by michelecrawshaw | Feb 10, 2021 | Grants & Funding, Healthy Weight, Media release, News, Research activity, Resilient Teens, Successful Literacy and Learning, Updates, Vision Matauranga
The lifelong impact of chronic diseases on New Zealand families is at the centre of a major new research programme. Three of the government’s National Science Challenges – A Better Start, Healthier Lives and Ageing Well – are collaborating to develop a research...
by michelecrawshaw | Feb 9, 2021 | Contestable, Events, Healthy Weight, News, Resilient Teens, Successful Literacy and Learning, Vision Matauranga, Webinars
A Better Start and Cure Kids has launched a $4 million contestable fund in child health research. Expressions of Interest close on 17 February 2021. In this webinar, hosted on February 2, 2021, A Better Start Director Wayne Cutfield and Cure Kids Director of Research...
by michelecrawshaw | Feb 8, 2021 | Clinical study, Healthy Weight, Media release, News, Research activity, Updates
Listen to A Better Start’s Director, Professor Wayne Cutfield, talk to Radio New Zealand’s Nine To Noon programme about what happens when gut bacteria from healthy teenagers is introduced, in capsule form, to severely overweight teen’s digestive...
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...
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...
by ksch009 | Oct 9, 2019 | Contestable, Healthy Weight, Media release, Successful Literacy and Learning
A new strategic research project with the aim of improving sleep for pepi and their whanau has been awarded $1.7 million over three years by A Better Start National Science Challenge. As well as improving sleep, this project also aims to reduce excessive weight gain...
