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Parenting

ORIGINS sub-projects are investigating the best way to provide support to new parents and their influence on the health and development of their offspring.

The Flourishing Child PhD Student Award

ORIGINS is looking for a PhD student to join The Flourishing Child sub-project, with the successful applicant receiving a $30,000 award to support their research.

ORIGINS Past Studies

ORIGINS sub-projects that are currently inactive

Research

The psychosocial burden of childhood overweight and obesity: evidence for persisting difficulties in boys and girls

Overweight and obese children reported greater psychosocial distress than healthy weight children, and these differences were more pronounced for girls than boys.

Research

Childhood obesity: what we have learnt from our failure to engage mothers in our intervention

With more than one in four Australian children overweight or obese, and the significant risks this poses for health problems like asthma, depression,...

ORIGINS: A Unique World Class Interventional Research Enabling Platform

An interventional birth cohort researching ways to optimise health and identify conditions that enable every child to flourish from an early age.

News & Events

HBF Funded Sub-Project Runner Up In Ramsay Research Week Competition

ORIGINS sub-project, Flourishing in Fatherhood, has placed runner up in Ramsay Health Care's research-month competition!

News & Events

Nature Play & Grow - based on science but promoting play

A pilot program, teaching families how to 'play' in nature, has been shown to be effective in helping families unlock the mental and physical health benefits of connecting with nature and community through outdoor play, easily, and locally.

News & Events

ORIGINS 5000 Families Report

ORIGINS released a milestone document this week, celebrating our families.

News & Events

Desire to help others helps one ORIGINS family

Cathy Chopping is thankful she decided to try and help others by joining ORIGINS