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ATOMIC Ears Study

We are looking for children to take part in an important study that will assess a new treatment designed to prevent ongoing ear infections in kids having grommet surgery.

Pneumococcal Disease

Contact us If you'd like to get in touch, please contact us by phone or email. Phone: 0400 450 240 Email: vtg@thekids.org.au Pneumococcal disease is

Pertussis (Whooping Cough)

Coming up in 2021 Contact us We have a a study to suit every age range in 2021! From babies at just six weeks for the FluBub Study, through to

Allergy Prevention

Allergies have been on the rise in Australia over the past 20 years, with three out of every 10 babies born each year now developing a food-related

Dr Janessa Pickering

Dr Janessa Pickering is a research microbiologist with expertise in the molecular diagnostics and host pathogen interactions of upper respiratory tract pathogens that cause disease in children.

Wesfarmers Centre of Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Deborah Lehmann Research Award

The Wesfarmers Centre has established the Deborah Lehmann Research Award to acknowledge the significant contribution that Clinical Associate Professor Deborah Lehmann AO has made to paediatric infectious disease research.

CHIP Study

The CHIP Study investigates how burn injuries in children affect their immune system.

Community-wide versus school-based targeted deworming for soil-transmitted helminth control in school-aged children in Vietnam: the CoDe-STH cluster-randomised controlled trial

Soil-transmitted helminth (STH) infection control programs typically consist of school-based preventive chemotherapy (PC) targeted to school-aged children. STH reservoirs in untreated community members contribute to ongoing transmission in children. The CoDe-STH (Community Deworming against STH) trial, conducted in Dak Lak province, Vietnam, between October 2019 and November 2020, aimed to determine whether community-wide mass drug administration (MDA) is more effective than school-based targeted PC in reducing STH prevalence and intensity in children.

"Fighting the pandemic!" Western Australian pharmacists' perspectives on COVID-19 vaccines: A qualitative study

In Western Australia, community pharmacists are authorized to administer a range of vaccines without a prescription. Since mid-July 2021, pharmacists can also administer Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccines. Little is known about how pharmacists think and feel about giving and receiving COVID-19 vaccines and how they discuss it with patients.