Skip to content
The Kids Research Institute Australia logo
Donate

Search

First Nations Health and Equity

Aboriginal health is everyone's business. The needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families and kids is integrated into all relevant areas of our work. Improving the health and wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander kids and families is an overarching priority for every team at The Kids.

Memory wiping technique opens new frontiers in stem cell medicine

In 2006, when a Japanese scientist building on the earlier work of a British biologist discovered a way to reprogram adult cells into other cell types – making them ‘pluripotent’ – the scientific world was entranced.

Learning to cope with uncertainty

A small group program to help parents tackle anxiety in young children diagnosed with autism has found significant improvements in both children’s anxiety and parental mental health and wellbeing.

Applying the arts to wild little hearts

When author Maurice Sendak first sketched out the story of a rambunctious little boy sent to his room without supper, there’s no way he could have known his rollercoaster tale of childhood imagination would still be speaking to the hearts of wild young things more than six decades on.

RSV hospitalisation admissions slashed by new immunisation program

An Australian-first study, funded by Perth Children's Hospital Foundation, demonstrating the effectiveness of a new immunisation against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) for babies found it to be almost 90 per cent effective in reducing hospitalisation rates.

Rainbow roadmap a source of Indigenous pride

Alarming statistics laying bare the social emotional wellbeing and mental health challenges facing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander LGBTQA+ youth are driving a multi-partner program to provide them with greater support.

Shopping for data to drive discoveries

What if researchers could shop for different data to help uncover how, when and why chronic conditions such as asthma, obesity, allergies and poor mental health develop?

CliniKids puts the ‘evidence’ in evidence-based practice

Autism researchers at The Kids have led the most comprehensive review of the evidence for autism intervention ever compiled

Putting malaria on the map

A global network of researchers led by Kerry M Stokes Chair of Child Health, Professor Pete Gething, is working to help support informed decision-making for malaria control at international, regional and national scales.

The one-stop app helping to keep kids safe online

Parents, carers and educators have embraced an innovative tool in the battle to keep kids safe online - Beacon, an Australia-first, evidence-based cyber safety app.