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Smart Walking and Cycling: Active Travel to School Simulator

The overarching purpose of this research is to tackle a pressing public health challenge: the declining rates of physical activity among children and their increasing reliance on private vehicles for the daily school commute.

Sore Throat Melbourne and Perth Study: The Australian Strep A Vaccine Initiative (ASAVI) Urban Pharyngitis Surveillance Study (STAMPS)

This study will be a multi-centred, prospective, cohort surveillance study looking at superficial Strep A infections in pre-school and school-aged children in urban Perth and Melbourne.

Spatiotemporal patterns of drug susceptible and drug resistant tuberculosis in Hunan Province, China

Investigators: Kefyalew Alene, Archie Clements External collaborators: Kerri Viney, Dr Darren J Gray (Australian National University) Zuhui Xu (

SunSmart messaging for WA young people

Engaging young people in sun safety messaging is important because they are vulnerable to the harmful long-term effects of too much sun exposure.

Current studies

To improve the health of the community through immunisation and prevention of infectious diseases, we are conducting clinical trials of vaccines.

Surveillance studies

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RSV Immunisation Guidance Tool

This tool is designed to help current and future parents and caregivers as well as health care providers. It is currently based on the 2026 Western Australian RSV immunisation program.

Program aims to stop skin infections in their tracks

An innovative program set to run for about two and a half years aims to halve the number of children affected by skin infections.

“Beacon” Cyber App Project with Bankwest

The Kids Research Institute Australia and Bankwest partnered together from 2019-2022 to develop a cyber safety app that provides parents and carers with the knowledge and skills to help their children thrive in a digital world.

Community voices to foster cultural safety

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.