First 2000 Days

Program objective

1. To quantify and describe the health, social and economic profiles of mothers, babies, children, and families in NSW, including families with multiple indicators of disadvantage.
2. To quantify the patterns and prevalence of health behaviours and health conditions in mothers, babies, children and families.
3. To examine the health, development and wellbeing outcomes of mothers, babies, children, and families in the whole population, as well as higher risk groups.
4. To quantify and describe patterns of health and social services received by mothers, babies, children and families from the prenatal period through childhood.
5. To develop and assess the utility of risk prediction models for poor health, development and wellbeing outcomes, to inform universal vs. targeted service delivery approaches for at risk populations.
6. To evaluate the impact of key policy and service delivery initiatives designed to support the health, development and wellbeing of mothers, babies, children and families in NSW.
7. To build the capacity of NSW Health staff to use novel datasets contained in the NSW Child E-Cohort data asset through co-supervision of the proposed Post Doctoral Fellow, close collaboration between the NSW Child E-Cohort project team and the sharing of code for managing and analysing data and other related materials.

This program is funded and administered by NSW Health.

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