Overview

What is VicCHILD?

VicCHILD is the Victorian Childhood Hearing Longitudinal Databank.

VicCHILD is a Victorian register and research databank of children born with permanent hearing loss, based at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne.

We collect different information from children and their families to create a unique resource for advancing research in hearing loss.

We ultimately aim to help children with hearing loss reach their full potentials.

Over 1,100 Victorian families have already contributed data to VicCHILD.

Learn more about VicCHILD

 

 

Our team

Lead researcher

  • Associate Professor Valerie Sung

Investigators

  • Professor Melissa Wake
  • Dr Zeffie Poulakis
  • Dr Peter Carew
  • Dr Lilian Downie
  • Professor Angela Morgan
  • Dr Jing Wang
  • Dr Daisy Shepherd

 Project staff

  • Libby Smith (Project coordinator)
  • Alanna Gillespie
  • Christina Barber
  • Tegan Howell
  • Jessica Xu
  • Kayla Elliott

Partners and funders

VicCHILD is currently funded by The Royal Children’s Hospital Foundation Grant 2018 - VicCHILD: A statewide deafness infrastructure bridging research & clinical care (CIA Sung V; CIB Wake M; CIC Poulakis Z; CID Amor D; CIE Jones C; CIF Carew P; CIG Connell T).

VicCHILD is supported by the Melbourne Children's LifeCourse platform, with funding from the Department of Health and Human Services, Victor Chiodo Foundation, and Morgan Stanley.

VicCHILD also receives support from Deaf Children Australia.

Learn about our affiliations and previous funding

Resources

View our academic publications

Contact us

VicCHILD
Murdoch Children's Research Institute
The Royal Children's Hospital
50 Flemington Road
Parkville VIC 3052
Australia

Phone: +61 3 9345 4215
Email: [email protected]