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Improving healthcare for children with bronchiolitis, brain cancer and epilepsy and boosting the mental health of transgender young people are the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI) projects to be awarded new federal funding. Professor Franz Babl, Dr Sarah Stephenson and Associate
An ambitious national plan to embed music, visual art and other creative practice into healthcare and the youth justice system has received funding. Murdoch Children’s Research Institute’s (MCRI) Justice Health Group and The Foundation for Social Health (FSH) received support from Creative
This study investigates mental health outcomes and associated factors, such as family environment, social participation, and quality of life, in adolescents following mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI).
Newborn recruitment has closed for a world-first study that is tracking the health of an entire generation. However eligible parents and carers in Victoria can still enrol their children at any age. Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI)’s Generation Victoria (GenV) will follow the
Our Global Adolescent Health group responds to the unmet health needs of today’s adolescents to achieve equitable health and wellbeing outcomes now and into the future.
Adolescence encompasses the transition from childhood through to adulthood, years that are formative for physical growth as well as social and emotional development.
CRE in Global Adolescent Health — 2020–2025 (archived) This CRE generated research to drive investment in neglected areas of adolescent health, including for groups experiencing significant discrimination or disadvantage, specifically Indigenous young people and young people in contact with
A special one-off physical health assessment is offered to 11-12-year-old children in Growing Up in Australia.
Examining the impact of Australia’s social media age-restrictions on adolescent mental health and wellbeing. The Connected Minds study aims to investigate the impact of Australia’s social media age-restrictions on adolescent development, including their mental health and wellbeing.
We study of the health of communities and populations, including the determinants, distribution and management of health at the population level.
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