Paediatrics and Child Health

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Paediatrics and Child Health promotes research in health and illness in childhood.

The Division of Paediatrics and Child Health has a presence in the two Children’s Hospitals in Brisbane, The Royal Children’s and the Mater Children’s Hospitals, and in regional hospitals in Toowoomba, Bundaberg, Rockhampton, Redlands, Ipswich, Hervey Bay, Redcliffe, Caboolture, and Brunei.

The Division works closely with the Children’s Nutrition Centre at the Royal Children’s Hospital and the longitudinal study of children at the Mater Hospitals.

Members of Paediatrics and Child Health are actively involved in research in the following areas:

• Gastroenterology
  
• Nutrition and growth
  
• Fetal surgery
  
• Treatment and prevention of burn injury
  
• Medical ethics
  
• Medical history
  
• Injury and prevention of injury
  
• Ophthalmology and infectious diseases through the Clinical Virology Research Centre

• Delivery of clinical services to children and families
  
• Primary health care
  
• Prevention of illness and injury
  
• Promotion of children’s rights
  
• Promotion of a sound legal and ethical base for services to children and families
  
• Protection of children from injury and abuse
  
• Studies of nutrition in childhood
  
• Adolescent health
  
• Burns treatment and prevention

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