SCHN Children’s Refugee Health Service provides advocacy, research, training, and clinical services to children with a refugee background and their families and the health professionals caring for them. It combines the two well-established multidisciplinary pediatric refugee health clinics in the Network, The Health Assessment for Refugee Kids (HARK) clinic at The Children’s Hospital at Westmead; and The Refugee Child Health Clinic at Sydney Children’s Hospital.
Partners
The Sydney Global Maternal and Child Health Network is pleased to partner with the following institutions and organisations.
The Coalition of Centres in Global Child Health
The Coalition of Centres in Global Child Health is a global network of expert individuals and academic centres and institutions that have explicitly expressed commitment to a collectively-developed set of principles and plans of advancing global child health.
The Sydney Children's Hospitals Network (SCHN)
The Sydney Children's Hospitals Network cares for thousands of children each year in its hospitals. The team of more than 5,000 staff across the Network, is committed to providing world-class paediatric health care in a family-focused, healing environment. Sick children have access to the best facilities, with speciality care available for children with conditions such as cancer, heart problems, severe burns, HIV/AIDS and children needing organ, bone marrow or cord blood transplants.
Kids Research (KR)
Kids Research is part of The Sydney Children's Hospitals Network. Kids Research is committed to better understanding the diseases of childhood and to discover innovative treatments to help children and young people live their healthiest lives.
The Sydney Children's Hospitals Network (SCHN) Children's Refugee Health Service
National Centre for Immunisation Research & Surveillance (NCIRS)
NCIRS is a research organisation that provides independent expert advice on all aspects of vaccine preventable diseases and social and other issues related to immunisation to inform policy and planning for immunisation services in Australia.
Cerebral Palsy Alliance
Cerebral Palsy Alliance help babies, children, teenagers and adults living with cerebral palsy and other neurological and physical disabilities lead the most comfortable, independent and inclusive lives possible.
Caring & Living As Neighbours (CLAN)
CLAN is dedicated to the dream that all children living with chronic health conditions in resource-poor countries of the world will enjoy a quality of life on par with that of their neighbours' children in wealthier countries.
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)
Médecins Sans Frontières is the world’s leading independent organisation for medical humanitarian aid. Every day 30,000 Médecins Sans Frontières field staff are providing assistance to people caught in crises around the world. They have offices in 19 countries supporting these teams, including their office in Sydney. Every year nearly two hundred Australians and New Zealanders are sent to and supported in the field by Médecins Sans Frontières Australia.
UNICEF
UNICEF works in 190 countries and territories to save children's lives, to defend their rights, and to help them fulfil their potential, from early childhood through adolescence.
Discipline of Child and Adolescent Health
The Discipline of Child and Adolescent Health within the University of Sydney Medical School, is located at The Children's Hospital at Westmead and provides the major focus in the hospital setting for medical research, teaching and innovations in postgraduate and undergraduate education.
The University of Sydney School of Public Health
The University of Sydney School of Public Health researchers, academics and graduates play a major role in shaping the future of healthcare in Australia and overseas. The School's public health programs are developed and taught by leading academics and practitioners addressing the major public health challenges facing communities now and into the future.
Office for Global Health
The Office for Global Health, part of the Sydney Medical School, works with the University of Sydney's Health Faculties to internationalise research undertaken, the experience of students and staff, and approaches to learning and teaching.
GlobalHOME
GlobalHOME is the global health student interest group at the University of Sydney. It is a not-for-profit association within the Faculty of Medicine that aims to provide a common ground for students, health professionals and academics who are interested in global health issues, and to inspire and provide opportunities for students to advocate for health equity globally.
Marie Bashir Institute
The Marie Bashir Institute is a virtual institute dedicated to tackling the health and socioeconomic consequences of emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases. The Institute is committed to research and knowledge exchange that will improve understanding of the complex interactions that fuel emergence and spread of infectious diseases, especially in the Asia-Pacific region.
Học Mãi Foundation
Học Mãi, the Australia Viêt Nam Medical Foundation, is a non-profit organisation which was established in 2001 to improve health outcomes through education and research in Viêt Nam. It is a foundation of the University of Sydney that brings together the collective health care knowledge and experience of Australia and Viêt Nam in an educational partnership.
Sydney Southeast Asia Centre (SSEAC)
The Sydney Southeast Asia Centre builds on the expertise of and facilitates collaborations between over 270 University of Sydney academics who specialise in Southeast Asia. The Centre fosters partnerships and collaboration between researchers and practitioners working on critical real-world Southeast Asia issues, such as economic and social reform, infectious diseases and the environment.
The Tuberculosis Centre of Research Excellence (TB-CRE)
The Tuberculosis Centre of Research Excellence is a interdisciplinary centre of research excellence funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council over 5 years. The Centre supports world-class research aimed to improve coordination between and strengthen existing research initiatives on public health interventions, epidemiological and basic science approaches to TB control. The next generation of Tuberculosis researchers will be fostered through the national and international collaborations of the centre.
Centre of Research Excellence in the Early Prevention of Obesity in Childhood (EPOCH CRE)
The Centre of Research Excellence in the Early Prevention of Obesity in Childhood brings together researchers, practitioners and policy-makers from Australia, New Zealand and England to work collaboratively on approaches to prevention of obesity in children aged 0 to 5 years.
NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Emerging Infectious Diseases (CREID)
The Centre of Research Excellence in Emerging Infectious Diseases aims to create a vibrant, multidisciplinary community of researchers, linked with public health laboratories and government agencies, working together to safeguard Australia and the region from emerging infectious disease threats. The Centre's vision is to improve public health outcomes by incorporating state-of-the-art, high-throughput and digital technologies into EID risk prediction and responses and developing an enabling practice and policy framework grounded in ethics research.
University College London (UCL) Institute for Global Health (IGH)
The University College London Institute for Global Health is a world-leading centre of research and teaching excellence in global health. Their vision is to collaborate across disciplines to find solutions to global health problems. The Institute believes there is no single solution to the world’s health problems and a cross-disciplinary approach is at the heart of their research and teaching.
