by ksch009 | Feb 26, 2020 | Media release, Resilient Teens
Listen to Dr Joanne Chu from the University of Auckland’s School of Population Health being interviewed on 95b FM – Ready, Steady, Learn. Joanna talks about texting tips for parenting. Joanna’s research focus is on supporting parents through the...
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 30, 2020 | Media release, Resilient Teens
Could feeling more confident and connected parenting your teens be as simple as receiving text messages? Emerging research from the University of Auckland suggests it can. A research team from the University’s School of Population Health has successfully trialled...
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...
by ksch009 | Nov 28, 2019 | Contestable, Media release, Resilient Teens, Vision Matauranga
Read the published report for ‘Te Taonga o Taku Ngākau’ Ancestral Knowledge and the Wellbeing of Tamariki Māori project by Leonie Pihama, Naomi Simmonds and Waikaremoana Waitoki. This project investigates ways that mātauranga Māori related to the raising...
