As well as enabling long-term research capacity, ORIGINS provides ‘real-time’ feedback to parents, allowing early intervention and potentially changing the health trajectory of the child.
Professor Desiree Silva, Co-Director
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The ORIGINS Project, a collaboration between Telethon Kids Institute and Joondalup Health Campus, is following the progress of pregnant women, their partners and infants for the first five years of the child’s life. The project collects data and samples from 10,000 families to see how a child’s early environment and parents’ physical health and genetics influence the risk of a wide range of diseases and conditions.

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The Peer to Peer Network Pilot will co-design a peer to peer networking model to connect Learning for Life families with one another to fill gaps in support and add value to local communities, with the aim to scale it across the Smith Family’s more than 90 communities.

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