Daughters’ weight and height affected by mothers who smoke
Director of A Better Start E Tipu e Rea Professor Wayne Cutfield and Senior Research Fellow at the Liggins Institute Dr José Derraik are part of a new study which highlights another reason for women to avoid tobacco during pregnancy. The new international Liggins...Researchers find good sleep important for healthy weight in children
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...Proposals for joint research with China
NZ China Centre for Non-Communicable Diseases offers scholarships for PhD students
Innovative child health research fund launches
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
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.