QLD Family Cohort

QLD Family Cohort The vision of the QLD Family Cohort study is to understand the mix of factors that influence healthy

The QFC Study is a visionary program of research that will undertake a view of the current health and wellbeing of families across Queensland to understand parental health, ageing and its impact on pregnancy outcomes. Its vision is to determine how a baby’s health and exposures in early life impacts the risk of disease development or being health and well later on in life. Families will begin their journey in the study during the antenatal period of their pregnancy and continue for many years sharing their life experiences of health, wellbeing, environmental exposures, social determinants of health, education and health-related events. These families will work alongside a consortium of researchers and health services who are all working to address disease at its roots and arm health professionals and policy makers with the evidence they need to improve health, wellbeing and other life outcomes in future generations. The diversity of our Queensland population is highly valued—as are each individual participants’ needs—which enables the QFC to recruit participant families who are; culturally and linguistically diverse, from the LGBTIQA+ communities, living in metropolitan, rural and remote communities, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders and those who may have additional health needs.

🎉 We have winners! Congratulations to the winners of our latest $200 grocery voucher draw. Check your inbox, we have con...
08/10/2026

🎉 We have winners! Congratulations to the winners of our latest $200 grocery voucher draw. Check your inbox, we have contacted you!

This quarter, QFC families achieved some incredible milestones:
✨ 485+ surveys completed
👶 68 births reported
🎂 Another family reached their 3-year survey milestone

Thank you for being part of the Queensland Family Cohort Study. Your participation is helping improve the health and wellbeing of Queensland families for generations to come.

🤰 12-24 weeks pregnant and living in Queensland? Join the study today for your chance to win a future prize draw 👉 qldfamilycohort.org

Queensland Family Cohort Study at Redland Hospital! ✨🎉We are excited to announce our newest study site! A big thank you ...
25/09/2026

Queensland Family Cohort Study at Redland Hospital! ✨🎉

We are excited to announce our newest study site! A big thank you to the hospital team for supporting the study and helping us reach more families across our beautiful state.

If you're 12–24 weeks pregnant and living in Redland City, keep an eye out for more information about our study during your hospital visits.

Together, we're helping shape the future health of Queensland families. 💙

Learn more and join today 👉 qldfamilycohort.org

The Queensland Wide Study is currently recruiting anyone 12 - 24 weeks pregnant and living in Queensland.

Happy World Breastfeeding Week 🤱💜In 2026, the theme is Breastfeeding for a sustainable start in life: Strengthen what wo...
03/08/2026

Happy World Breastfeeding Week 🤱💜

In 2026, the theme is Breastfeeding for a sustainable start in life: Strengthen what works - a reminder that when communities support breastfeeding, families and future generations benefit.

📢 New PublicationThe Indigenous Queensland Family Cohort (I-QFC) study provides valuable insights into culturally ground...
28/07/2026

📢 New Publication

The Indigenous Queensland Family Cohort (I-QFC) study provides valuable insights into culturally grounded, family-centred research, with the potential to strengthen health and wellbeing across generations.

These findings are now helping to inform the development of a future co-designed birth cohort study for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families in Queensland 💜

🔗 Read the publication:https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/bmjopen/16/7/e117233.full.pdf

🎉 We're excited to announce that Toowoomba Hospital is our newest QFC study site!A big thank you to the team for suppor...
22/07/2026

🎉 We're excited to announce that Toowoomba Hospital is our newest QFC study site!

A big thank you to the team for supporting the study and helping us reach more families across our beautiful state.

If you're 12–24 weeks pregnant and living in Toowoomba, keep an eye out for more information about our study during your hospital visits.

Together, we're helping shape the future health of Queensland families. 💙

Learn more and join today 👉 qldfamilycohort.org

👶🏽 Are you trying to conceive, pregnant, or have you had a baby in the past 6 months?📢 Help support one of our PhD resea...
17/07/2026

👶🏽 Are you trying to conceive, pregnant, or have you had a baby in the past 6 months?

📢 Help support one of our PhD research projects exploring preconception and pregnancy supplement use and advice.

If you're 18+ and living in Australia, we'd love to hear from you. Complete the below anonymous online survey and go in the draw to win a $50 Coles/Myer voucher.

🔗 Take the survey here: uniofsunshinecoast.syd1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_73TscDnkhINMYm2

📖 Learn more about the study: qldfamilycohort.org/supplement-use-study

Thank you for supporting this important research 💙

🎉 Congratulations to the winners of our latest $200 grocery voucher draw! We've reached out, check your inbox.This quart...
16/07/2026

🎉 Congratulations to the winners of our latest $200 grocery voucher draw! We've reached out, check your inbox.

This quarter we had more than 300 surveys completed, 16 births reported, and some participants reaching their 3-year surveys 😱

Thank you to all our QFC families for your ongoing support. Your contribution is helping us shape the future health of Queensland.

12–24 weeks pregnant and living in Queensland? You could be our next winner! Join the study today 👉 qldfamilycohort.org

Reminder! 📢 Have a QFC survey waiting in your inbox?There’s still time! Submit it by 30 June and you could win a $200 gr...
25/06/2026

Reminder! 📢 Have a QFC survey waiting in your inbox?
There’s still time! Submit it by 30 June and you could win a $200 grocery voucher 🛒Don’t miss out! ⏳
Thanks for helping us shape the future health of Queenslanders 💜

Did you catch Prof Vicki Clifton, QFC Director, and Jackie, QFC project manager, talk about the team's latest research?...
22/05/2026

Did you catch Prof Vicki Clifton, QFC Director, and Jackie, QFC project manager, talk about the team's latest research?

Australia is the world’s food allergy capital, with around one in 10 children living with potentially harmful allergies.

Now, groundbreaking Mater research has discovered that the placenta may hold the key to identifying children at risk of developing allergies — years earlier than ever before.

The study, led by Professor Vicki Clifton from Mater Research, analysed placentae from 366 Australian mothers and followed their children’s allergy outcomes up to age seven.

“Instead of being alerted by a life-threatening event such as anaphylaxis, the study has shown that we can identify children at risk at a much ea
rlier and safer stage,” Prof Clifton said.

Discover how this research could change the future of allergy prevention for families 👉 https://www.qldfamilycohort.org/news-1/placentas-can-reveal-childhood-food-allergies-at-birth

To all of our QFC mothers and mothers-to-be, we wish you a wonderful Mother’s Day. Thank you for sharing your time, expe...
09/05/2026

To all of our QFC mothers and mothers-to-be, we wish you a wonderful Mother’s Day. Thank you for sharing your time, experiences, and journey with us—we truly appreciate you 🌸

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