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Learn more about the Wesfarmers Centre of Vaccines and Infectious Diseases

Contact us If you'd like to get in touch, please contact us by phone or email. Phone: 0400 450 240 Email: vtg@thekids.org.au The Vaccine Trials Group

The CHIP Study investigates how burn injuries in children affect their immune system.

CMVictory: finding a vaccine for cytomegalovirus, a serious virus for unborn babies

To improve the health of the community through immunisation and prevention of infectious diseases, we are conducting clinical trials of vaccines.

Allergies have been on the rise in Australia over the past 20 years, with three out of every 10 babies born each year now developing a food-related

Māori and Pacific governance groups discuss and inform study protocols and issues that have arisen during the study, particularly those pertaining to Māori and Pacific ARF patients and their whānau.

Research

A standardised framework for selecting outcomes for evaluation in trials has been proposed by the Core Outcome Measures in Effectiveness Trials working group. However, this method does not specify how to ensure that the outcomes that are selected are causally related to the disease and the health intervention being studied. Causal network diagrams may help researchers identify outcomes that are both clinically meaningful and likely to be causally dependent on the intervention, and endpoints that are, in turn, causally dependent on those outcomes.

Research

An interseasonal resurgence of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) was observed in Western Australia at the end of 2020. Our previous report describing this resurgence compared the 2019 and 2020 calendar years, capturing only part of the 2020/21 season.

Research

Infants aged <6 months are vulnerable to severe influenza disease and no vaccine is approved for use in this age group. We aimed to describe the epidemiology, risk factors associated with severe outcomes and management of influenza in Australian infants aged <6 months.