The Birth to Twenty study (“Mandela’s Children”) is following a cohort of South African children born in 1990 from birth to age 20. These children are the first cohort born into a democratic South Africa. According to the Birth to Twenty Web site, the study is “the largest and longest running study of child and adolescent health and development in Africa.”

An article in the International Journal of Epidemiology describes the study and provides a profile of the Birth to Twenty cohort. The article is available online via Open Access.

Citation: Linda Richter, Shane Norris, John Pettifor, Derek Yach, and Noel Cameron (2007). Cohort profile: Mandela’s children: The 1990 birth to twenty study in South Africa. International Journal of Epidemiology 36(3): 504-511.