Centres of Research Excellence
Our National Centres of Research Excellence (CREs) are funded through five-year National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) grants, bringing together leading researchers, clinicians and families across Australia and internationally.
The CREs each aim to improve health outcomes for children and families and promote improved translation of research outcomes of policy and practice in their given area of expertise.
Childhood Adversity & Mental Health
Creating a sustainable service and co-designed to improve children’s mental health through early detection and response to family adversity.
CP-Achieve - Cerebral Palsy
Centre for Food and Allergy Research (CFAR)
Global Adolescent Health
Newborn Medicine
Pneumococcal Disease Control in the Asia-Pacific
Addressing outstanding research gaps for pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) use in the Asia-Pacific region.
Translational Centre for Speech Disorders
We are studying the underlying causes of speech disorders and not just surface language disorder symptoms.
Paediatric Emergency Medicine Centre
Emergency Department patient care throughout Australasia.
Stronger Futures
Building resilience and breaking intergenerational cycles of intergenerational trauma and social inequity.
Other programs
Centre for Ethics of Paediatric Genomics
The world’s first ethics research centre specifically devoted to ethical issues in paediatric genomics.
Centre for Health Analytics
Epi-Genomic Newborn screening (EpiGNs) program
A new program to improve health outcomes for babies and their families using a heel prick test.
Completed Centres of Research Excellence
Child Language
Investigated factors that affect and improve child language and development
Neuromuscular Disorders
Improved diagnosis, facilitated prevention and transformed treatment from compassionate management to effective therapy.
Speech and Language
Identified, targeted and sought to understand the causes of developmental speech and language disorders.
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