Melbourne Children’s Global Health launched at 10am Friday 14 December 2018.
Images, video overlay, two case studies (rotavirus vaccine and TB in adolescents) and backgrounder available. Melbourne Children’s Global Health initiative to take action for the: Two million children dying annually from pneumonia and diarrhoea 8 million new child and youth cases of TB each year Mental health and wellbeing of youth caught up in global unemployment, civic unrest,…
Melbourne Children’s Global Health is an initiative to improve the health of children and adolescents in disadvantaged populations globally through partnerships in research, public health, education and advocacy. The initiative has been created by Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, the University of Melbourne Department of Paediatrics, and the Royal Children’s Hospital under the auspices of the…
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Bio Farma, Indonesia’s national vaccine company, is completing a phase 1 trial of a new rotavirus vaccine invented in Melbourne and has started pilot manufacture of the vaccine. Licencing trials are next, followed hopefully by release of the new vaccine in 2021. The project is the culmination of a 42-year partnership between Melbourne and Gadjah…
In 2017, almost one million children fell ill and over 200,000 children under 15 died of tuberculosis, according to the latest WHO Roadmap. The report also identifies a previously underreported challenge, TB in adolescents. University of Melbourne researcher Ms Kathryn Snow has estimated that about 1.8 million young people develop TB every year comprising