26 Mar 2024

Next phase in the Dunedin study set to break new ground

From Afternoons, 1:16 pm on 26 March 2024

The famous and world-leading Dunedin Study is gearing up for it's next phase.

From April it's going to launch its assessments of 52-year-olds - adding this age category to its extensive data set.

Heralded as being the most detailed study of human health and development in the world, the longitudinal study has followed the lives of one-thousand-and-thirty-seven babies born between April 1972 and March 1973

The Study Director is Research Professor Moana Theodore talks to Jesse.

University of Otago - tower and garden, Dunedin, New Zealand

Photo: 123rf

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