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.
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Home\About GenV\GenV Students, Fellows & Postdocs\Meet the GenV Fellows Back Meet the GenV Fellows Meet the GenV Fellows Approach us with an idea or keep an eye out for availabilities on this website. You can contact GenV’s Solutions Hub if you are interested in seeking external funding for a GenV research role. Answers could come from a collective resource of the world’s only contemporary early life mega-cohort, Australia’s comprehensive longitudinal geospatial data sources and today’s high-performance computing capabilities. Dr Suzanne Mavoa Geospatial capabilities Where we live, work or play has immense consequences for our health and wellbeing because multiple exposures vary by place and geography. But how and when in the lifecourse does this ‘exposome’ shape our outcomes? Answers could come from a collective resource of the world’s only contemporary early life mega-cohort, Australia’s comprehensive longitudinal geospatial data sources and today’s high-performance computing capabilities. Working with GenV’s Geospatial and Data Linkage Working Groups, Dr Mavoa is developing and applying geospatial methods to help design and create a high spatio-temporal resolution natural and built environment exposome platform for GenV, while developing a forward agenda to address critical questions that could improve risk prediction, policy and/or urban planning. Read about Suzanne’s researcher details. Dr Marzan is applying geospatial methods to help design and create a high spatio-temporal resolution natural and built environment exposome platform for GenV. Dr Melvin Marzan Geospatial cabilities Working with Dr Mavoa, Dr Marzan is applying geospatial methods to help design and create a high spatio-temporal resolution natural and built environment exposome platform for GenV. Dr Marzan’s particular interests are around maternal, perinatal and newborn outcomes, to which geospatial differences could prove to be vital but poorly understood inputs. Read about Melvin’s researcher details. Building on pilot work already undertaken in GenV, Dr Wang is working to bring whole-state clinical data into GenV and its manipulation into end-user data, and is developing a forward research agenda using these data. Dr Jing Wang Clinical and pathology data linkage Curated administrative datasets (like Medicare’s MBS & PBS) are complete and immensely valuable for research. However, this does not extend to clinical data from hospitals or pathology services, which are not collated, harmonized or readily accessible to research. Health services research is thus missing a critical sector. Building on pilot work already undertaken in GenV, Dr Wang is working to bring whole-state clinical data into GenV and its manipulation into end-user data, and is developing a forward research agenda using these data. Read about Jing’s researcher details. For genomics to fully benefit populations via preventive health, very large, unselected early and mid-life cohorts are needed, who will come to experience all but the least common conditions in sizeable numbers. Generation Victoria (GenV) is the only such cohort launched internationally over the last decade. Dr Katherine Lange Genomic strategy For genomics to fully benefit populations via preventive health, very large, unselected early and mid-life cohorts are needed, who will come to experience all but the least common conditions in sizeable numbers. Generation Victoria (GenV) is the only such cohort launched internationally over the last decade. Dr Lange is working with GenV towards a feasible, evidence-based approach to genomic research that is truly population representative of all cultures or languages, so that the full cost-benefit of genomic discoveries can be realised for Australia. Dr Lange is also developing a research agenda and grant applications to support and capitalise on this unique endeavour. Read about Katherine’s researcher details. Dr Kraan is working to maximise the value that could be packed into a fun, technology-driven, school-based, one-hour assessment for every GenV child, while also developing a forward research agenda and grant applications to support and capitalise on this unique endeavour. Dr Claudine Kraan School entry design By 2028, GenV’s children are 6 years old. Every child is at school; a child’s potential is evident across every physical, mental, social and cognitive domain; and incredible technology can capture this growth via rapid app-driven and wearable indicators of body and mind. For example, a single video of a walking child might deliver estimate of body size, proportions, composition, coordination, neurologic function and mental health, while a single disposable patch could transmit heart rate, stress reactivity and oximetry. Dr Kraan is working to maximise the value that could be packed into a fun, technology-driven, school-based, one-hour assessment for every GenV child, while also developing a forward research agenda and grant applications to support and capitalise on this unique endeavour. Read about Claudine’s researcher details.