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.
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Home\GenView newsletter Home GenView newsletter GenView newsletter Three times a year, we’ll share the latest news from GenV in the GenView community newsletter. With more than 120,000* participants already part of GenV, there’s lots happening. Don’t miss hearing about it first! Subscribe to GenView here. Previous editions Demonstrating our growing value GenView edition #11 | October 2024 GenV’s impact continues to expand, demonstrating its growing value to policymakers, researchers and the community. Recent milestones illustrate GenV’s ability to inform health, wellbeing and social policy. Read more In our Establishment phase GenView edition #10 | July 2024 Acceleration has taken over from Establishment! In our Establishment phase, the GenV team was in all 58 maternity hospitals across Victoria, aiming to offer participation to every newborn and their parents. Now, we’re accelerating GenV’s value by focusing on data linkage, governance, our Intervention Hub and developing the platform and services needed by future users. Read more A busy and exciting start to 2024 GenView edition #9 | April 2024 It’s been a busy start to 2024. We’re so proud that the Victorian Government and philanthropists have together invested about $80million to establish GenV. We’re now looking to our accelerator phase, where we’ll build out the components that GenV needs for impact at scale. Read more 2023 comes to a close with over 115,000 GenV particpants GenView edition #8 | December 2023 As 2023 draws to a close, we reflect on achievements only possible with the dedication of GenV’s team and the support of our collaborators and supporters. Data linkage – a key building block of GenV – is critical to this. Linking to existing information already held by State and Commonwealth Governments will help researchers, policymakers and service providers… Read more Over 95,000 people have joined - babies, parents, guardians and kin - from all over Victoria. GenView edition #7 | Autumn 2023 With the 2-year birth window closing in October, recruiting our cohort and collecting biosamples is our priority. Over 95,000 people have joined – babies, parents, guardians and kin – from all over Victoria. Already the largest, most diverse, and most representative birth and parent cohort in Australia, we expect GenV to continue growing over coming years. Read more Why is it important for GenV to represent Victoria’s population? GenView edition #6 | December 2022 GenV is proud to reflect Victoria’s diversity. Our families are representative of metropolitan, regional and rural communities; families from low income and education groups, and of differing abilities; those who are culturally, ethnically, and linguistically diverse; and First Nations families. Read more GenV celebrates one year anniversary with significant recruitment milestone GenView edition #5 | September 2022 GenV, one of the world’s largest-ever birth and parent cohort studies, is celebrating its one-year anniversary of being available to all families having a baby in Victoria. So far, more than 60,000 babies, mothers and fathers have joined the study, which is recruiting in every birthing hospital across the state over a 2 year period. Read more New survey tool helps families to participate in GenV GenView edition #4 | July 2022 We know parents’ time is valuable, so we collaborated with parents, researchers and tech experts to develop GenV and Me — a purpose-built App that makes it easy for families to complete surveys, and let us know how they and their child are doing. This information will help give researchers a more complete picture of the health and wellbeing of a whole generation of families. Read more It’s Cultural Diversity Week and a great time to recognise the benefits of diversity in research GenView edition #3 | March 2022 At GenV we want to learn how ethnicity, culture and language impact on children’s health and wellbeing. Our goal is to invite every Victorian parent with a newborn to join GenV over a two-year period — no matter where they live, who they are or what language they speak. GenV now has more than 2,900 participants who speak a main language other than English at home. Read more How will GenV transform the way doctors provide care? GenView edition #2 | December 2021 Professor Sarath Ranganathan is the Director of Respiratory Medicine at the Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne. Watch Sarath as he shares his excitement for GenV and explains in simple terms how our data could lead to new ways to treat, predict and prevent childhood conditions like asthma, food allergies, obesity and mental illness. Read more Building a complete picture GenView edition #1 | September 2021 GenV will provide researchers with a more complete picture about the health and wellbeing of a whole generation. Watch a short video about how this information could lead to breakthroughs to some of the most complex health problems faced by families. Read more