Updates
The latest from A Better StartUPCOMING WEBINAR: The latest research on SUDI
When: Wednesday 8 September, 12:30pm REGISTER HERE to book your free place and receive the Zoom link. Are you a Well Child provider or a researcher with a special interest in SUDI? A Better Start National Science Challenge and Whānau Āwhina Plunket invite you to...
Latest publications: Healthy weight, Mental resilience and Successful learning
HEALTHY WEIGHT Brown, V., Moodie, M., Sultana, M., Ngoc Quynh Tran, H., Hunter, KE., Byrne, R., Zarnowiecki, D., Seidler, AL., Golley, R., Taylor, R., Hesketh, KD., Matvienko-Sika, K. (2021) Protocol for the development of Core Outcomes Sets for early intervention...
WATCH: Help Me Sleep webinar – the latest research on infant sleep
Discover the latest research on infant sleep in this webinar - the first in a series we're co-hosting with Whānau Āwhina Plunket. WATCH THE WEBINAR HERE In this webinar we look at: What is normal sleep, helping babies to fall asleep, and keeping them asleep The...
Meet The Researcher – Tufulasi Taleni
Tufulasi Taleni is part of A Better Start’s Successful Learning team. Here he talks about his wish for this year, the best piece of advice his father gave him, and the best book he has read recently. Can you tell us a little about your current A Better Start...
Read our July newsletter
Say hello to our latest newsletter! Read it HERE Find out all about our 12 new child health research projects, our new $1M Pasifika Research Fund, the Better Start programme to lift literacy skills of 70,000 tamariki, how the Challenge has helped inform the Well...
Geography’s affect on young people’s mental health – RNZ interview
Listen to researcher Dr Matt Hobbs talk to Radio New Zealand’s Nine To Noon programme about an innovative new research project, funded by A Better Start National Science Challenge and Cure Kids, to measure the mental health of young people who grow up in areas with...
Kia ora to our new Board Chair
Kia ora to Dr Pat Tuohy, who is A Better Start E Tipu e Rea's new Board Chair. Pat brings with him a wealth of experience in the health sector and until recently was the Ministry of Health's Chief Advisor for Child and Youth Health. He has spent 10 years as a...
Our Year In Review
See what A Better Start National Science Challenge researchers have been up to this year, in our Year in Review Some of the highlights include: Joining forces with Cure Kids to create a $4M contestable fund, seeking proposals for high quality translational research...
A Better Start informs next steps for Well Child review
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...
A Better Start Literacy Approach gets $10 million boost
An innovative research-based approach to how New Zealand children are taught to read – developed with funding from A Better Start National Science Challenge – is to be extended across the country with a $10 million Ministry of Education contract. The Better Start...
$4M awarded to new research addressing child health challenges
A study to measure the mental health of young people who grow up in areas with unhealthy environmental features, such as gaming venues, takeaway shops and liquor outlets, is one of 12 projects to get the greenlight through a new $4M collaboration to fund child...
$1M research funding to improve Pasifika child health
A Better Start E Tipu e Rea, the New Zealand government’s National Science Challenge, is investing $1 million in Pasifika-led child health research working with Pasifika communities. It is seeking to fund innovative research aimed at delivering practical,...
