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Mental health problems are the most prevalent and expensive chronic condition affecting children.

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Improving Health Outcomes in the Tropical North: A Multidisciplinary Collaboration (HOT NORTH)

Jonathan Christopher Carapetis AM Blyth AM MBBS FRACP FAFPHM PhD FAHMS MBBS (Hons) DCH FRACP FRCPA PhD Executive Director; Co-Head, Strep A

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Is acamprosate safe to use in pregnancy, and can it mitigate the effects of alcohol consumption in pregnant mice?

Investigators: Alexander Larcombe External collaborators: Dr Caitlin Wyrwoll (University of Western Australia), Dr Erin Kelty (University of Western

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Optimisation of sampling for a new Skin Microbiome assay

Asha Janessa Tim Bowen Pickering Barnett BA MBBS DCH FRACP PhD GAICD FAHMS OAM BSc PhD PhD Head, Healthy Skin and ARF Prevention Senior Research

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Early literacy skills: review of evidence for pedagogical approaches that best support children’s early literacy skills

Recent evidence indicates that a child’s home learning environment is the strongest predictor of success in later reading abilities and that for children not receiving structured language and reading support at home.

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Targeting interventions to improve influenza control: a proof of principle geomapping study

Christopher Kefyalew Hannah Blyth Alene Moore MBBS (Hons) DCH FRACP FRCPA PhD BSc, MPH, PhD OAM BSc (Hons) GradDipClinEpi PhD Centre Head, Wesfarmers

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Patient-Reported Outcome Measures for Acute Lower Respiratory Infection (ALRI-PRO): Developing and Establishing Content Validity

Patient (or parent/carer proxy) Reported Outcomes (PROs) are those reported from a patient perspective, capturing how they feel, function, or survive.

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PELICAN: Prematurity’s Effects on the Lungs in Children and Adults Network

The PELICAN (Prematurity’s Effects on the Lungs in Children and Adults Network) Clinical Research Collaboration was launched by the European Respiratory Society (ERS) in 2020

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PLAYCE@Home - understanding the impact of COVID-19 on children’s physical activity, health & development

Hayley Andrea Liz Phoebe Pulan Christian Nathan Wenden George Bai BSc (1st Class Hons), PhD W.Aust. BHlthSc (hons), PhD BHlthSc MPH BSc(Neuro), MPH

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PREDICT CF: Assessing the role of lung clearance index in predicting disease progression in children with cystic fibrosis

There is increasing evidence that the assessment of ventilation distribution using the multiple breath washout (MBW) technique is sensitive to changes in disease status of children with cystic fibrosis.