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Latest news & events at the Wesfarmers Centre of Vaccines & Infectious Diseases.

Clinical Professor Tobias Strunk, Dr Andrew Currie and their Neonatal Infection and Immunity Team have become the newest members of the Wesfarmers Centre of Vaccines and Infectious Diseases.

Research projects sharing in a $2.1 million funding boost will seek to translate research findings into changes that benefit patients and help the health system run more efficiently.

Researchers have found kids who experience repeat ear infections in infancy have a much higher risk of ongoing problems with ear infections in later childhood

As Head of Aboriginal Research Development at Telethon Kids, Glenn Pearson believes his work brings us closer to identifying the real and whole Australian story

Consumers and community members are invited to join us to provide input into our childhood infectious diseases research.

We identified several novel candidate genes which warrant further analysis in cohorts matched more precisely for clinical phenotypes.

Otitis media (OM) is a common disease in early childhood characterised by inflammation of the middle ear.

Otitis media (OM) starts within weeks of birth in almost all Indigenous infants living in remote areas of the Northern Territory (NT).

Our findings are in line with a number of epidemiological studies which show a positive association between breastfeeding and OM in early childhood