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Growth & Development

Research within this theme is exploring what it takes to help a child flourish and develop resilience as well as investigating long-term impacts on mental and physical health from childhood experience.

Along with physical growth and development these sub-projects explore what it means for a child to truly flourish.

They explore how flourishment can be enhanced as well as looking at the long-term impacts of childhood trauma on health and development.

IRON Child

One in three children in WA suffer iron deficiency leading to poor sleep, fussy eating, and behavioural difficulties. This project aims to develop mechanisms to prevent and treat the problems before they become clinically significant and translate findings to other communities to improve childhood wellness.