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Research Fellow (Environmental Scie
Child Health Research CentreFaculty of MedicineMatched phrases in profile:
disrupting chemicals and environmentally persistent free radicals— and the health of children.… Climate impacts on air quality and child health and wellbeing: implications for Oceania… Bushfire smoke events and health outcomes… Providing evidence to guide public health messages during bushfire smoke events… activities with a range of child health outcomes such as physical health, neurodevelopment, and mental… Environmental exposures and child health… health. Her current research explores the following: Environmentally persistent free… child health and wellbeing, through both direct and indirect effects. Climate change has multiple…
Medical and Health Sciences; Public Health and Health Services; Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety; Epidemiology;- Email:
- d.vilcins@uq.edu.au
Dwan is an environmental epidemiologist, with a particular interest in children's environmental health. Her current research explores the following:
- Environmentally persistent free radicals, air pollution, and children's lung outcomes
- Maternal exposure to green space, ambient temperature and air p …
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NHMRC Leadership Fellow
Child Health Research CentreFaculty of MedicineMatched phrases in profile:
, cystic fibrosis and children¿s environmental health. In the next 5 years I will focus on improving… Children’s environmental health in south and southeast Asia: networking for better child health outcomes… Children's Environmental Health Program (CHEP) Projects… Addressing Needs for High Nucleic Acid Quantification Accuracy and Precision in Child Health Research… Infant Longitudinal Development (CHILD) Study, Canada; the Infant Lung Health Study, Paarl, South Africa… 6-week-old infants in a South African birth cohort (Drakenstein Child Health Study). LRTI during the…
Environmental Sciences; Medical and Health Sciences; Immunology; Paediatrics and Reproductive Medicine; Other Environmental Sciences; Cardiovascular Medicine and Haematology; Clinical Sciences; Respiratory Diseases;- Email:
- p.sly@uq.edu.au
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- +61 7 3069 7383
Professor Peter Sly is the Director, Children's Health and Environment Program. Professor Sly is a NHMRC Leadership Fellow (L3) and an emeritus paediatric respiratory physician with extensive research experience in respiratory physiology, developmental immunology and children's environmental health. …
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NHMRC Leadership Fellow
School of Public HealthFaculty of MedicineMatched phrases in profile:
Reproductive health, from menarche to menopause, is important for women's overall health. The… From child care to elder care: findings from the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health… Health service use in the last two years of life by older Australian women with dementia, heart disease, stroke or lung disease… Professor Gita Mishra’s main research area is life course epidemiology and women’s health. She… health service use. The report also analysed use of formal and informal child care by women with…
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- g.mishra@sph.uq.edu.au
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- +61 7 334 65224
Professor Gita Mishra’s main research area is life course epidemiology and women’s health. She joined the University of Queensland (UQ) in 2010 as the first Professor of Life Course Epidemiology at the School of Public Health. She was subsequently awarded an ARC Future Fellowship (2013-2017), a …
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NHMRC Early Career Fellow
Child Health Research CentreFaculty of MedicineMatched phrases in profile:
countries for young children with cerebral palsy to improve child development and parent mental health outcomes: a systematic review… Partnering with the Indigenous Health workforce to build capacity to provide home support to infants with cerebral palsy… International child health… issues in child health, having worked in Bangladesh for over 2 years both as an AusAid volunteer… health. Despite the growing recognition of the extent and significance of health issues relating to…
Medical and Health Sciences; Paediatrics and Reproductive Medicine; Public Health and Health Services; Clinical Sciences; Rehabilitation and Therapy (excl. Physiotherapy); Paediatrics; Community Child Health;- Email:
- k.benfer@uq.edu.au
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- +61 7 344 36397
Dr Kath Benfer is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow with the Queensland Cerebral Palsy and Rehabilitation Research Centre, The University of Queensland. Her Post-Doctoral work focuses on community-based early detection and intervention for infants at high risk of cerebral palsy in low-resource countri …
My doctoral research was the first to explore prevalence of oropharyngeal dysphagia (OPD) in a population-based cohort of preschool children with cerebral palsy (CP) using direct clinical measures; resulting in publication in Pediatrics (Benfer 2013). My thesis established new synthesis and testing …
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Honorary Associate Professor
Mater Research Institute-UQFaculty of MedicineMatched phrases in profile:
Mental health, neurodevelopmental, and family psychosocial profiles of children born very preterm at risk of an early‐onset anxiety disorder… Global Child Health… disease and global child health. Research studies span two core themes: 1) developing a better… Spectrum Quotient-10 Items Child version and Child Health Utility-9D).Examine the ability of early…
