Celebrating 30 years of the Centre for Community Child Health
12/04/2024
To mark this special occasion, we hosted a full-day showcase event for our partners, supporters and staff to celebrate our past and make a commitment to our future.
The showcase featured national and international speakers, and panellists from the Centre and our community partners, with expertise spanning children’s health and development, mental health, clinical care, research and education.
“We have set out an ambitious mission of achieving equitable real-life improvements in children’s health, development and wellbeing within a generation. Our commitment to building evidence for impactful and data driven decision-making will remain steadfast. I am particularly enthusiastic about our growing active engagement with policymakers who are helping to shape a more equitable and supportive environment for children and their families.”
- Professor Sharon Goldfeld, Director of the Centre for Community Child Health
30th anniversary publication
The Centre has a rich history of establishing strong partnerships and translating evidence into impactful initiatives, leading to real-life improvements in children’s health, development and wellbeing.
Our new anniversary publication – Celebrating 30 years of advancing equitable child health, development and wellbeing through evidence and innovation – reflects on our achievements over the past 30 years and reinforces our mission of achieving equitable real-life improvements in children’s health, development and wellbeing within a generation.
Read the 30th anniversary publication.
Thank you to all who have been an integral part of our 30-year journey.
Session recordings
Opening addresses from Ms Bernadette McDonald and Prof Kathryn North AC.
Keynote address by Naomi Eisenstadt CB.
Generating evidence: Addressing the social determinants of health through service innovation chaired by Dr Anna Price.
Applying evidence: Taking an integrated approach to reducing inequity chaired by Dr Suzy Honisett and Prof Harriet Hiscock.
Translating the evidence: The new mental health paradigm chaired by Dr Simone Darling.
Doing research differently: Embedding research and data to drive equitable systems change chaired by Olivia Hilton and Lauren Heery.
Research in partnership for impact chaired by Dr Karen McLean.
Keynote address by Dr Nat Kendall-Taylor.
About the Centre
With a focus on prevention and early intervention, the Centre partners with families, communities, services, funders and governments to make a measurable difference for children.
We are proud to unite care, research and learning as part of the Melbourne Children’s Campus. We are a department of The Royal Children’s Hospital (RCH), a research group of the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI), and affiliate of the University of Melbourne’s Department of Paediatrics.
