by michelecrawshaw | Feb 22, 2021 | Contestable, Grants & Funding, Healthy Weight, Media release, News, Resilient Teens, Successful Literacy and Learning, Updates
A raft of applications have been received for A Better Start and Cure Kids’ $4 million joint funding round for child health research. A Better Start and Cure Kids had called for proposals for high quality translational research to improve child and youth...
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 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 | Jan 25, 2021 | Grants & Funding, Healthy Weight, Media release, Resilient Teens, Successful Literacy and Learning, Updates
A Better Start: E Tipu e Rea and Cure Kids are hosting a free webinar on Tuesday 2 February, 2021 at 12pm, Cure Kids and A Better Start Joint Funding Round – Q&A. Register now In this webinar, A Better Start Director Wayne Cutfield and Cure Kids Director of...
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...
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...
