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Role Group Leader / Principal Research Fellow
Professor David Burgner is a practising paediatric infectious diseases physician, leads the Inflammatory Origins Group and co-leads the LifeCourse longitudinal observational cohorts initiative at Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. He holds major national and international clinical / research positions including leadership roles in ASID, ESPID, WSPID and is an AAHMS fellow.

Professor Burgner is an international authority on understanding the susceptibility and consequences to childhood infection and inflammation, particularly in relation to the development of cardiometabolic disease risk. He is an internationally recognised clinical and scientific leader in Kawasaki disease and has made major scientific, clinical and policy contributions to the Australian response to the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly the hyperinflammatory post-infectious syndrome (known as PIMS-TS or MIS-C) in children.
Professor David Burgner is a practising paediatric infectious diseases physician, leads the Inflammatory Origins Group and co-leads the LifeCourse longitudinal observational cohorts initiative at Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. He holds major...
Professor David Burgner is a practising paediatric infectious diseases physician, leads the Inflammatory Origins Group and co-leads the LifeCourse longitudinal observational cohorts initiative at Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. He holds major national and international clinical / research positions including leadership roles in ASID, ESPID, WSPID and is an AAHMS fellow.

Professor Burgner is an international authority on understanding the susceptibility and consequences to childhood infection and inflammation, particularly in relation to the development of cardiometabolic disease risk. He is an internationally recognised clinical and scientific leader in Kawasaki disease and has made major scientific, clinical and policy contributions to the Australian response to the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly the hyperinflammatory post-infectious syndrome (known as PIMS-TS or MIS-C) in children.

Top Publications

  • Sominsky, L, O'Hely, M, Drummond, K, Cao, S, Collier, F, Dhar, P, Loughman, A, Dawson, S, Tang, ML, Mansell, T, et al. Pre-pregnancy obesity is associated with greater systemic inflammation and increased risk of antenatal depression.. Brain Behav Immun 113: 189 -202 2023
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  • Priest, N, Guo, S, Gondek, D, O'Connor, M, Moreno-Betancur, M, Gray, S, Lacey, R, Burgner, DP, Woolfenden, S, Badland, H, et al. The potential of intervening on childhood adversity to reduce socioeconomic inequities in body mass index and inflammation among Australian and UK children: A causal mediation analysis.. J Epidemiol Community Health 77(10) : 632 -640 2023
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  • Zhu, Y, Almeida, FJ, Baillie, JK, Bowen, AC, Britton, PN, Brizuela, ME, Buonsenso, D, Burgner, D, Chew, KY, Chokephaibulkit, K, et al. International Pediatric COVID-19 Severity Over the Course of the Pandemic.. JAMA Pediatr 177(10) : 1073 -1084 2023
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  • Gao, Y, Stokholm, J, O'Hely, M, Ponsonby, A-L, Tang, MLK, Ranganathan, S, Saffery, R, Harrison, LC, Collier, F, Gray, L, et al. Gut microbiota maturity mediates the protective effect of siblings on food allergy.. J Allergy Clin Immunol 152(3) : 667 -675 2023
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  • Pham, C, Thomson, S, Chin, S-T, Vuillermin, P, O'Hely, M, Burgner, D, Tanner, S, Saffery, R, Mansell, T, Bong, S, et al. Maternal oxidative stress during pregnancy associated with emotional and behavioural problems in early childhood: implications for foetal programming.. Mol Psychiatry 28(9) : 3760 -3768 2023
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