Research activity | A Better Start - National Science Challenge

Researchers find good sleep important for healthy weight in children

by Challenge communications | Sep 3, 2018 | Clinical study, Healthy Weight, Intervention, Media release, Peer reviewed publication, Research output, Science theme leader, Updates

Two Challenge researchers Rachael Taylor and Barry Taylor are part of a team that has found a sleep intervention in infancy reduced the risk of obesity for those children later in life. Professor Rachael Taylor, Director of the Edgar Diabetes and Obesity Research...

Proposals for joint research with China

by Challenge communications | Aug 7, 2017 | Media release, Research activity

NZ China Centre for Non-Communicable Diseases offers scholarships for PhD students

Innovative child health research fund launches

by Challenge communications | Feb 1, 2017 | Healthy Weight, Media release, Research activity, Resilient Teens, Successful Literacy and Learning

A multi-million dollar funding pool to foster research that delivers tangible benefits to New Zealand children and their families was launched today.

Multi-million dollar funding collaboration to improve child health

by Challenge communications | Dec 21, 2016 | Media release, Research activity

A Better Start, one of the country’s 11 National Science Challenges, and Cure Kids, New Zealand’s largest national child health research charity, have joined forces to create a new contestable fund in child health.