Updates

The latest from A Better Start

Healthier Kiwis: A National Science Challenges Panel

A Better Start is excited to be a part of this years New Zealand Science Festival. With our very own A Better Starts' Deputy Director Professor Barry Taylor joining Healthier Kiwis: A National Science Challenges Panel to discuss how can we improve the health and...

World No Tobacco Day 31st May 2023

Beyond Smokers and their Lungs   “With complex modelling of new data, we are further analysing the decline in the number of preschool children who are overweight and obese. This decline is unlike any other country in the world and importantly has occurred...

Q&A with Dr Nick Bowden

Nick leads the big data analysis of 'resilient teen' outcomes and is part of the ‘Big Data’ team at A Better Start National Science Challenge. Nick is a Research Fellow at the Department of Women’s and Children’s Health within the Dunedin School of Medicine at the...

Read our August update

Say hello to our August 2022 update. Read it HERE Find out about our new innovative sleep trial for babies; what teachers and schools think of our literacy programme which is being rolled out nationwide; watch our latest child health and wellbeing webinars; read...

Evidence-based support for parents of autistic children

A new research project is underway to provide evidence-based support for parents of autistic children. Researchers will evaluate whether web-based content and online virtual coaching interventions can support autistic children with their social communication, as...

Wanted: 600 babies for innovative sleep trial

Six hundred babies and their whānau are being recruited for an innovative new sleep study in Aotearoa. The Moemoeā study, funded by A Better Start National Science Challenge, will provide babies and their families with a sleep intervention toolkit to test over six...

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