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Healthy Trajectories: A Child and Youth Disability Research Hub

Our Healthy Trajectories research is done in partnership with consumers, clinicians, and researchers with diverse disciplinary expertise. Our goal is to contribute evidence to rapidly improve the health, wellbeing, and participation of those with child-onset disability and their families. We will only be able to ensure that people with disability can participate as equal members of society if we collaborate effectively across disciplines and sectors: we invite your involvement.

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International Women’s Day

International Women’s Day (IWD) is an annual global campaign, marked on 8th March, which celebrates the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating women’s equality. Each year the IWD campaign has a new theme, and in 2023 the theme is #EmbraceEquity.  https://www.internationalwomensday.com/theme

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Clinical Transfusion Practice: Small steps and giant leaps

This Grand Rounds presentation was originally given as The Ruth Sanger Oration at the Blood conference in 2022.  The Ruth Sanger Medal is awarded annually by the Australian and New Zealand Society of blood transfusion to someone who has made a significant contribution to the field of transfusion medicine. It is made in memory of the extraordinary contributions of Ruth Sanger, an Australian scientist and blood group serologist whose meticulous work led to significant increases in our knowledge of blood groups, blood-group antibodies, and the genetics of blood groups.

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Caring for Children with Cancer Wherever They May Live: ARIA and the Global Initiative for Childhood Cancer

Is it possible, and is it ethical to resource-adapt cancer treatment developed in high income countries for the benefit of children with cancer living in low- and middle-income settings?

This is the dilemma, and the challenge, faced by health care professionals in such countries who care for 80% of the world’s children who have cancer, and where the chance of cure often remains poor. Adapting cancer treatment is a key pillar of the WHO Global Initiative for Childhood Cancer to improve the cure rates for children with cancer to 60% by 2030.

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Design for Health Equity: Lessons from health literacy

This Grand Round will consider how human-centered design, applied to the health system and informed by a health-literacy framework, may help advance health equity.  We will review evidence that includes inter-disciplinary scholarship (e.g., behavioral science, computer science, clinical epidemiology) in the areas of obesity prevention, promoting school readiness, chronic-illness management and the care of children with special health care needs.

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Whistle while you wheeze

Wheezing in childhood is extremely common, nearly 50% of children experience at least one episode of wheezing before the age of 6 years and wheeze is one of the commonest health problems requiring medical care. Children aged between 1-5 years account for 75% of these admissions with the median age of admission for acute attacks of wheeze being 3 years.

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Adolescent Violence in the Home (AVITH)

Adolescent use of violence in the home (AVITH) refers to violence, or abusive or intimidating behaviours by a young person against their parent, carer, sibling or other family member within the home. The Victorian Family Violence Reform recognises violence used by young people as a distinct form of family violence, requiring unique responses to the inherent complexities of this form of family violence. I

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The Ethical Significance of Play: Should we be playing more?

The opportunity to play is a fundamental interest of children and play is also recognised as a child’s right (article 31 of the Convention on Rights of the Child). Play is necessary for a child’s development, their healing and to mediate their experience of medical care and procedures.

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Life as a clinician-scientist in General Medicine: Choose your own adventure

Interested in combining research with your clinical work? This Grand Round features clinician scientists from the Department of General Medicine. You will hear about their diverse career pathways and research programs, as well as how they balance research with their clinical work and other commitments.

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