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A Better Start informs next steps for Well Child review

A Better Start informs next steps for Well Child review

by michelecrawshaw | Jul 25, 2021 | Healthy Weight, Media release, News, Resilient Teens, Successful Literacy and Learning, Vision Matauranga

A Better Start E Tipu e Rea National Science Challenge has helped to inform the next steps for the country’s Well Child Tamariki Ora programme, which provides health and development screening for children from birth to five years. A major review, commissioned by the...
Queen’s honour for A Better Start professor

Queen’s honour for A Better Start professor

by michelecrawshaw | Jun 8, 2021 | Directorate, Media release, News, Newsletter, Our people, Vision Matauranga

A Better Start National Science Challenge Professor Angus Hikairo Macfarlane has received one of the Queen’s highest honours. Professor Macfarlane is a leader with A Better Start’s Successful Learning team, and is the Challenge’s Kaihautu Māori. He has been made...
Announcing the Lifecourse project

Announcing the Lifecourse project

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...
WATCH: Cure Kids and A Better Start joint funding round Q&A webinar

WATCH: Cure Kids and A Better Start joint funding round Q&A webinar

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...
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...
Farewell to our Board Chair, Pat Snedden

Farewell to our Board Chair, Pat Snedden

by ksch009 | May 13, 2020 | Big Data, Healthy Weight, Media release, Newsletter, Resilient Teens, Science theme leader, Successful Literacy and Learning, Vision Matauranga

After almost six years Pat Snedden has stepped down as the Chair of A Better Start E Tipu e Rea National Science Challenge. Pat’s influence on the Challenge and it’s direction has been enormous and we are hugely thankful to him for this. Pat’s commitments have grown...
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