by ksch009 | Jun 9, 2020 | Big Data, Directorate, Healthy Weight, Media release, Resilient Teens, Successful Literacy and Learning
Congratulations to A Better Start’s Challenge Director, Professor Wayne Cutfield, who has been awarded this year’s Gluckman Medal for his outstanding contributions to research. The Gluckman Medal is an extremely prestigious award and is awarded each year...
by ksch009 | Jun 2, 2020 | Media release
A Better Start congratulates the recipients of this year’s Queen’s Birthday Honours awards. Distinguished Professor Jane Harding was made a dame for world-leading research into newborn babies. A well-deserved honour and a great recognition of Dame...
by ksch009 | May 25, 2020 | Media release, Resilient Teens
A Better Start’s Resilient Teens team describe the system architecture for their youth mental health chatbot systems, including the new Aroha chatbot, which supports youth with Covid-19 related issues. See the published pre-print paper.
by ksch009 | May 21, 2020 | Media release, Resilient Teens
The Ministry of Health today announced more choice of mental health and wellbeing support for young people. This included funding into providing a variety of tools and resources to help young people manage anxiety due to the uncertainty caused by Covid-19. Read the...
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...
