Category: Professional Services Sub Category: Scientific Research
Menzies Research Institute
Address: Level 2, Surrey House,199 Macquarie St
, HOBART, TAS
Phone: 03-62267700
Fax: 03-62267704
In the late 1980s, the Menzies Foundation supported the establishment of an epidemiology research centre at the University of Tasmania in Hobart, to be named the Menzies Centre for Population Health Research.
The Foundation provided annual funding to the Institute and was successful in obtaining matching funds from the Tasmanian Government. The Menzies Centre for Population Health Research was formed in 1988 and became the Menzies Research Institute in 2004.
From modest beginnings, the Menzies Research Institute quickly gained a reputation for its ground-breaking work into the link between babies’ sleeping position and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).
The Institute developed into an established centre for population health research, with a global reputation in epidemiology. Some notable successes include:
highlighting the importance of vitamin D in the development of bones in children and adults;
evidence of the link between early life sun exposure and susceptibility to multiple sclerosis;
discovering genes that cause disease; and
showing the link between infant bedding and childhood asthma.
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