Synopsis
Fortunately, COVID-19 in children is generally mild. However, the necessary public health mitigation measures to control community transmission have resulted in many unintended consequences for families and children.
How are Victorian children tracking during the pandemic? What can families do to help their children through these uncertain times? And how are young people with disabilities faring?
We will be joined by 4 leading experts to discuss these issues.
Speakers
Professor Sharon Goldfeld is a paediatrician and public health physician. She is Director of the Centre for Community Child Health, RCH and Theme Director Population Health, MCRI. Though her leadership and research she is driving complementary, synergistic and cross-disciplinary streams of work focused on investigating, testing and translating sustainable policy relevant solutions that eliminate health and developmental inequities for Australia’s children.
Dr Anthea Rhodes is a Paediatrician at the Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, and Director of the RCH National Child Health Poll. She is a lecturer with the University of Melbourne, Department of Paediatrics and a Research Associate with the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. Anthea has specialist training in child development and behaviour. She has a research interest in health services and health communication, as well the impact of media and digital technology on the health and wellbeing of children and families.
Professor Harriet Hiscock is a consultant paediatrician and National Health and Medical Research Council Practitioner Fellow. She is Associate Director, Research at the Centre for Community Child Health, Director of the Royal Children’s Hospital Health Services Research Unit and Group Leader, Health Services, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. Her research focuses on developing, testing and implementing novel approaches to: (i) keep children out of hospital; (ii) reduce low value (wasteful) care; and (iii) integrate health, social and education services to improve health and wellbeing for children, including those living with family adversity.
Associate Professor Daryl Efron is a paediatrician at the Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, and Senior Research Fellow at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. His research focuses on interventions and systems of care for children and adolescents with developmental disorders.