Responding to disasters: Dealing with health crises at scale
How prepared are we for disasters in 2025? Do we need state and national standards for disaster response teams?
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Vaccine preventable diseases in 2025: Learning from the past and looking forward
Immunisations are one of the world’s greatest public health interventions, and also one of the areas of medicine increasingly susceptible to misinformation. Independent, evidence-based scientific advice to governments and the community is crucial in informing immunisation policy and appropriate utilisation and uptake of safe and effective vaccines.
What an Asia Pacific leadership network can teach us about how health systems can learn…including our own
The right care, to the right child, in the right place, at the right time. Easy to say. Harder to do. Especially as technological advances and new therapies mean what care we deliver is evolving faster than ever.
Getting your heart dirty: A toolkit for clinicians working with children with severe neurological impairment
Advances in medical care and changes in societal expectations have resulted in different patterns of survival for children and adolescents with severe neurological disability. Increased longevity, new and unseen multi-morbidity, and access to an increasing array of new and often invasive interventions offers significant decision-making challenges to children, parents, and clinicians. Sometimes it is not clear if we are helping or harming.
Maternal tuberculosis and impacts on child health
Around a half of women in tuberculosis-endemic countries are infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis and over 1.7 million females of reproductive age (15-45 years) fall ill with tuberculosis (TB) each year. Pregnancy is associated with an increased risk of TB disease which has major consequences for maternal health – TB is the major non-obstetric cause of maternal mortality globally – and for the health of their baby.
Bringing innovation into everyday care: Insights from Victoria’s genomics journey
Genomics has moved rapidly from being purely a research tool to being part of routine care in many specialities and health services. Past Grand Round presenters have described how this has enhanced their service – how genomic care may improve patient outcomes, is cost-effective and can be delivered rapidly for acute cases.
Trauma-Informed Preventative Care: Shaping practice at The Royal Children’s Hospital
Trauma-Informed Preventative Care (TIPC) is shaping the way we support children, young people, families, and staff across The Royal Children’s Hospital.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder – 2 years of Paediatric Cardiac Surgery in New York City
The topic of my Grand Round will be my experience as an Instructor in Congenital Cardiac Surgery in the Children’s Hospital of New York / Columbia University.
Taking a lifelong perspective on Cerebral Palsy: Challenges and opportunities
Emma Livingstone, CEO of UP – The Adult Cerebral Palsy Movement, will share insights from her lived experience and advocacy work on the evolving care and understanding of cerebral palsy (CP) across the lifespan. Her presentation will explore recent research advancements, the lifelong nature of CP, and the importance of addressing co-morbidities. She will also discuss how child practitioners can better equip children with CP for adulthood.
An evidence-based system for early years interventions to reduce child health and developmental inequities: Insights from the interventional birth cohort study Born in Bradford’s Better Start (BiBBS)
There are real challenges in delivering equitable health care in a community, even when there is policy and service goodwill. This is an issue for health services around the world. For the past ten years BiBBS has been working alongside service partners and families to co-design, implement and evaluate multiple early years interventions that are delivered as a part of usual practice in disadvantaged inner-city areas in the UK.