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Our team’s vision is to reduce the burden of infectious diseases in children and their families through comprehensive approaches to understanding the burden of disease, developing and optimising diagnosis and treatment strategies and evaluating and informing current and future prevention programs.

The mission of the Vaccine Trials Group is to improve the health of the community through immunisation and the prevention of infectious diseases.

Research

Listed are The Kids Research Institute Australia research teams involved in our Early Life & Life-Course Health Program. This program sits under the Early Environment research theme.

The END RHD Community Advisory Board and Aboriginal Reference Group formed under the END RHD Program will will ensure a strong community voice that will help drive the RHD research agenda, and the role they play will be vital to achieve our shared goal to eliminate RHD.

News & Events

Laqueisha was just five years old when she was diagnosed with rheumatic heart disease and sent on a 5,000km return trip to Perth for major heart surgery.

The Kids Research Institute Australia is equipped with a diverse range of histology and microscopy equipment and analysis software to facilitate state-of-the-art imaging.

Most laboratory equipment at The Kids Research Institute Australia is owned and maintained by the Institute, in order to make this available for use by all staff and students.

Imagine living with a condition that requires you to make approximately 180 health- related decisions every day for the rest of your life.

Life imitates art in a new project that seeks to entrench cultural safety for young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people into WA’s mental health system.

Researchers from The Kids Research Institute Australia who are working to better understand the serious threat climate change poses to children’s health have led a study revealing the dramatically heightened risk of preterm births as the world gets hotter.