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Discovery and impact
View all discoveriesTackling COVID-19 for children and families
Reducing the impact of COVID-19 on children and the community, now and into the ...
Read more about Tackling COVID-19 for children and familiesHelping children with dwarfism reach new heights
Boosting the bone growth rate of children with achondroplasia.
Read more about Helping children with dwarfism reach new heightsCuring Australia's most deadly food allergies
Investigating ways to retrain the immune system of children with food allergy.
Read more about Curing Australia's most deadly food allergiesRedefining how child concussion is treated in the ED
Helping identify and manage youth concussion through HeadCheck.
Read more about Redefining how child concussion is treated in the EDRotavirus vaccine saving millions of lives
Trialling the RV3-BB rotavirus vaccine in low-income countries.
Read more about Rotavirus vaccine saving millions of livesTransforming child health
Changing the lives of children in Australia
GenV is transforming the health and wellbeing of an entire generation
Read moreImproving physical and mental health outcomes for young trans people
Read moreSupporting Australian families living with allergy and allergic diseases
Read moreVCGS is driving human-centred genetic healthcare, research and policy in Australia
Read moreChanging the lives of children around the globe
Advancing treatment for incurable childhood diseases
Read moreLeading the global fight to wipe out scabies
Read moreEmpowering community leaders to vaccinate under-vaccinated populations
Read moreFinding cost effective and simple ways to address oxygen access for sick children
Read moreChild health
A-Z of child and adolescent health
Explore the A-Z of child health and learn more about our many research areas.
View all A-Z child healthMeet the children making it possible
Meet the children and families whose lives have been changed by the incredible work of our committed researchers.
Read more about our child health heroesMCRI's Flagship Research
View all Flagship ResearchAboriginal Health
Working with Aboriginal communities to promote health, wellbeing and equity for all.
Read moreNeurodevelopment
Transform our treatment of autism, social impairment and intellectual disability
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