Learn about GenV: your opportunity to create a healthier future GenV is a research project built by Victorian families for all families. If you join, you will contribute to healthier children, parents, and families in the future.
Improving care and development through world-class research GenV will work in partnership with Victoria’s health organisations to collect data that will enhance researchers' capacity to understand patient outcomes.
Comprehensive research for precision policy and service delivery GenV aims to transform how we conduct research into health and wellbeing, establishing the foundations for new approaches to data-led policy and strategy development, and the strengthening of service delivery.
Our achievements, partners and key people Learn more about GenV’s collaborative partnerships with leading universities, institutes, and service providers, and meet the people who help to bring our exciting vision to life.
Home\About GenV\What is GenV? Back What is GenV? What is GenV? GenV is an Australian research platform with a simple goal: better child and adult health and wellbeing. Already more than 124,000 children and parents across Victoria have joined. Built by Victorian families, for all Australians. Led from the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute and supported by The Royal Children’s Hospital and University of Melbourne, GenV helps answer big questions – for today (like mental health, learning, obesity, autism, women’s health) and into the future (like diabetes, heart disease, Alzheimer’s, and more). WHERE EVERY CHILD AND PARENT CAN HELP DELIVER REAL-WORLD SOLUTIONS. With openness, fairness and inclusivity at its core, GenV securely links information, assessments and samples with health and service data. Families, researchers, policymakers, services and communities benefit, working side by side to find and test solutions that improve lives not just in Australia but worldwide. GenV appeals to everyone, but it can mean different things for different people: GENV FOR PARENTS With very little effort, help create a better future for all children and families. GENV FOR HEALTH PROFESSIONALS Prediction, prevention and treatment with greater speed and precision. GENV FOR HEALTH ORGANISATIONS Understand long-term patient outcomes and shape a healthier future. GENV FOR RESEARCHERS View parallel birth and parent cohorts for long-term insights and effective interventional research. GENV FOR POLICYMAKERS Strengthen community services through data-led policy development. GENV FOR PARENTS With very little effort, help create a better future for all children and families. GENV FOR HEALTH PROFESSIONALS Prediction, prevention and treatment with greater speed and precision. GENV FOR HEALTH ORGANISATIONS Understand long-term patient outcomes and shape a healthier future. GENV FOR RESEARCHERS View parallel birth and parent cohorts for long-term insights and effective interventional research. GENV FOR POLICYMAKERS Strengthen community services through data-led policy development. All families living in Victoria with children born between 4 October 2021 to 3 October 2023 are invited to join GenV. GenV is designed to help people (including doctors, hospitals, people who design community services, and more) to understand the things that might affect your, or your children’s, health and wellbeing. With more understanding, we can find faster, better ways to treat and prevent problems like pre-term birth, common allergies, anxiety, obesity, and much more. Hopefully, GenV can help make Victoria’s families and children healthier than ever before. If you choose to join, GenV collects a small amount of information from you as a parent, and from your baby when they are born. This information is added to other information that is already collected throughout every person’s life as standard, like hospital records for example. Together, this will provide a “more complete picture” of health and development in Victoria, and help us work towards a healthier state.