Prof Melissa Wake
Prof Melissa Wake
Details
Role
Scientific Director Gen V
Research area
The Centre for Community Child Health
Group
Prevention Innovation
Professor Melissa Wake (MBChB, FRACP, FAHMS, MD) is a paediatrician, community child health researcher, and Scientific Director of the Generation Victoria (GenV) initiative. Her “population paediatrics” agenda spans common childhood conditions and antecedents of diseases of ageing.
Her goals are to speed up children’s research and to test interventions that change children’s care. Having led numerous community-based randomised trials, her major focus for this triennium is building the Generation Victoria (GenV) and Child Health CheckPoint platforms for generations of researchers.
Awards include the 2009 Australian Health Minister's Prize for Excellence in Health & Medical Research and consecutive NHMRC Excellence Awards (2009-12, 2013-16) as top-ranked Research Fellow in Australia. Melissa’s projects have twice appeared in the NHMRC's annual 'Ten of the Best' publication (2008, 2017).
Successes in research translation include securing the Victorian Infant Hearing Screening Program, which now screens 80,000 babies annually and is springboarding a continuing program of population-based hearing research.
Other Affiliations:
- Scientific Director, Generation Victoria (GenV)
- Leader, Prevention Innovation group, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute
- Senior Principal Research Fellow, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute
- Professorial Fellow, Department of Paediatrics, the University of Melbourne
Her goals are to speed up children’s research and to test interventions that change children’s care. Having led numerous community-based randomised trials, her major focus for this triennium is building the Generation Victoria (GenV) and Child Health CheckPoint platforms for generations of researchers.
Awards include the 2009 Australian Health Minister's Prize for Excellence in Health & Medical Research and consecutive NHMRC Excellence Awards (2009-12, 2013-16) as top-ranked Research Fellow in Australia. Melissa’s projects have twice appeared in the NHMRC's annual 'Ten of the Best' publication (2008, 2017).
Successes in research translation include securing the Victorian Infant Hearing Screening Program, which now screens 80,000 babies annually and is springboarding a continuing program of population-based hearing research.
Other Affiliations:
- Scientific Director, Generation Victoria (GenV)
- Leader, Prevention Innovation group, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute
- Senior Principal Research Fellow, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute
- Professorial Fellow, Department of Paediatrics, the University of Melbourne
Professor Melissa Wake (MBChB, FRACP, FAHMS, MD) is a paediatrician, community child health researcher, and Scientific Director of the Generation Victoria (GenV) initiative. Her “population paediatrics” agenda spans common childhood conditions and...
Professor Melissa Wake (MBChB, FRACP, FAHMS, MD) is a paediatrician, community child health researcher, and Scientific Director of the Generation Victoria (GenV) initiative. Her “population paediatrics” agenda spans common childhood conditions and antecedents of diseases of ageing.
Her goals are to speed up children’s research and to test interventions that change children’s care. Having led numerous community-based randomised trials, her major focus for this triennium is building the Generation Victoria (GenV) and Child Health CheckPoint platforms for generations of researchers.
Awards include the 2009 Australian Health Minister's Prize for Excellence in Health & Medical Research and consecutive NHMRC Excellence Awards (2009-12, 2013-16) as top-ranked Research Fellow in Australia. Melissa’s projects have twice appeared in the NHMRC's annual 'Ten of the Best' publication (2008, 2017).
Successes in research translation include securing the Victorian Infant Hearing Screening Program, which now screens 80,000 babies annually and is springboarding a continuing program of population-based hearing research.
Other Affiliations:
- Scientific Director, Generation Victoria (GenV)
- Leader, Prevention Innovation group, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute
- Senior Principal Research Fellow, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute
- Professorial Fellow, Department of Paediatrics, the University of Melbourne
Her goals are to speed up children’s research and to test interventions that change children’s care. Having led numerous community-based randomised trials, her major focus for this triennium is building the Generation Victoria (GenV) and Child Health CheckPoint platforms for generations of researchers.
Awards include the 2009 Australian Health Minister's Prize for Excellence in Health & Medical Research and consecutive NHMRC Excellence Awards (2009-12, 2013-16) as top-ranked Research Fellow in Australia. Melissa’s projects have twice appeared in the NHMRC's annual 'Ten of the Best' publication (2008, 2017).
Successes in research translation include securing the Victorian Infant Hearing Screening Program, which now screens 80,000 babies annually and is springboarding a continuing program of population-based hearing research.
Other Affiliations:
- Scientific Director, Generation Victoria (GenV)
- Leader, Prevention Innovation group, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute
- Senior Principal Research Fellow, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute
- Professorial Fellow, Department of Paediatrics, the University of Melbourne
Top Publications
- Li, S, Schmidtke, A, Shepherd, D, Clifford, S, Walsh, A, Cyza, J, Wilson, O, Wake, M, Truby, H. Generation Victoria's 'About Your Child's Food' Survey: A depth survey about Commercial Foods for Infants and Young Children. 2026 view publication
- McBain, K, Clifford, SA, Dumuid, D, Livingstone, A, Olds, T, Wake, M. Parents' preferences for interventions to improve aspects of children's current and future health: two discrete choice experiments.. Arch Dis Child 2026 view publication
- Potter, L, Gasparini, L, Ertan, C, Sung, V, Wang, J, Wake, M. Measuring Environmental Noise for Babies in Special Care Nurseries and Neonatal Intensive Care Units on a Large Scale: Research Methods.. Health Sci Rep 9(4) : e71890 2026 view publication
- Sung, V, Smith, L, Elliott, K, Wang, J, Beswick, R, Ching, TYC, Feller, H, Harkus, S, Kluk, K, Kong, K, et al. Study protocol - the Australian National Child hearing Health Outcomes Registry (ANCHOR): collecting and connecting national data into a child deafness Learning Health System.. BMC Health Serv Res 26(1) : 2026 view publication
- Hughes, EK, Siero, W, Gülenç, A, Fedyukova, A, Clifford, SA, Frugier, T, Mohal, J, Schwarz, N, Shepherd, DA, Barker, M, et al. Cohort Profile: Generation Victoria (GenV).. Int J Epidemiol 55(2) : 2026 view publication
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