Centre for International Child Health

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  Research Group Leader
  Professor Trevor Duke

  trevor.duke@rch.org.au

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  +61 3 9345 4968

Research Overview

Under the campus partnership, our research is embedded in MCRI. Full research profile may be found here:

• Group A Streptococcal Research
• Pneumococcal Research
• International Child Health

The Centre for International Child Health (CICH) was established in 2001 within the University of Melbourne's Department of Paediatrics and the Royal Children's Hospital. CICH is a World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Research & Training in Child & Neonatal Health, and works closely with WHO, and child health institutions especially in Asia and the Pacific Region.

CICH is involved in basic, field and clinical research, epidemiology, child health policy, training and education. The fields of research encompass a wide range of conditions affecting children, including vaccine-preventable diseases, pneumonia, tuberculosis, group A streptococcus and related diseases such as scabies, impetigo and rheumatic heart disease. CICH works on strengthening health systems, improving the quality of care for children and newborns, health education, and improving equity. CICH has supported WHO in the development and implementation of Hospital Care for Children: a set of guidelines and a program of quality improvement designed for the health care of children at first- referral level health facilities, as well as other clinical and public health evidence-based guidelines.

CICH researchers provide advice, leadership, training and advocacy as members of various international and national health organisations, committees, and advisory bodies. CICH works closely with our affiliated institutions: the University of Melbourne, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute and the Royal Children’s Hospital.

Staff

• Professor Trevor Duke, Director
• Professor Steve Graham, Principal Research Fellow
• Associate Professor Fiona Russell, Principal Research Fellow
• Associate Professor Andrew Steer, Principal Research Fellow
• Dr Samantha Colquhoun, Senior Research Fellow and Senior Health Systems Strengthening Advisor
• Dr Amy Gray, Lecturer
• Dr Shidan Tosif, PhD Candidate, Research Fellow
• Dr Hamish Graham, PhD Candidate, Research Fellow
• Dr Daniel Engelman, PhD Candidate
• Eleanor Neal, PhD Candidate and Research Assistant
• Ciara Baker, Research Assistant
• Dr Melinda Morpeth, Laos Clinical Education Fellow
• Doctor Kate Milner, Paediatrician, PhD Candidate
• Dr Myra Hardy, International Child Health Fellow, PhD Candidate
• Dr Rami Subhi, Paediatrician

Collaborators

• World Health Organisation
• Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI)
• Kirby Institute
• University of New South Wales (UNSW)
• Papua New Guinea Paediatric Society
• Port Moresby General Hospital
• Fiji Ministry of Health
• Faculty of Postgraduate Studies, University of Health Sciences, Lao PDR
• EDW, University of Health Sciences, Lao PDR
• Lao PDR Ministry of Health
• Laos Oxford Mahosot Wellcome Trust Research Unit (LOMWTRU)
• Gadja Mada University
• London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM)

Funding

Projects within the Centre for International Child Health are supported by a range of funding organisations, such as:

• National Health and Medical Research Council
• World Health Organisation
• RE Ross Trust
• UNICEF
• Murdoch Children's Research Institute
• Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
• GAVI Alliance
• PATH
• Save the Children UK
• Planet Wheeler Foundation
• New Zealand Aid/Cure Kids,
• Shepherd Foundation
• Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation