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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… maternal health and wellbeing and child health and development.…
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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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
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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Adjunct Professor
Faculty of Health and Behavioural SciencesMatched phrases in profile:
Queensland Child and Youth Clinical Network – influencing children’s health policy through collaboration… BDHP - Maternal and Child Health Theme… Dr Robyn Littlewood – Chief Executive, Health and Wellbeing Queensland… accessing outpatient Child and Youth Mental Health Services (CYMHS), and to explore whether outcomes…
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- robyn.littlewood@uq.edu.au
Dr Robyn Littlewood – Chief Executive, Health and Wellbeing Queensland
As leader of the state’s first dedicated prevention agency, Dr Littlewood is a passionate advocate for health promotion in Queensland.
Dr Littlewood believes every Queenslander has the right to better health, with expertise in …
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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 Center for Health Services Research 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 pr …
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Conjoint Chair in Paediatric Rehabi
Child Health Research CentreFaculty of MedicineMatched phrases in profile:
Health care impact of implementing a clinical pathway for acute care of pediatric concussion: a stepped wedge, cluster randomised trial… Health service utilization after traumatic brain injury in children: what do they need and how can we help?… Health care utilization after childhood acquired brain injury in Queensland: A cost-of-illness study… both nationally and internationally. I moved to the Child Health Research Centre at the University of… Spectrum Quotient-10 Items Child version and Child Health Utility-9D).Examine the ability of early…
Medical and Health Sciences; Neurosciences; Paediatrics and Reproductive Medicine; Public Health and Health Services; Communications Technologies; Paediatrics; Community Child Health; Communications Technologies not elsewhere classified; Technology;- Email:
- k.barlow@uq.edu.au
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- +61 7 3069 7486
I am an academic paediatric neurologist, clinical researcher, and specialist in acquired brain injury in children and adolescence. I studied at the University of Edinburgh and British Columbia before taking up my first academic position at the University of Calgary in 2002. Here I developed and dire …
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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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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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Research Fellow
School of Public HealthFaculty of MedicineMatched phrases in profile:
Prenatal predictors of postnatal child health and development, including prenatal stress… Testing competing mediators of the association between pre-conception maternal depression and child health-related quality of life: the MatCH study… Maternal predictors of child health and development… and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in child siblings. Data were from 1772 participants in…
Medical and Health Sciences; Paediatrics and Reproductive Medicine; Public Health and Health Services; Psychology and Cognitive Sciences; Psychology; Foetal Development and Medicine; Epidemiology; Mental Health;- Email:
- katrina.moss@uq.edu.au
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- +61 7 336 55405
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Professorial Research Fellow
School of Human Movement and Nutrition SciencesFaculty of Health and Behavioural SciencesMatched phrases in profile:
A comparison and validation of child versus parent reporting of children's energy intake using food… A randomised controlled trial to assess the impact of Baby-EATS, a scalable digital health… This is a project linked to a Department of Health funded project which will deliver a new… child health… nutrition which creates new knowledge and applies this knowledge to public health prevention strategies… unsuccessful. © 2010 The Authors. Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health © 2010 Paediatrics and Child…
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- h.truby@uq.edu.au
My research career has been informed by my clinical practice in nutrition science and dietetics. I trained as a paediatric dietitian at the Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne and completed my PhD at the University of Melbourne gaining knowlege and skills in nutrition science methodogies includin …
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Measurement Instruments: I developed and tested the Children’s Body Image Scale, which met the criteria as an outcome measure for the evaluation of obesity treatments by the UK National Institute for Health Research in 2013. (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1348/01446650216 …
