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.
NAIDOC Week: Wadja Walk-Through
Synopsis The Royal Children’s Hospital welcomes patients from all over our beautiful country for cardiac treatment, but we also acknowledge that this can be a frightening time for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and their families that can bring up feelings of fear, sadness, homesickness, and isolation. Many of our Aboriginal and Torres Strait … Continued
The Cancer Flagship at MCRI – Driving innovations in diagnosis, therapy and survivorship for children with cancer
After completing a comprehensive process, including stakeholder engagement and workshops, the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute has established a Cancer Flagship to bring together child health researchers across multiple disciplines interested and invested in childhood cancer across the research continuum.
Embedding trauma informed, family centred, and evidence-based approaches into practice: What’s next for the Campus Mental Health Strategy?
The Grand Rounds will explore:
Bringing the voice of the child and family into our day-to-day interactions, and the importance of lived experience perspectives when designing new approaches to support mental health and wellbeing.
Multi-disciplinary care models improve outcomes for complex colorectal and pelvic surgical patients
Multi-disciplinary care is vital for the treatment of complex patients, especially those with rare diseases. The benefits of multi-disciplinary collaboration go beyond clinical outcomes and include research.