First published Wednesday 13 December 2017.
About ORIGINS
The ultimate goal of The ORIGINS Project is to reduce the rising epidemic of non-communicable diseases through 'a healthy start to life'.
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The ultimate goal of The ORIGINS Project is to reduce the rising epidemic of non-communicable diseases through 'a healthy start to life'.
As well as ORIGINS long-term core research, there are a number of clinical trials, early interventions and shorter-term research studies that sit within the project.
The ORIGINS Project provides researchers, students, clinicians and universities with a unique opportunity to play a crucial role in changing the health of future generations.
The ORIGINS Project Co-directors Professor Desiree Silva and Professor Susan Prescott
The Federal Government has joined with the Paul Ramsay Foundation to fund the project, with each pledging $13 million over 10 years.
The massive research undertaking, which will follow the progress of pregnant women, their partners and babies for the first five years of the baby’s life, grew out of the increasing understanding that an individual’s lifetime health and disease may be programmed at a very early stage while a child is still in the womb.
Read the full feature The Advocate Community Newspaper here.
First published Wednesday 13 December 2017.