Helen Jenny Leonard Downs HM JA MBChB MPH BApplSci (physio) MSc PhD Principal Research Fellow Program Head, Development and Disability +61 419 956 946 08 6319 1763 helen.leonard@telethonkids.org.au Jenny.Downs@telethonkids.org.au Principal Research ...

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Fiona Carrington Rebecca Stanley Shepherd Glauert FJ CCJ RA FAA FASSA MSc MD FFPHM FAFPHM FRACP FRANZCOG HonDSc HonDUniv HonFRACGP HonMD HonFRCPCH HonLLB (honoris causa) PhD BPsych (Hons) PhD Patron Honorary Research Associate Honorary Research ...

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Brad Carrington Raewyn Carol Melissa Farrant Shepherd Mutch Michie O'Donnell Photos BM CCJ RM C M BSc (Hons), PhD PhD MBChB., DipRACOG., Cert.HPRT, FRACP., PhD BPsych (Hons), MPsych, GradDip Ed, PhD Co-Head, Aboriginal Health and Wellbeing Honorary ...

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Glioblastoma in adults, and medulloblastoma and pineoblastoma that mainly affect children, are aggressive brain tumors. ...

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• 2018
• March 2018

Following a relative absence in winter 2020, a large resurgence of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) detections occurred during the 2020/2021 summer in Western Australia. This seasonal shift was linked to SARS-CoV-2 public health measures. We examine the epidemiology and RSV testing of respiratory-coded admissions, and compare clinical phenotype of RSV-positive admissions between 2019 and 2020. ...

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• 2022
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This paper examines the use of a new antibiotic to treat diarrhoea cause by Cryptosporidium infection in Australian Indigenous children. ...

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• 2014
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From 1990 to 2005, there was an increase in prevalence of parents with a prior history of mental health disorders in WA. ...

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• 2013
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The aim of this study was to assess the relationship between dust levels and health in Indigenous children in Western Australia ...

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• 2019
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We overview the changing epidemiology of Group A Streptococcus infections and the genetic alterations that accompany the emergence of Group A Streptococcus strains ...

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• 2019
• January 2019

In the 1990s pneumonia hospitalisation rates in Western Australia (WA) were 13 times higher in Indigenous children than in non-Indigenous children... ...

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• 2012
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Desiree Susan Professor Catherine Jane Silva Prescott Elliott Valentine DS SL CE JV MBBS, FRACP, MPH, PhD MBBS BMedSci PhD FRACP PhD, BSc (OT) MBBs MRCP ( Edin ) FRACP FARM PhD Co-Head, The ORIGINS Project Honorary Research Fellow Director, ...

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Little attention has been given to the health status and lifestyle behaviours of expectant fathers. This study aimed to examine health-related variables in a cohort of expectant fathers to identify potential focus areas for interventions designed to optimise health and wellbeing outcomes in this group. ...

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• 2022
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