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Have you had the chance to listen in on JDRF Australia’s T1D Tune In interview with Professor Liz Davis?

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After living in Perth for the past three years, Dr Marie-Anne Burckhardt has headed back home to continue her type 1 diabetes research.

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Good news for students

The Children’s Diabetes Centre welcomes a new Federal Government initiative to support children with Type 1 Diabetes in schools. The two-year $6 million schools education and training program will be implemented at every school with a student with Type 1 Diabetes.

Research

Genome-wide association study identifies five loci associated with lung function

Pulmonary function measures are heritable traits that predict morbidity and mortality and define chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

Research

Forest cover and climate as potential drivers for dengue fever in Sumatra and Kalimantan 2006–2016: a spatiotemporal analysis

Dengue fever in Sumatra and Kalimantan was highly seasonal and associated with climate factors and deforestation

Aboriginal Advisory Committee - Kids Easy Breathing Study

We are looking for Aboriginal parents who are passionate about lung health to join the Aboriginal Advisory Committee (AAC) for our Kids Easy Breathing Study (KEBS). Research shows 1 in 5 Aboriginal* bubs in hospital for bronchiolitis (a common viral chest infection) later had serious damage to their lungs. The aim of our study is to find out why Aboriginal bubbies are more likely to develop long-term lung sickness.

The SEW-Arts Framework

The SEW-Arts Framework is a flexible strengths-based tool developed through conversations with young people, artists, and arts organisations.

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Research findings

'Revisiting hypoglycaemia management in children with type 1 diabetes on contemporary therapy' survey results.

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PCH Schools visit

Our head of epidemiology research Dr Aveni Haynes and exercise researcher Dr Wayne Soon were lucky enough to be invited to Perth Children’s Hospital School to discuss type 1 diabetes and the research we are doing here at the Children’s Diabetes Centre.

Research

Protocol for a nested case-control study design for omics investigations in the Environmental Determinants of Islet Autoimmunity cohort

The Environmental Determinants of Islet Autoimmunity (ENDIA) pregnancy-birth cohort investigates the developmental origins of type 1 diabetes (T1D), with recruitment between 2013 and 2019. ENDIA is the first study in the world with comprehensive data and biospecimen collection during pregnancy, at birth and through childhood from at-risk children who have a first-degree relative with T1D.