GenV (Generation Victoria)
GenV is a research initiative designed to advance health and wellbeing in smarter and faster ways, designed to answer multiple questions such as preterm birth, mental illness, obesity, learning, allergies and more.
Together we can transform health and wellbeing.
Watch as Alice asks Professor Margie Danchin about GenV and why it's important to study the lives of parents and their babies.
Join over 100,000 Victorians in Australia’s largest study of children and parents and be a part of improving the quality of life for all children and parents.
Watch as Alice asks Professor Margie Danchin about GenV and why it's important to study the lives of parents and their babies.
Join over 100,000 Victorians in Australia’s largest study of children and parents and be a part of improving the quality...
Watch as Alice asks Professor Margie Danchin about GenV and why it's important to study the lives of parents and their babies.
Join over 100,000 Victorians in Australia’s largest study of children and parents and be a part of improving the quality of life for all children and parents.
Why GenV is significant to research
GenV’s primary objective is to create large, parallel whole-of-state birth and parent cohorts for discovery and interventional research.
It will enable researchers to explore the issues affecting Victoria’s children and their families with greater speed and precision than we can today, allowing them to explore the critical links between environmental exposures, genome (genetics), physical characteristics and later outcomes across the life course.
GenV will generate translatable evidence — including novel approaches to prediction, prevention, treatments, and services — to improve future wellbeing and reduce the future disease burden of all children and the adults they become.
GenV’s focus areas
We aim to build a communal resource with and for researchers, practitioners, policy and service delivery people now and into the future.
Our six key focus areas are:
- Mental Health and wellbeing
- Obesity and diabetes
- Allergy, immunity and infection
- Development and learning
- Organ health
- Healthy environments
Visit our website for more information on the GenV framework, focus areas and how we are building GenV's impact through research.
We aim to build a communal resource with and for researchers, practitioners, policy and service delivery people now and into the future.
Our six key focus areas are:
- Mental Health and wellbeing
- Obesity and diabetes
- Allergy, immunity and...
We aim to build a communal resource with and for researchers, practitioners, policy and service delivery people now and into the future.
Our six key focus areas are:
- Mental Health and wellbeing
- Obesity and diabetes
- Allergy, immunity and infection
- Development and learning
- Organ health
- Healthy environments
Visit our website for more information on the GenV framework, focus areas and how we are building GenV's impact through research.
Join GenV
Together GenV can transform health and wellbeing. Join over 100,000 Victorian children and parents making this happen. You can join GenV if:
- Your baby was born between 4 October 2021 and 3 October 2023,
- At least a parent and baby join, and
- You live in Victoria.
Visit our Contact page and join GenV.
GenV research team
- Scientific Director: Professor Melissa Wake
- Deputy Director, Equity & Translation: Professor Sharon Goldfeld
- Deputy Director, Biosciences: Professor Richard Saffery
Careers and volunteers
- Visit GenV Student and Volunteer Program for more information on current opportunities and how to apply.
- For information on the current opportunities, please visit the GenV careers page.
Supporters and partners
GenV brings together researchers, service providers, policy-makers and practitioners, to accelerate solutions for the health and wellbeing of Victoria’s children and the adults they will become.
- Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI)
- The Royal Children’s Hospital (RCH)
- The University of Melbourne
- Paul Ramsay Foundation (PRF)
- Victorian Government - Department of Health (DH) and Department of Families, Fairness and Housing (DFFH)
- Royal Children’s Hospital Foundation
Contact GenV
If you would like to contact GenV, please email us at show email address .