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Longest running Aborginal health study to enter new stage

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Aboriginal mum sits smiling behind her baby who is sleeping in a Pepi-Pod
Natasha, with baby Zeliciah, is one of the 400 Queensland families to use the Pepi-Pod in the research trial to reduce infant mortality rates.(Supplied: Professor Jeanine Young)

For thirty years, researchers at the Menzies School of Health research have been tracking the health of babies born to Aboriginal mothers at Royal Darwin Hospital between 1987 and 1990.

Remarkably, researchers have been able to maintain the database of almost all 689 mothers in the original Aboriginal Birth Cohort.

The longest running cohort study of aboriginal health will be continued thanks to $12 million dollar cash injection by the National Health and Medical Research Council.

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Professor Alan Cass, Director of Menzies School of Health Research

Dianne Walker, mother of research participant

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Darwin, Australia, Health, Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander), Academic Research
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