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Melbourne Children’s Global Health Annual Symposium – Save The Date!

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  Save the date! Melbourne Children’s Global Health Annual Symposium 18th September 2019 Please join us at the Royal Children’s Hospital for a day of dynamic and engaging discussions on key areas of interest in global child and adolescent health, with presentations from experts on our campus and beyond. Program and further information to follow.

Melbourne Children’s Global Health Forum

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The June Melbourne Children’s Global Health Forum will be held on Thursday the 20th at 12.30pm in the Vernon Collins Lecture Theater, HELP Precinct, Level 1 Royal Children’s Hospital. Light lunch provided in the HELP Lounge from 12.15pm. All are welcome to hear an update on global health activities on the Children’s Hospital campus. This … Continued

Fiona Russell receives prestigious Frank Fenner Award for Advanced Research in Infectious Diseases

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On behalf of Melbourne Children’s Global Health we would like to extend our warm congratulations to Professor Fiona Russell, who on Friday received the prestigious Frank Fenner Award for Advanced Research in Infectious Diseases, from the Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases . This award recognises the many achievements over Fiona’s career in global health, and … Continued

Medical education in Lao People’s Democratic Republic: The challenges students face in accessing learning resources

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Medical Education in Lao PDR; the challenges students face in accessing learning resources A publication released this week in The Asia Pacific Scholar by Ketsomsouk Bouphavanh, Sourideth Sengchanh, Vannyda Namvongsa from the University of Health Sciences in Lao People’s Democratic Republic, and Annie Kilpatrick (Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne) and Amy Gray (Melbourne Children’s Global Health).

Melbourne researcher looks at how to support the world’s preschoolers

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Mobile crèches in India, nutrition lessons for parents in Colombia, and mental health support for families in the Congo are just a few of the projects a Melbourne researcher has studied, while looking at how to deliver early child development programs to the world’s preschoolers. Paediatrician Kate Milner from the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute is … Continued

Trial succeeds at drastically reducing two highly infectious skin diseases

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Australian, Solomon Islands and British researchers have succeeded in simultaneously treating two debilitating skin diseases – scabies and impetigo – which infect hundreds of millions of people, mostly in tropical countries. The study, published 5th of April by the The Lancet Infectious Diseases, took place in Choiseul Province of the Solomon Islands and involved offering … Continued