Professor Harriet Hiscock

Associate Director, Research

Professor Harriet Hiscock is a consultant paediatrician and Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences. She is Associate Director, Research at the Centre for Community Child Health and Group Leader, Health Services and Economics at Murdoch Children's Research Institute. Her research focuses on common child health conditions, in particular (i) developing and trialling integrated care models to reduce hospital burden; (ii) reducing low value care;  and (iii) optimising care for common mental health conditions

Professor Hiscock has a strong focus on translation beyond traditional methods, including her infant sleep e- learning package for professionals, MCRI Sleep podcasts for parents and clinicians (> 15,000 downloads in the first month), a sleep app designed to help parents manage common child behaviour problems and her Sleep with Kip books (> 20,000 books sold) and podcasts (www.sleepwithkip.com). Her sleep trials work informs the content of the federal government-funded Raising Children Network Parenting site. She has published over 290 peer reviewed papers and has been awarded continuous National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) funding since 2002.

Professor Hiscock was awarded NHMRC's "10 of the Best Research Projects 2022" for her ground- breaking trials in sleep in children with ADHD and with autism.

 

Awards

  • 2023 Victorian Public Healthcare Award. Category 12- Celebrating a strong and sustainable workforce for Connecting mental health paediatric specialists and community services (COMPASS)
  • 2022 NHMRC “10 of the Best Research Programs” Award
  • 2020 Child and Adolescent Mental Health Journal Top Reviewer 2019
  • 2019 7th Scantlebury Brown Memorial Lecture, University of Melbourne
  • 2018 RACP Arthur E Mills Oration, RACP College Ceremony
  • 2018-2022 NHMRC Practitioner Fellowship
  • 2014-2017 Career Development Fellowship - National Health and Medical Research Council
  • 2012 Fellow's Contribution Award ($150,000), The Royal Australasian College of Physicians
  • 2011 Mentors Award - special commendation, The Royal Australasian College of Physicians
  • 2010 Early Years Minister's Award for Partnerships with Families and Communities for Infant Sleep Program, Victorian government
  • 2010-2013 Career Development Award, National Health and Medical Research Council
  • 2009 Rising Star award for excellence in research less than 10 years post doctorate, Murdoch Children's Research Institute
  • 2009 Rue Wright Memorial Prize for best community child health research at the Annual Scientific Meeting, Royal Australasian College of Physicians
  • 2007 Centre for Community Child Health Jeffrey Mahemoff Travel Scholarship2001: Young Investigator Award at the Annual Scientific Meeting, Royal Australasian College of Physicians
  • 2001 Public Health Scholarship, National Health and Medical Research Council

 

Contact

Email: [email protected]

Project Assistant: Anne Truong ([email protected])

Professor Harriet Hiscock