Our partners
Children’s Health Queensland strives to be at the forefront of research that delivers the best-possible health outcomes for children and young people. We are proud to partner with leading universities and health organisations across 29 district research groups, all working towards innovative solutions in paediatric health care.
Centre for Children’s Health Research
The Centre for Children’s Health Research is a partnership between Children’s Health Queensland, The University of Queensland and the Queensland University of Technology, working in collaboration with the Translational Research Institute.
It is an integrated hub of specialist knowledge dedicated to improving the health of children, and facilitating best opportunities for collaborative research projects.
Located on the Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital campus in South Brisbane, the centre represents Queensland’s first fully-integrated research facility focused on child and adolescent health research.
The nine-level centre houses wet and dry laboratories, pathology services, a gait laboratory, a nutrition laboratory and the Queensland Children’s Tumour Bank, funded by the Children’s Hospital Foundation, which provides a tissue repository for national and international cancer research. The centre also houses the Queensland Children’s Motion Analysis Service and the Children’s Nutrition Research Centre.
Children’s Health Queensland is committed to working collaboratively with key research partners including:
UQ CHRC is composed of a number of research groups who conduct studies across the spectrum of health – child nutrition, maternal health and neonatal health, burns and trauma, respiratory disease, environmental health, social and emotional wellbeing, cerebral palsy and rehabilitation, and more. Our groups work collaboratively within the centre, across UQ, and alongside other industry, government and research partners to understand the factors that ensure good health in childhood and to prevent and treat disease and disability. Our collective vision is to prevent disease and disability before it occurs, thereby giving children the gift of lifelong health.
The University of Queensland Child Health Research Centre. UQ website
Many of our research strengths are concentrated into specialist research centres, programs and laboratories that bring together leading researchers and outstanding facilities. Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation website
Children’s Health Research Alliance
The Children’s Health Research Alliance was created to pursue a program of ‘big ideas’ that change health outcomes for children through world-class paediatric research. The alliance is a joint initiative of Children’s Health Queensland and the Children’s Hospital Foundation, who will work collaboratively to:
- Transform health outcomes for children
- Make a major contribution to global research
- Build research capacity in targeted research areas
- Reduce the burden of disease on the health system and broader economy.
The Research Alliance targets research areas based on evidence and need, such as burden of disease, causes of death and hospitalisation. It networks with universities and other national health and Medical Research Council-approved institutions who are undertaking cutting-edge children’s health research in Queensland.
The alliance is managed by the Research Alliance Board.
Key principles underpinning its activities include:
- Focus
- Collaboration
- Inclusion
- Capacity building
- Innovation
- Excellence
- Translation and impact.
Key contacts
CHQ
t: +61 7 3069 7230
e: CHQ_DirResearch@health.qld.gov.au
UQ
Child Health Research Centre
Professor Karen Moritz
Director – Child Health Research Centre (CHRC)
UQ Director – Centre for Children’s Health Research (CCHR)
QUT
Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation
Professor Geoff Cleghorn
Director – Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation
QUT Director – Centre for Children’s Health Research (CCHR)
