Melissa Wake

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Cure Kids Professor of Child Health Research

New Zealand

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Melissa Wake is the Cure Kids Professor of Child Health Research at The Liggins Institute, University of Auckland, New Zealand. Her research focuses on maternal and child health, including the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on perinatal experiences, socioeconomic factors in food distribution, and the association between prenatal influences and adolescent health outcomes. She also investigates movement behaviors in children, the potential of epigenomic screening for intellectual disabilities, and the early predictors of language development.

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New Zealand-Australia LifeCourse Collaboration on Genes, Environment, Nutrition and Obesity (GENO)

Open Date: 2017-01-01

Close Date: 2020-01-01

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An international collaboration to reduce infant obesity in high risk groups

Open Date: 2017-01-01

Close Date: 2018-01-01

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Diet, micronutrients and health in childhood and mid-life

Open Date: 2017-01-01

Close Date: 2017-01-01

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A life course approach to understanding how the first decade of life predicts cardiometabolic profiles at early adolescence: a longitudinal population-based study

Open Date: 2017-01-01

Close Date: 2018-01-01

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Biological, phenotypic and public health costs of risk and protective pathways to non-communicable disease in children and adults: The national Longitudinal Study of Australian Children

Open Date: 2016-01-01

Close Date: 2020-01-01

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Non‐Linear Socioeconomic Inequality in the Distribution of Food Outlets in Metropolitan Melbourne and Regional Victoria, Australia

Body Composition, Body Mass, and Cardiovascular Health in Mid-Childhood and Midlife: A Compositional Data Analysis

Lessons for the Next Global Health Crisis: A Qualitative Systematic Review of Women's Experiences of the Perinatal Period During the COVID‐19 Pandemic in Australia

Maternal Smoking Intensity During Pregnancy and Early Adolescent Cardiovascular Health

The Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Association Between 24-Hour Movement Behavior Compositions With Body Mass Index, Waist Circumference, and Internalizing and Externalizing Symptoms in 6-Year-Old Children

GenV: Preservation of Human Milk for Biological Discovery

Emotional symptoms and inflammatory biomarkers in childhood: Associations in two Australian birth cohorts

Understanding risk and causal mechanisms for developing obesity in infants and young children: A National Institutes of Health workshop

Genome-wide analyses of vocabulary size in infancy and toddlerhood

Improving the identification of bone‐specific physical activity using wrist‐worn accelerometry: A cross‐sectional study in 11–12‐year‐old Australian children

Identifying early language predictors: A replication of Gasparini et al. (2023) confirming applicability in a general population cohort.

Polygenic Risk Scores and the Risk of Childhood Overweight/Obesity in Association With the Consumption of Sweetened Beverages: A Population-Based Cohort Study

Epigenomic newborn screening for conditions with intellectual disability and autistic features in Australian newborns

Global distributions of age- and sex-related arterial stiffness: systematic review and meta-analysis of 167 studies with 509,743 participants

Greenness modifies the association between ambient air pollution and cognitive function in Australian adolescents, but not in mid-life adults

Spoken Expressive Vocabulary in 2-Year-Old Children with Hearing Loss: A Community Study

Using machine‐learning methods to identify early‐life predictors of 11‐year language outcome

Effect of common pregnancy and perinatal complications on offspring metabolic traits across the life course

Validating the ORACollect for the detection of cytomegalovirus

Study protocol: Generation Victoria (GenV) special care nursery registry

Association between children's health-related quality of life, healthcare costs and socioeconomic position: Results from a longitudinal Australian-based study

Grit and working memory training outcomes for children with low working memory.

Association of Polygenic Risk Scores for Hearing Difficulty in Older Adults With Hearing Loss in Mid-Childhood and Midlife: A Population-Based Cross-sectional Study Within the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children.

Collaborators (29)

Arno Schmidt-Trucksäss

Kate Lycett

Toby Mansell

Yichao Wang

David Aguilar

Peter Anderson

Ben Edwards

Ha Nguyet Dao Le

David Godler

Peter Carew

Philip Jansen

Jessica A. Kerr

Charles Burant

Francesco Mattace-Raso

Lisa Hui

Gemma Brailey

Megan Spencer-Smith

Ellen Demerath

Craig Olsson

Angela Morgan

Anneke Grobler

Meike Bartels

Sheena Reilly

Andrew Whitehouse

Peter G. Enticott

Tim Cadman

Telmo Pereira

Cindy Pham

Ellen Verhoef

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