Synopsis:

The Learning Hub is a collaborative online space that supports knowledge exchange and learning through training and professional development. Two new eLearning courses will be officially launched today.

Speakers:Professor Frank Oberklaid AOM , MD, FRACP is the Foundation Director of the Centre for Community Child Health at The Royal Children’s Hospital and a Professor of Paediatrics at the University of Melbourne, an internationally recognised researcher, author, lecturer and consultant. Frank will tell us the origins of the Learning Hub and its future direction.

Professor Sheena Reilly is Professor of Speech Pathology, Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne and Associate Director Clinical and Public Health at Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences, Fellow of the UK Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists and of Speech Pathology Australia, an Honorary Research Fellow with the Australian Stuttering Research Centre, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Sydney and Visiting Professor, Neurosciences Unit, Institute of Child Health, University of London. Her research focuses on childhood communication problems. Sheena will talk about the Let’s Read eLearning course and the importance of promoting literacy-rich environments for children from birth

Associate Professor Harriet Hiscock is a consultant paediatrician and postdoctoral research fellow at the Centre for Community Child Health, Royal Children’s Hospital and Murdoch Childrens Research Institute where she is co-director of the Unsettled Babies Clinic, she is also an Associate Paediatrics in the Department of Paediatrics at the University of Melbourne. Her research interests lie in common, high impact infant and child health problems including infant sleep and colic and associated postnatal depression in parents, child behavioural and mental health problems and child sleep. Harriet will share information on the Infant Sleep eLearning Program and how this can support healthcare professionals who are working with parents having trouble with their infant’s sleep.

Find out more about the Learning Hub and how it can help you in your daily practice—whether research or clinical work—to support the health, development and wellbeing of children and their families. Contact Shae Wissell on x66542 or email info@learninghub.org.au for further information.