Tobias Strunk TS MD, PhD, FRACP Head, Neonatal Health tobias.strunk@telethonkids.org.au Head, Neonatal Health Clinical Professor Tobias Strunk is a Consultant Neonatologist with a clinical research focus on infection and inflammation in newborn ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
• Our research
• Past teams
• Neonatal Neurodevelopment, Gut Health and Nutrition

Pat Tom Jonathan Holt Snelling Carapetis AM PG T JR PhD, DSc, FRCPath, FRCPI, FAA BMBS DTMH GDipClinEpid PhD FRACP AM MBBS FRACP FAFPHM PhD FAHMS Emeritus Honorary Researcher Head, Infectious Disease Implementation Research Executive Director; Head, ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
• Our research
• Past teams
• Human Immunology

Jenefer Timo Sarra Blackwell Lassmann Jamieson JM T SE BSc with First Class Honours, PhD, DSc, FMedSci, FAA BSc (Hons) MSc PhD BSc (Hons) MSc PhD Head, Genetics & Health Feilman Fellow; Program Head, Precision Health and Team Lead, Computational ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
• Our research
• Past teams
• Genetics and Health

Hannah Huong Christopher Moore Le Blyth HC HL CC OAM BSc (Hons) GradDipClinEpi PhD MA (Dev. Econ), MA (App. Stats), PhD (Econ) MBBS (Hons) DCH FRACP FRCPA PhD Program Head, Infection and Vaccines Biostatistician & Data Analyst Director, Wesfarmers ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
• Projects

Melissa Helen O'Donnell Leonard M HM BPsych (Hons), MPsych, GradDip Ed, PhD MBChB MPH Honorary Research Associate Principal Research Fellow +61 419 956 946 helen.leonard@telethonkids.org.au Honorary Research Associate Principal Research Fellow ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
• Projects

Andrew Kandice Matt Melissa Whitehouse Watch and listen to Andrew Varcin Cooper Licari AJ KJ MC ML PhD M.Psych (Clinical), PhD BCA Marketing, BSc Statistics and Applied Statistics, PhD PhD Angela Wright Bennett Professor of Autism Research at ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
• Projects

Helen Alix Milroy Woolard HM AW MBBS; FRANZCP; CATCAP BPsych (Hons), PhD Honorary Research Fellow Senior Research Fellow 08 6319 1823 Alix.woolard@telethonkids.org.au Honorary Research Fellow Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Child Mental Health Helen ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
• Projects

Policy interventions to increase physical activity in early childhood education and care (ECEC) services are effective in increasing physical activity among young children. However, a large proportion of ECEC services do not have nor implement a physical activity policy. ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
• Our research
• Reports and Findings
• 2023
• April 2023

The aim of the present study was to compare scale and conditional reliability derived from item response theory analyses among the most commonly used, as well as several newly developed, observation, interview, and parent-report autism instruments. ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
• Our research
• Reports and Findings
• 2023
• April 2023

The vast and growing challenges for human health and all life on Earth require urgent and deep structural changes to the way in which we live. Broken relationships with nature are at the core of both the modern health crisis and the erosion of planetary health. A declining connection to nature has been implicated in the exploitative attitudes that underpin the degradation of both physical and social environments and almost all aspects of personal physical, mental, and spiritual health. ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
• Our research
• Reports and Findings
• 2023
• March 2023

Poor maternal diet during pregnancy is a risk factor for severe lower respiratory infections in the offspring, but the underlying mechanisms remain elusive. Here, we demonstrate that in mice a maternal low-fiber diet led to enhanced LRI severity in infants because of delayed plasmacytoid dendritic cell recruitment and perturbation of regulatory T cell expansion in the lungs. ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
• Our research
• Reports and Findings
• 2023
• March 2023

This review identifies challenges and barriers to successful development of drugs in neuro-oncology trials at the preclinical, clinical and translational stages that we believe has contributed to poor outcomes for patients over the last 30 years. ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
• Our research
• Reports and Findings
• 2023
• March 2023