A new study has found the vast majority of Australian children with mental health disorders are not getting professional help with girls, young children and families from non-English-speaking backgrounds the least likely to access services #mcri abhi kumar bit.ly/2F6h6HM

Team photo with my amazing PhD supervisors Prof Sharon Goldfeld Anna Price and Fiona Mensah.

VERY proud and excited for Hannah Bryson who has published her PhD paper. Check it out: hair cortisol as a measure of the stress response to social adversity. Some surprising results. bit.ly/2Kd5CXs Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI) @CCCH_AU Anna Price

Great leadership from @mereoconnor and Dan Cloney Love our paper showing that positive mental health is important. Let’s remember to address positive mental health AND mental health problems. Positive mental health is not one minus mental health problems!

Our newest published paper is out on the right@home recruitment and retention processes!

Our new paper is out, looking at longitudinal relationships between maternal mental health and hair cortisol. A great MBiostats project by Melissa Middleton with (importantly) predominately null findings. Anna Price Prof Sharon Goldfeld bit.ly/3bYuM99

Disadvantaged mothers’ #mentalhealth and wellbeing improves after regular maternal and #childhealth nurse home visits during #pregnancy, continuing up until the child turns two, new research led by Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI)’ Prof Sharon Goldfeld finds. Read more:mcri.edu.au/news/maternal-…

New lit review finds associations between adversity and hair cortisol (measure of stress) in young children are limited. Hope this is a useful resource for early childhood researchers thinking about using hair cort. Anna Price Prof Sharon Goldfeld @CCCH_AU bit.ly/2NwiwmB

If you were interested in reading our new child hair cortisol lit review, but couldn’t access full text or didn’t want to navigate logins for institute access.. here’s a direct link to the free full text! bit.ly/2O5ydRw

Our new findings suggest many 5-year-old children experiencing adversity don’t have the language and pre-literacy skills needed to thrive in formal literacy education, in the year before they start school. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14… Prof Sharon Goldfeld @CCCH_AU

A systematic review of associations between social adversity and child hair cortisol: Associations between social adversities and child hair cortisol were limited. Hannah Bryson Anna Price Prof Sharon Goldfeld @CCCH_AU #cortisol #hair sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

How easily a child learns to read largely depends on their #language & pre-reading skills. A Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI) study found that over 50 % of Aus children living in adversity don’t have the skills they need to learn to #read. Prof Sharon Goldfeld Hannah Bryson theconversation.com/starting-behin…

Our new research shows mothers’ mental health symptoms persist - and often worsen - from pregnancy to child age 5. Health services need to better support maternal mental health beyond the first year postpartum. @CCCH_AU Prof Sharon Goldfeld Anna Price bit.ly/3wyHsKY

Our new research is out showing the impacts of COVID-19 and the 2020 lockdowns on families who were already experiencing adversity. And here we are in 2021, in more extended lockdowns but with fewer social & economic supports for families.

A third of Australian mums experiencing disadvantage have suffered #job or income loss as well as high rates of stress during the #COVID-19 #pandemic, a new study led by MCRI finds. Read more: mcri.edu.au/news/mums-expe…

So excited to be part of this landmark study and working with all of the excellent people involved. 🎉🎉

This week we hosted a number of EDGE seminars which were a special opportunity to talk directly with members of the ECEC sector. Thank you to everyone who attended and to nameless, @REEaChUniMelb, Faculty of Education, University of Melbourne, Hannah Bryson, and @DETVic. lnkd.in/d6q7FUck