Child Health Research Centre

The University of Queensland

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Burns on back of child

The Child Health Research Centre brings together researchers from a range of specialist areas to tackle some of the big issues in child health.

With specialists in infectious diseases, nutrition and growth, burns, respiratory illness, environmental health, allied health, biostatistics, epidemiology and more, we are working in partnership with doctors, nurses, health specialists and parents to find new and better methods for promoting child health and for treating common childhood illnesses and injuries.

Our Centre has many research groups dedicated to understanding more about the health of children. In addition to understanding the factors that contribute to health, researchers are also working to improve the ability to diagnose and detect disease and disability as early as possible.

Website
https://child-health-research.centre.uq.edu.au
Organisation type
  • University Research Centre
Number of research staff
20-100 research staff
Address
Level 6, Centre for Children’s Health Research, 62 Graham Street, South Brisbane QLD 4101

Strengths and capabilities

  • Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder research collaboration
  • Cerebral palsy research and rehabilitation
  • Children's Health and Environment Program
  • Child and Youth Mental Health Research Group
  • Acquired brain injury rehabilitation
  • Applied public health
  • Childhood allergy and epidemiology
  • Child Intensive Care Research program
  • Children's musculoskeletal endochrine and diabetes research

Facilities and major equipment

  • Queensland Children's Tumour Bank
  • Queensland Children's Motion Analysis Service
  • Physical Containment Level 2 (PC2) Laboratory
  • Clinical Research Floor
  • DEXA body composition scans

Lead researchers

Our world renowned leading researchers include:

  • Professor Karen Barlow: Leader in developing Australia and New Zealand's first concussion guidelines.
  • Professor James Scott: Psychiatrist and leading health expert in youth mental health
  • Professor Kristen Gibbons : leads the largest research project in sepsis.
  • Professor Roslyn Boyd: expert in research and rehabilitation in cerebral palsy.
  • Professor Paul Robinson: expert in asthma management
  • Associate Professor Jennifer Koplin: expert in allergies

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