Media Keywords: Congenital Heart Disease; Global Child Health; High-Risk Infant Follow-Up; Neurodevelopment; Preterm Birth;Dr Samudragupta Bora is the Founding Director of the Health Services Research Center at University Hospitals Health System, Associate Professor of Pediatrics at University Hospitals Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital, USA, and Honorary Associate Professor at The University of Queensland. He previo …
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Senior Research Fellow
Child Health Research CentreFaculty of MedicineMatched phrases in profile:
Parenting a child with cerebral palsy can bring additional challenges to the parenting experience… Particularly the use of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to enhance parenting, the parent-child relationship or parental adjustment… Parenting a child with a traumatic brain injury: Experiences of parents and health professionals… School Readiness child outcomes of early neuroprotection/ early neurorehabilitation for infants at high risk of Cerebral Palsy- in the first 2,000 days… Centre within the UQ Child Health Research Centre in the Faculty of Medicine. My research spans three key… phenomena, negatively impacting on postnatal psychological health, and potentially the parent-child…
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- koawhittingham@uq.edu.au
- Ph:
- +61 7 344 36398
I am a senior research fellow at the Queensland Cerebral Palsy and Rehabilitation Research Centre within the UQ Child Health Research Centre in the Faculty of Medicine. My research spans three key areas: (1) parenting, transition to parenting, and parenting intervention, (2) neurodevelopmental disab …
I am the author of Becoming Mum, a self-help book for the transition to motherhood grounded in ACT and the first author of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy the Clinician's Guide for Supporting Parents. I have an interest in developing online interventions using the platform EdX.
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Child Health Research CentreFaculty of MedicineMatched phrases in profile:
Associations between Health Behaviors, Health Self-Efficacy, and Long-Term Outcomes in Survivors of Childhood Cancer: A Cross-Sectional Study… within the Child Health Research Centre (CHRC). Erin possesses a Bachelor of Health Science… between groups in total symptom burden. Secondary outcomes include child health-related quality-of…
Epidemiology; Public health; Behavioural epidemiology; Health Sciences; Epidemiological methods; Social determinants of health; Nutritional epidemiology;- Email:
- e.pitt@uq.edu.au
Dr Erin Pitt is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the area of Childhood Allergy and Epidemiology within the Child Health Research Centre (CHRC). Erin possesses a Bachelor of Health Science (Nutrition); a Master of Public Health (Epidemiology and Research Methods); and a PhD, which was conferred in M …
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Research Fellow
Child Health Research CentreFaculty of MedicineMatched phrases in profile:
I'm interested in how allied health professionals such as physiotherapists, accredited exercise… , health-related quality of life, and behavioural barriers to participation in children with cerebral palsy… Running for Health: community-based adaptive exercise for cardiorespiratory health in young people with moderate to severe cerebral palsy… Rehabilitation Research Centre group within the UQ Child Health Research Centre. Sarah is passionate about… GT3X+) and quality of life (Infant Toddler Quality of Life Questionnaire and Child Health Utility…
Medical and Health Sciences; Paediatrics and Reproductive Medicine; Public Health and Health Services; Clinical Sciences; Physiotherapy; Rehabilitation and Therapy (excl. Physiotherapy); Paediatrics; Health Promotion; Preventive Medicine;- Email:
- s.reedman@uq.edu.au
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- +61 7 344 36411
Dr Sarah Reedman is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Queensland Cerebral Palsy and Rehabilitation Research Centre group within the UQ Child Health Research Centre. Sarah is passionate about enabling participation of young people with disabilities in sports and active recreation. She is interest …
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Child Health Research CentreFaculty of MedicineMatched phrases in profile:
, Disability and Health domains of body functions and activity limitations. Quantitative analyses…
- Email:
- ellen.armstrong@uq.edu.au
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ATH - Senior Lecturer
Child Health Research CentreFaculty of MedicineMatched phrases in profile:
Every child, every day, back to play: the PICUstars protocol - implementation of a nurse-led PICU liberation program… Real time seizure detection in Paediatric Intensive Care patients - Australia's first (RESET child brain Phase 1)… health research, which has the highest number of peer-reviewed studies published in the field of… available evidence and best-practice. It contains a role-play between the parent/child and physician…
- Email:
- m.waak@uq.edu.au
Dr Waak is one of the few paediatric specialists internationally with fellowships in paediatrics, neurology and paediatric intensive care/retrieval medicine. She is an academic intensivist, neurologist, clinical trialist, and specialist in EEG monitoring in children and adolescence.
Since arriving …
