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How a mother’s environment, diet and lifestyle during pregnancy and before conception can influence her child’s life-long health.
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We conduct high quality randomised clinical trials to answer priority research questions and provide evidence to make recommendations for clinical practice.
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The treatments and interventions we’re interested in that may affect the long-term health of mothers and babies.
What we do![Children playing with toys in the Clinical Research Unit](/content/auckland/en/liggins/our-research/research-themes/healthy-mothers-healthy-babies/_jcr_content/par/linkspagetemplategri_733279118/par1/subflexicomponentlin/image.img.480.low.jpg/1705351224657.jpg)
Some of our studies are complete, others are in follow-up, some are recruiting, and there are always more being planned.
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Working to improve health outcomes for women, mothers and babies affected by major complications of the reproductive tract and pregnancy.
What we investigate![Distinguished Professor Dame Jane Harding meeting with Liggins Institute staff](/content/auckland/en/liggins/our-research/research-themes/healthy-mothers-healthy-babies/_jcr_content/par/linkspagetemplategri_35058363/par2/subflexicomponentlin/image.img.480.low.jpg/1705351256365.jpg)
Research synthesis is about undertaking high quality systematic reviews of existing literature to review methodology and identify priority research questions.
How it works