Labor has promised $8m in government for two initiatives at Griffith University’s Logan campus.

The proposed $300m Universities Future Fund would allocate $5m for a research, teaching and health service focused on pregnancy, birth and infants. There would also be a $3m data lab, to provide, “better evidence about what work in tackling disadvantage, collective impact programmes and improving outcomes for children.”

The Griffith announcement follows a $20m promise for the fund to support agriculture research at Western Sydney U.