Scientific Review Panel (SRP)

Board Chair ( * = members on both SRP and Board )

  • Professor Carol Bower*

    Professor Carol Bower*

    Senior Principal Research Fellow, Division of Population Sciences and Clinical Professor, Centre for Child Health Research The University of Western Australia, the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research. Current research interests include Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and alcohol in pregnancy, Rett syndrome, neural tube defects and population databases for research.

SRP Member

  • Dr Nigel Dickson*

    Senior Lecturer, Department of Preventive and Social Medicine University of Otago, New Zealand. Co-Director New Zealand Paediatric Surveillance Unit.

  • Dr Yvonne Zurynksi*

    Dr Yvonne Zurynksi*

    Assistant Director, The Australian Paediatric Surveillance Unit.

  • Professor Bin Jalaludin*

    Professor Bin Jalaludin*

    Professor, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of New South Wales and Director, Centre for Research, Evidence Management and Surveillance, Sydney South West Area Health Service. His research interests are in air pollution and environmental epidemiology, neighbourhoods and health, analysis of large administrative datasets, as well as in translating research into policy. Professor Jalaludin is currently an investigator on a number of significant research projects funded by the ARC, Environment Protection and Heritage Council, NHMRC, Alcohol Education and Rehabilitation Foundation and the Department of Environment and Heritage.

  • Professor Elizabeth Elliott*

    Professor Elizabeth Elliott*

    Professor, Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Sydney and Consultant Paediatrician, The Children's Hospital at Westmead. Director, The Australian Paediatric Surveillance Unit.

  • Professor Melissa Wake*

    Professor Melissa Wake*

    Consultant paediatrician Dr Melissa Wake is Director of Research at the Centre for Community Child Health and an Associate Director of the Centre. In this role, Melissa leads a strong team of researchers looking at the development and translation of community-based strategies that prevent or manage common childhood conditions - obesity, language and literacy delay, hearing, and developmental and behavioural concerns. Melissa is also a Senior Research Fellow with the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute and Professorial Fellow with the Department of Paedaitrics at the University of Melbourne.

  • Professor Michael Nissen

    Professor Michael Nissen

    Director of Infectious Diseases & Clinical Microbiologist, Unit Head of Qld Paediatric Infectious Disease Laboratory. Associate Professor in Biomolecular, Biomedical Science & Health, Royal Children's Hospital, Brisbane.