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World-first research uses gut bacteria to improve health of obese teenagers

World-first research uses gut bacteria to improve health of obese teenagers

by lwan604 | Jan 14, 2021 | Healthy Weight, Media release, Updates

New Zealand research has shown how gut bacteria from healthy, lean people can be used to improve the health of teenagers who are clinically obese. Obese Auckland teenagers who swallowed capsules of the gut bacteria of healthy peers reduced a condition called...
Helping children read and succeed earns top award for A Better Start’s deputy director

Helping children read and succeed earns top award for A Better Start’s deputy director

by lwan604 | Dec 2, 2020 | Media release

Decades of work aimed at improving children’s learning success and wellbeing has earned A Better Start’s deputy director Professor Gail Gillon the University of Canterbury’s highest research honour. Professor Gillon is the winner of the UC 2020 Research Medal, awarded...
A Better Start funding for research to address inequities in Māori maternal health services

A Better Start funding for research to address inequities in Māori maternal health services

by michelecrawshaw | Nov 2, 2020 | Media release, Research activity, Updates, Vision Matauranga

New kaupapa Māori research funded by A Better Start: E Tipu e Rea National Science Challenge aims to address inequities in maternal health services for Māori by using Māori knowledge and tikanga to empower Māori families. Dr Waikaremoana Waitoki from the University of...
Novel approach enables improved capabilities for autism research in New Zealand

Novel approach enables improved capabilities for autism research in New Zealand

by ksch009 | Jul 22, 2020 | Big Data, Media release, Successful Literacy and Learning

A Better Start National Science Challenge’s Big Data theme has developed a method for identifying children and young people on the autism spectrum/Takiwātanga using health data within the Integrated Data Infrastructure (IDI). The method enables research to better...
Kia ora Michele Crawshaw – welcome to the team

Kia ora Michele Crawshaw – welcome to the team

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...
Aroha features on new NZ multimedia hub

Aroha features on new NZ multimedia hub

by ksch009 | Jul 1, 2020 | Media release, Resilient Teens

Aroha features in a new multimedia hub for New Zealand’s tech industry, Umbrellar Connect. Digital journalist Cat Mules recently interviewed the Challenge’s Dr Sarah Hetrick and Tania Cargo about Aroha – a co-designed evidence-based chatbot designed...
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