Our Children

~ Our Future

Our mothers and children are the foundation of our future.  It is our responsibility to ensure that we provide them with the best possible start in life.  It is becoming increasingly clear that many diseases and problems, that we once thought to be caused at birth or in early childhood, actually have their origins during foetal life.

Our knowledge of foetal life is limited.  The more we uncover the more we realise how little we know.  The more we learn the better we will be able to deal with the problems that can occur during pregnancy and childhood.

Western Sydney is a great base for pregnancy and childhood research.  Nepean Hospital is one of the largest maternity units in Australia.  We have a very stable population where generation after generation continue to reside in the area.  This gives a unique opportunity for long-term epidemiological studies and makes monitoring of research far easier.

The people of Western Sydney will benefit in many ways from research being carried out in the area.  Research opportunities will help attract the best clinicians and academics into the area.  It will also encourage pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies to consider investing in the area.  Licensing discoveries will open up national and international markets.  Most importantly we will be building a foundation for our future.

Statistics ~ The Scope of the Problem