Synopsis

The Consultative Council on Obstetric and Paediatric Mortality and Morbidity (CCOPMM) monitors the causes and factors involved in all child deaths throughout Victoria, and provides recommendations to Government, health care professionals and the community.  In recent years the Council has identified the social and economic gradient in risk of child deaths, which includes virtually all causes, from accidental trauma, drowning, SIDS, infections and chronic illnesses.  The Council has long recommended improvements in the systems for provision of child welfare and support to families who are vulnerable, especially families of children with chronic illness, and these needs are magnified in the COVID-19 pandemic era.

Speakers

Professor Paul Monagle is the chair of the Child and Adolescent sub-committee of CCOPMM and Professor Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne.

Adjunct Professor Tanya Farrell is Chair of CCOPMM, and Acting Chief Nursing and Midwifery Officer at Safer Care Victoria.

Dr Sophie Treleaven is a paediatric epidemiologist at CCOPMM.  Sophie is a member of the Neonatal and Child and Adolescent subcommittees of CCOPMM.  Her role at CCOPMM is the analysis of deaths and the development of evidence-based recommendations for CCOPMM.