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Dr Michelle Tollit

Dr Michelle Tollit

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Role Senior Research Officer
Research area Clinical Sciences
Michelle Tollit is a Senior Research Officer at Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. She is also the Evaluation Co-ordinator at the Royal Children’s Hospital Gender Service, and holds an Honorary Senior Fellow appointment with the Department of Paediatrics, the University of Melbourne.

Michelle has taken a lead role on the Trans20 study, the first comprehensive longitudinal clinical study of trans children and adolescents in Australia. She brings over 20 years of research experience in child and adolescent health and wellbeing research working across intervention and longitudinal observational research, and has worked in trans health research since 2015.

Through her research, Michelle endeavours to better understand the health care needs of trans and gender diverse children and adolescents as well as outcomes of treatment provision to inform clinical care for trans and gender diverse young people.
Michelle Tollit is a Senior Research Officer at Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. She is also the Evaluation Co-ordinator at the Royal Children’s Hospital Gender Service, and holds an Honorary Senior Fellow appointment with the Department of...
Michelle Tollit is a Senior Research Officer at Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. She is also the Evaluation Co-ordinator at the Royal Children’s Hospital Gender Service, and holds an Honorary Senior Fellow appointment with the Department of Paediatrics, the University of Melbourne.

Michelle has taken a lead role on the Trans20 study, the first comprehensive longitudinal clinical study of trans children and adolescents in Australia. She brings over 20 years of research experience in child and adolescent health and wellbeing research working across intervention and longitudinal observational research, and has worked in trans health research since 2015.

Through her research, Michelle endeavours to better understand the health care needs of trans and gender diverse children and adolescents as well as outcomes of treatment provision to inform clinical care for trans and gender diverse young people.

Top Publications

  • Pace, C, Chinsen, A, Cheung, AS, Skinner, SR, Knight, KW, Tollit, MA, Telfer, MM, Pang, KC. Safeguarding the health and wellbeing of transgender young people.. Med J Aust 221(10) : 516 -519 2024
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  • Tollit, MA, Maloof, T, Hoq, M, Haebich, K, Pace, CC, Rodriguez, ZM, Sial, M, Payne, JM, Pang, K. A comparison of gender diversity in transgender young people with and without autistic traits from the Trans 20 cohort study.. Lancet Reg Health West Pac 47: 101084 2024
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  • Chinsen, A, Cronin, TJ, Pace, CC, Tollit, MA, Pang, KC. Evaluation of a codesigned group cognitive-behavioural therapy intervention for trans young people (TAG TEAM): protocol for a feasibility trial and a subsequent pilot RCT.. BMJ Open 14(1) : e076511 2024
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  • Tollit, MA, Sawyer, SM, Ratnapalan, S, Barnett, T. Education support services for improving school engagement and academic performance of children and adolescents with a chronic health condition. 2024
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  • Barnett, T, Tollit, M, Ratnapalan, S, Sawyer, SM, Kelaher, M. Education support services for improving school engagement and academic performance of children and adolescents with a chronic health condition.. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2(2) : CD011538 2023
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