SYNOPSIS
For over 21 years, the Centre for Community Child Health (CCCH) has been working with children, families and communities to promote healthy development and equity of outcomes. The Centre was founded in 1994 by Professor Frank Oberklaid OAM, and has grown into a 100-strong team – recognised nationally and internationally for leadership in child health and development.

CCCH’s success stems from its unique structure that promotes mutual emphasis on innovative research, specialist clinical practice and translation of evidence to inform policy, service delivery, practice and parenting. This coming together of research, practice and translation expertise is reflected in the Centre’s key initiatives of the past two decades.

Professor Frank Oberklaid will present on the practice of community child health over the past two decades and the challenges for the future. Professor Oberklaid will discuss how CCCH works to take the science beyond our institutions to families and communities, and will highlight some of the Centre’s key successes on the journey toward improving child and family health and wellbeing.
SPEAKER
Professor Frank Oberklaid OAM, MD, FRACP is the Foundation Director of the Centre for Community Child Health at The Royal Children’s Hospital, Co-Research Group Leader (Policy, Equity and Translation) at the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute and an Honorary Professor of Paediatrics at the University of Melbourne.

Professor Oberklaid is an internationally recognised researcher, author, lecturer and consultant. He has written two books and over 200 scientific publications. His work has been acknowledged in the form of a number of prestigious awards, and many invited international lectureships and visiting professorships. He is Chair of the Victorian Children’s Council, which advises the Premier and Ministers on child health policy. He is especially interested in prevention and early intervention, and the use of research to inform public policy and service delivery.