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Exploring whether urinary ferritin can be used as an alternative biomarker for measuring iron status in young children over blood draws.

This study examines the impact of nutrition-related maternal, infant and childhood health outcomes and healthcare utilisation.

This study is aiming to investigate how sun exposure and time outside impacts the health of your child’s eye and eye growth, over a period of rapid growth in their lives.

The BioMood project will study how following a Mediterranean diet during pregnancy affects the gut microbiome, metabolism, and inflammation, with the expectation that it will promote a healthier microbiome and better mental health.

Supporting healthy tummies in bubs

Exploring the challenges to mental and physical health fathers face during their transition to parenthood.

An outline of ORIGINS sub-projects by name

Instructions on the various antenatal samples collected by the Origins project and how to collect them.

Community links and support services

Research

Urine is an attractive biospecimen for nutritional status and population health surveys. It is an excellent non-invasive alternative to blood for appropriate biomarkers in young children and is suitable for home-based collection, enabling representative collections across a population. However, the bulk of literature in this population is restricted to collection in primary care settings.