Wednesday, 28 July 2021, 12:20 pm A study to measure the mental health of young people who grow up in areas with unhealthy environmental features, such as gaming venues, takeaway shops and liquor outlets, is one of 12 projects to get the greenlight through a new $4M collaboration to fund child health research. A Better Start, one of the country’s 11 National Science Challenges, and Cure Kids, New Zealand’s largest national child health research charity, are co-funding the new projects, which are all aimed at making a real-world difference for tamariki and their whānau. The research projects are centred on three key research areas