-In to Stay Well Members: Charmaine Barber, Sarah Hetrick, Liza Edmonds, Rachael W Taylor, Mohamed Alansari, Leigh Signal, Jillian Haszard, Jacinta Oldehaver, Barbara Galland. Sarah Hetrick and Racheal...
by dbak580 | Mar 30, 2023 | Events, Media release, News
Dr Rachael Glassey is a Senior Research Fellow in the newly created Te Kura I Awarua Rangahau Māori Centre at EIT | Te Pūkenga. Rachael, 33, joined EIT | Te Pūkenga last year to work on a community research project, Nourishing Hawke’s Bay: He wairua tō te kai. She has...
