Prof. Trevor Duke

Director

Director of the Centre for International Child Health at University of Melbourne and RCH and Deputy Director of the ICU and Clinical Director of the general ICU at RCH.  Adjunct Professor of Child Health in the School of Medicine at the University of Papua New Guinea, member of the PNG National Department of Health Child Health Advisory Committee, and previously provincial paediatrician in Goroka.  Heads the WHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Training in Child and Neonatal Health, and co-principle of AusAID Knowledge Hub for Womens and Children's Health.  Involved in designing and implementing the WHO / UNICEF Child Survival Strategy, and the International Child Health Review Collaboration (www.ichrc.org).  Author and editor of the WHO Pocketbook of Hospital Care for Children.  Annually compiles the publication Randomised trials in child health in developing countries.  Particular interests include the epidemiology and case management of acute respiratory infections, improving the quality of paediatric care in district and provincial hospitals, oxygen and hypoxaemia, disease surveillance and auditing, neonatal illness, meningitis, and childhood tuberculosis. 

A. Prof. Steve Graham

Paediatrician with 20 years of experience in international child health including African and Asia-Pacific regions. Particular interests include pneumonia and tuberculosis as well as invasive bacterial disease especially invasive salmonellosis in tropical Africa. PhD was awarded from the University of Amsterdam on “Impact of HIV on respiratory disease in Malawian children” and was awarded Leverhulme Medal for distinguished contribution to tropical medicine by Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK (2007). He works closely with WHO and national disease control programmes in development of management guidelines for child TB, pneumonia and HIV-related illness, and is a co-author of the WHO Pocketbook. Working to improve implementation of child TB management in resource-limited setting, Steve has developed collaborative links in SE Asian-Pacific region and works part-time for the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease. He is a founding member and current chair of the Child TB subgroup of WHO Stop TB Partnership.

Prof. Kim Mulholland

A. Prof. Fiona Russell

Associate Professor Fiona is a paediatrician. She has research interest in evidence based policy decision making for child health interventions in low income countries. In particular she is interested in vaccination and completed her PhD evaluating alternative schedules of pneumococcal vaccine in infants in Fiji funded by NIH and NHMRC.

She has postgraduate qualifications in public health and epidemiology. She has undertaken consultancies for WHO, UNICEF, and AusAID in the Asia-Pacific region, and Africa on the disease burden of various vaccine preventable diseases, and has written national child health policies and strategies to accelerate MDG 4/5 progress. She has been awarded the Young Investigator Award, Royal Australasian College of Physicians in 2001 and the Early in Career Researcher, Public Health Association of Australia, in 2008. Currently she is based in Hanoi at the Research Institute for Child Health and has ongoing research in Fiji, Vietnam, and Ethiopia in a range of child health issues.

Dr Andrew Steer

Dr Steer is a paediatrician and paediatric infectious diseases physician at the Royal Children’s Hospital. He is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for International Child Health, and in 2011 was awarded a NHMRC/NHF post-doctoral fellowship. Between 2005-2007, he undertook a US NIH funded project investigating the epidemiology of group A streptococcal disease and rheumatic heart disease in Fiji, for which he was awarded a PhD from the University of Melbourne in 2009, and for which he received a 2010 Dean’s Award for Excellence in a PhD Thesis and 2011 Victorian Premier’s Award . His interests centre on the control of group A streptococcal disease in developing countries, with specific interests in public health efforts at controlling rheumatic heart disease, impetigo and scabies; understanding the pathogenesis of acute rheumatic fever; and developing a global group A streptococcal vaccine.

Sam Colquhoun

Samantha Colquhoun is a public health researcher with a background in paediatric and neonatal intensive care, vaccine clinical trials, programme management and epidemiology research. Since February 2005 Samantha has been the Programme Coordinator for the World Heart Federation Pacific Rheumatic Heart Disease Control Programme, in which she has assisted local teams with building local capacity for prevention and control of RHD in Fiji, Tuvalu, Solomon Islands, Kiribati, Tonga and Nauru. Samantha is the Research Manager of the Fiji GrASP project which is undertaking Group A Streptococcal epidemiology research in Fiji. She is currently undertaking a PhD examining the epidemiology and control of RHD in developing countries. Samantha is currently working on a collaborative project with paediaticians and nurses in the Solomon Islands and Fiji for post- graduate child health nurse education.

Dr Karen Kiang

Karn is paediatrician, who has worked in the US with the CDC,  Thailand, China, Tanzania and Peru.  Karen is currently working on the implementation of the WHO Pocketbook into countries in Latin America.  Interests include ecohealth and the public health impact of climate change on children in under-resourced areas.

Dr Julian Kelly

Dr Adam Jenney

Adam Jenney is an infectious diseases physician currently investigating the burden of Rotavirus infection in the Fiji and the impact of Staphylococcus aureus resistance both in Australia and the region.

Dr Sophie La Vincente

Sophie is an epidemiologist and research fellow engaged in health systems research.  She initially joined CICH in 2006 while undertaking a Field Epidemiology Training Program (Master of Applied Epidemiology, ANU). Sophie’s current work focuses on approaches to increasing access to, and quality of, maternal and child health services in low and middle income countries. Sophie works on a number of activities in the Asia region, with a particular focus on the Philippines where she was based during 2010. Key areas of interest include urban health, operational research, and the link between infectious diseases and poverty.

Michael Nunan

Michael is a Clinical Pharmacist, with a Masters in Public Health; he has formerly worked as the Chief Pharmacist for the Ministry of Health in the Solomon Islands (2 years) and is currently involved in research into access to Essential Medicines.

Dr Rami Subhi

Rami is a research assistant and medical intern.  He has been involved in updating the Pocket Book of Hospital Care for Children, developing WHO recommendations for the management of childhoold pneumonia, diarrhoeal diseases and newborn conditions, and supporting child health work in the Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea.

Dr Kate Milner

Dr Sarah McNabb

Dr Amy Gray

Dr Catherine Satzke

Dr Anne Balloch

Dr Eileen Dunne

Dr Paul Licciardi

Kathryn Bright

Amy Auge

Caitlyn Henry

Jackie Williams

Ciara Baker

Eleanor Neal